Is CAIR, the nation’s leading Muslim civil rights group, funded by foreign governments and terrorists? Thanks to a recent court ruling, we’re about to find out.

From The New York Post. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against a former employee completely backfired.

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US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled Monday that CAIR’s donors, funding sources — potentially including foreign ones — and any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of former chapter leader Lori Saroya’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.

Saroya filed a federal defamation complaint against CAIR in January after the group dropped its own lawsuit against the former employee, which accused her of embarking on a “defamation campaign” against the organization, including by implying that CAIR is funded by foreign governments and terrorist organizations.

CAIR alleged that Saroya’s statements — posted on social media, in comment sections and emailed to the group’s supporters — damaged the organization’s ability to fundraise and build partnerships, but it ultimately dropped the lawsuit in January 2022 over fears that Saroya’s legal team would “demand the names of CAIR supporters who have donated to us.” …

Federal tax filings show that CAIR received more than $5 million in grants and charitable contributions in both 2021 and 2022.

As a tax-exempt 501(3) nonprofit organization, CAIR is not typically required to reveal information about the identity of its donors.

A September 2013 Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report on CAIR noted that evidence obtained during a 2008 federal case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development – a Muslim charity organization in the US found to have funneled millions of dollars to the Hamas terror group – “linked CAIR leaders to Hamas, a specially designated terrorist organization, and CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.” …

More recently, the White House cut ties with CAIR last year after the group’s co-founder, Nihad Awad, said he was “happy” to witness Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on Oct 7. …

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