New book gives an inside view of CAIR

The Investigative Project on Terror (IPT) reports on a new book about CAIR, based on six-months of insider access to the group. Among the findings in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America:

--The organization self-touted as "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group" has seen its membership plummet since 2000, and now has around only 5,000 members (of a total U.S. Muslim population of well over over two million.)

--Over 60% of its operating budget comes from Persian Gulf sources.  (Paul Sperry, co-author of the book, touched on this subject several years ago, writing about the Kuwaiti role in the purchase of CAIR's U.S. headquarters.)

--CAIR has actively worked against U.S. law enforcement agencies, by, in one case, coaching a mosque leader not to cooperate with the FBI.

CAIR's initial response to the book, rather than directly responding to its claims,  has been to publish a character assassination of one of the authors. For the time being, intelligence agencies have severed their relationship with the group in the wake of a recent terror-funding trial in which the group was listed as an unindited co-conspirator.  Nevertheless, as the IPT article notes, CAIR still has congressional supporters and a $2.7 million annual operating budget. Groups like IPT are active in educating policy makers and other Americans about CAIR and other Islamist threats.  Through education, together we can make informed decisions on how to address the problems currently confronting us.   "Muslim Mafia" is available at Amazon.com.