The co-founder of a Judeo-Christian law firm says a radical Muslim Brotherhood front group continues to be treated with deference by the Obama administration.
The Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, has been busy lately pumping out the propaganda, including a report called “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States.”
Among the groups it targeted was the American Freedom Law Center as an organization “dedicated to promoting anti-Islam prejudice in America.”
David Yerushalmi is co-founder and senior counsel at the AFLC. He says CAIR is upset that they have uncovered evidence of the Muslim group’s money-laundering operation.
“We’ve been of course identified as an Islamophobic hate group for some time,” says Yerushalmi. “In the course of separate federal lawsuits involving CAIR we’ve uncovered the fact that, in effect, they’re simply a criminal money-laundering operation.”
On its website, AFLC alleges that CAIR attempted tohide millions of dollarsof funding from the Middle East to avoid reporting the gifts to the IRS as required by law for a non-profit.
AFLC also alleges CAIR defrauded several clients by failing to give them the legal representation they were promised, fraud that included using non-attorneys posing as lawyers. AFLC is representing five of the former CAIR clients, including three Muslims.
Yerushalmi says while the IRS has gone out of its way to intimidate and harass conservative groups about their tax exempt status, CAIR’s application was quickly approved.
“The IRS knew that CAIR had not filed any tax returns for three consecutive years – hid money’s coming in. They knew that,” says Yerushalmi. “And yet the IRS gave the CAIR Foundation a C-3 status back in 2011, exactly when it was denying Tea Party groups and pro-Israel groups for no reason.”
Yerushalmi says despite evidence of money laundering, the Justice Department has refused to file criminal charges against CAIR.