The article I've linked to is titled CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment. It's disheartening to see how blind the
'establishment' can sometimes be. The article tells you all you need to know about CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Daniel Pipes, one of the co-authors, is a particularly well-known, distinguished student of Islamic current affairs. Some excerpts:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims’ civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims... But
there is another side to CAIR that has alarmed many people in positions
to know. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it.
Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.” Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois ) observes
that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with
groups that are suspect.” Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of
counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities
effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.” . . . Tashbih Sayyed of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance calls CAIR “the most accomplished fifth column” in the United States. And Stephen Schwartz of the Center on Islamic Pluralism writes that “CAIR
should be considered a foreign-based subversive organization,
comparable in the Islamist field to the Soviet-controlled Communist
Party, USA.” ... CAIR
has consistently shown itself to be on the wrong side of the war on
terrorism, protecting, defending, and supporting both accused and even
convicted radical Islamic terrorists.
Read the entire article. It sheds light on an organization that employs intimidation and deceit, but succeeds in fooling many.