Ignoring members of a Muslim-reform movement, the White House invited an executive of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to a little-noticed meeting, even though CAIR has been very public in representing family members of the alleged shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack and was founded as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, an expert says.
CAIR has blamed the San Bernardino attack on American foreign policy, and the meeting, which did not include representation from the moderate Muslim Reform Movement, was about battling religious discrimination, according to terrorism expert Steve Emerson.
In an email to WND, Emerson said the White House had invited Hassan Shibly to represent the American Muslim community at a meeting on combating religious discrimination.
Shibly is the chief executive director of CAIR in Florida.
CAIR, headquartered in Washington, D.C., describes itself as a Muslim civil rights group, but since 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has barred any outreach with CAIR officials because of its Muslim Brotherhood ties.
"Why would the White House include CAIR when FBI policy is to avoid the group?" Emerson asked.
Emerson, who heads the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, said his group received an email from the White House saying that "CAIR state chapter representatives have been included in broad meetings."
"The meeting's focus is understandable," Emerson said, "but the inclusion of a prominent CAIR official serves only to enhance the status of a group with documented ties to a terrorist financing network."
Emerson is referring to CAIR being named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-finance case against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation and its former officials.
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