Bismillah. Community update: a second IPT "spy" has voluntarily come forward, confessed and agreed to cooperate with us. He was not part of CAIR. He was an active volunteer in a large mosque who was invited to national community meetings & events. Details in the thread... 1/8
The individual has informed us that Steven Emerson paid him $3K per month to record prominent Muslim leaders; over $100K over 4 years. One of Emerson's goals, we're told, was protecting the Israeli govt by undermining Muslims engaged in political & human rights activism. 2/8
We are gathering and vetting additional information from this individual. We have also been directly alerting Muslim leaders and organizations he targeted. We will publicly release his name and additional information after we finish this process, God willing. 3/8
We also want to note that this person went to his masjid leaders before being confronted, confessed, sought forgiveness and agreed to cooperate. This is what anyone who helped IPT or other hate groups should do. Come forward now. Don't wait to be exposed. Do the right thing. 4/8
And ICYMI, here is some of the information we released last week about IPT. First, Emerson's abuse of his staff is part of the reason his people have turned on him. In one email, he literally used the subject line "to all of those f**king idiots who work for me." 5/8
Second, Emerson worked with Israeli intel officials, such as Yossi Kuperwasser and Ido Mizrahi from the office of then-PM Netanyahu. In one of these messages, Mizrahi asks IPT for information about Students for Justice in Palestine, an American college student group. 6/8
Third, here are just a few of the email interactions related to #RominIqbal and #SteveEmerson (email addresses and phone numbers redacted). Important to Iqbal and Emerson have not denied any of the allegations against them since this went public. 7/8
As we continue to unravel this plot in the coming days and weeks, we will keep the community updated, insha Allah. 8/8 #RominIqbal#CAIR#Ohio#StevenEmerson
To be clear, this second mole was not connected to, communicating with, or otherwise targeting CAIR. He's a completely separate, external mole. IPT was using him to monitor other Muslim orgs/leaders while using #RominIqbal against us. More info to come as soon as possible iA. 9/9
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Bismillah. Important news: we have disrupted an anti-Muslim hate group's effort to spy on Muslim American organizations, including our Ohio chapter. We thank God for exposing this plot to us and we thank God for protecting the community from harm. Details in this thread.... 1/13
Last year, we learned extensive info about the inner workings of the so-called Investigative Project on Terrorism. IPT is an anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate group founded by Steven Emerson, who largely faded from public view after a humiliating Fox News interview in 2015. 2/13
The evidence we received showed that Emerson’s hate group was flailing but active. Evidence indicated that IPT was monitoring speeches by Muslims & that Emerson was cursing, threatening and otherwise mistreating his staff for failing to produce enough Islamophobic content. 3/13
Today we are live tweeting the U.S. House's scheduled floor vote and anticipated approval of #HR5665, Rep. @Ilhan Omar and @RepSchakowsky's Combating International Islamophobia Act.
IA, one step closer to having a @StateDept Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia.
American Muslims are proud to see @RepAndreCarson "Dean of the Muslim Caucus" leading today's House floor proceedings, debate, and vote on the Rep. @Ilhan and Rep. @janschakowsky's Combating International Islamophobia Act (#HR5665).
Repeating the lie won't make it true, @JGreenblattADL. Here's the truth: you use false claims of antisemitism to smear Muslims-especially Muslim women, for some reason-who challenge support for Israeli apartheid. And your dishonesty undermines the fight against real antisemitism.
Here's more truth: @JGreenblattADL happily joined bigots like Benjamin Netanyahu, John Hagee and Robert Jeffress at Trump’s illegal opening of a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and called for defeating “Islamism,” a classic Islamophobic dog whistle.
Smearing a civil rights activist as a bigot after YOU took a selfie at an event with real bigots like Hagee and Netanyahu is hypocrisy,@JGreenblattADL. To make it worse: while you partied with the far right, Israeli snipers were killing Palestinian protesters & medics miles away.
Public controversy over the incident flared Wednesday after Bowe appeared at a news conference with leaders and staff attorney Amy Doukoure with the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan Chapter.
Doukoure and CAIR-MI are representing Bowe in her effort to collect a financial settlement.
The attorney said Friday no lawsuit has been filed at this point, but she and CAIR-MI have filed a “notice of claim,” which asks for a $250,000 settlement for Bowe and a change
Many refugees will come with little to nothing. So, CAIR, an organization that provides resources to the local Muslim community, is gathering items for a welcome kit with necessities and a hot meal.
"We have prayer rugs, prayer beads, a copy of the holy Quran," CAIR Oklahoma Executive Director Adam Soltani said. "Making sure they feel welcomed and making sure they understand their faith and their culture are very safe in a place like Oklahoma."
Yesterday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) launched its global Hilton Hotel boycott campaign with a press conference in Washington D.C. Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) has been honored to be part of this important initiative together with the World Uyghur Congress,
Uyghur Human Rights Project and more than 40 Coalition Partners.