By Wikipedia DETROIT — Hours before his arrest outside a popular Detroit-area mosque, a 63-year-old California man held court at a nearby sports bar, telling an…
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as America's largest Muslim civil liberties working with civil advocacy and human rights organizations. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. , with regional offices nationwide and in Canada. Through media relations, lobbying, and education, CAIR presents what it views as an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public, and seeks to empower the American Muslim community and encourage its social and political activism. Annual banquets, through which CAIR raises the majority of its funds, are attended by American politicians, statesmen, interfaith leaders, activists and media personalities. Critics of CAIR note that it was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which ended without any convictions in a mistrial. They also accuse it of being a front group for Hamas, being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee, and associating with antisemitism, and have raised concerns about the group's foreign Arab funding.
