Cotton calls for non -profit status of CAIR revoked on alleged terrorist ties

Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Asks the internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke the non-profit status of a group for the defense of Muslims who, according to him, has links with terrorist groups, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the letter, Cotton notes that “in the greatest case of financing terrorism in the history of the United States (the Council for American-Islamic Relations) was listed as a member of the Palestine Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood”. CAIR has been listed as an unleashed cocoonspirator in the infamous case of terrorism financing of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). The organization then tried, without success, to have its name withdrawn.

The Ministry of Justice noted that HLF and five of its leaders had, while working together and with others, “provided material support for the Hamas movement”. In total, the groups provided Hamas about $ 12.4 million, According to the doj.

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) heads for a meeting with the Senate Republicans at the American Capitol on November 16, 2022, in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

HLF was convicted of “10 conspiracy leaders to provide and provide material support for an designated foreign terrorist organization; 11 conspiracy leaders to be provided, and the supply of funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and 10 conspiracy leaders to be engaged, and the laundromat commission.”

“The IRS has a broad being able to examine whether the operations of an entity align with its exempt objective. The status of tax exemption is a privilege, not a right, and it should not subsidize organizations with links to terrorism”, ” Cotton wrote.

A panel for the Internal Revenue Service is observed outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)

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CAIR characterized Cotton demand as “based on demystified conspiracy theories” and compared the Senator’s request to the IRS in the McCarthy era.

“We are an independent organization of American civil rights which has spent more than thirty years defending the Constitution, countering anti-Muslim fanaticism and opposing injustice here and abroad, including discrimination, hate crimes, terrorism, ethnic cleansing and genocide,” Cair said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The co-founder and executive director of American-Islamic Relations of the Council, Nihad Awad, speaks during the 16th Annual Convention for Palestine in the United States (American Muslims for Palestine)

The director of the Cair says he was “happy” in October. 7, Israel “is not entitled to self -defense”

“We have specifically condemned the attacks of October 7 against civilians, just as we condemn the current genocide in Gaza. This is called moral coherence. Senator Cotton should try it,” added the organization.

Cair was disowned by the Biden administration after the executive director of the organization seemed to rent the massacre of October 7 of Hamas. In November 2023, just a few weeks after the attacks, the national executive director of Cair Nihad Awad said that he was “happy to see” Palestinians “breaking the seat and throwing the chains of their own land”. In addition, in his remarks, Awad seemed to justify the attacks more, claiming that “the inhabitants of Gaza have the right to defend themselves” and that Israel does not.

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The New York Times quoted the spokesperson at the time, Andrew Bates.

THE Anti-Diffamation League (ADL) has criticized Awad’s recent remarks on the United States and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. The national executive director said that “Netanyahu calls for the blows. Trump claims to be in charge”. In addition, the ADL stressed that Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles Cair section, described the congress and the White House as “territories occupied by Israeli”.