And just think, these same groups (CAIR, MPAC, ISNA) are now helping the FBI with their counter terror training.
Via IPT:
The most powerful oppressors of liberal Muslims in modern times aren’t Arab dictators or armies, according to Essam Abdallah, an Egyptian liberal intellectual. Abdallah, who teaches at Ain Shams University in Cairo, writes that the main threats today emanate from “Islamist lobbies” such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).
Months into the “Arab Spring” revolutions that swept across the Middle East last year, it became apparent “that the Western powers, and the Obama Administration have put their support behind the new authoritarians” of the Middle East, Abdallah writes. Islamists like the Ennadha Party in Tunisia, the Muslim Brotherhood, and some members of Libya’s ruling Transitional National Council “have been systematically supported by Washington at the expense of real liberal and secular forces.”
In Washington, the two main forces of the “Islamist lobby” are “Muslim Brotherhood [Ikhwan] fronts” (which Abdallah defines as CAIR, MPAC and the Islamic Society of North America) and a “pro-Iranian lobby” spearheaded by NIAC.
Since the early 1990s, CAIR and its allies “have attacked Copts, Southern Sudanese, Lebanese, Syrian reformers, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Muslim dissidents in the United States,” he writes. “The Ikhwan of America demonized any publication, book, article, or interview in the national media or local press raising the issue of secular freedoms in the Middle East.”