LA Times: 3 Out Of 3 leaders of CAIR agree, FBI is harassing mosque-goers

One of the more difficult aspects of covering Muslim Brotherhood in America activities is the stubborn refusal by members of the media to address even basic facts known, regarding the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Despite continuing to allow CAIR spokesmen to serve as representatives of the wider Muslim population, these representatives are never asked about CAIR’s acknowledged associations with HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the overwhelming evidence available from Holy Land Foundation trial documents. They decline to mention that CAIR is formally forbidden from working with the FBI because of it’s ties to HAMAS.

And, in cases like the recent story, “U.S. Muslim Leaders Say FBI Pressuring People to Become Informants“, they sometimes fail to even identify these spokesman as CAIR personnel. In this case, while the reporter, John M. Glionna identifies CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, and CAIR “Civil Rights” attorney Jennifer Wicks as sources, before citing “Orlando, Fla., attorney Hassan Shibly.” But Shibly is also CAIR, in fact, he is the Executive Director of CAIR’s Florida chapter, as is easily revealed by a simple google search of the name “Hassan Shibly.” It beggars belief that Glionna was not aware that Shibly, who he was presenting as a second corroborating source ,is in fact from the same organization as his other two sources. The LA Times must have reasonably concluded that quoting three CAIR employees about an issue being raised by CAIR and without any other corroboration from another organization would appear one-sided at best.

And they would be right.

Additionally problematic is the decision to treat CAIR as a legitimate civil rights organization which represents the wider Muslim community of the United States. Given previous evidence of the precipitous fall off in CAIR membership, its not entirely clear that CAIR can be said to accurately reflect the positions of the majority of American Muslims, nor that CAIR represents “U.S. Muslim Leaders” as the article insists. Nor is their “Civil rights” legal work without question as they currently face a lawsuit by Muslims clients who say they were defrauded by CAIR’s former civil rights “attorney” Morris Days, who was in fact not an attorney, and that CAIR then proceeded to cover up the fraud. (Full Disclosure: the plaintiffs are represented by David Yerushalmi, who also serves as CSP’s general counsel.)

Indeed in addition to targeting the FBI in an effort to prevent them from gathering information about possible terrorist recruitment, CAIR has also targeted fellow Muslims, who do seek law enforcement help in preventing their children from being indoctrinated and recruited for terror abroad.

All of these issues should have been relevant to the Los Angeles Times and their readership. But instead they have chosen to serve as stenographers for the Muslim Brotherhood yet again.