Muslim Brotherhood

At Allen West-Sponsored Event, Group Paints Thousands Of Muslims As Terrorists

Ryan J. Reilly | July 25, 2011, 4:15PM

Rep. Allen West (R-FL)

A Florida-based "anti-terror" group took to the Capitol on Monday to warn Americans about "fifth column" Muslims who it said are pulling the strings of mainstream Muslim organizations and trying to take over the United States.

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Chip Cravaack

House Republican: Hypothetically, Let's Say CAIR Is A Terrorist Organization ... (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | March 10, 2011, 2:45PM

Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) continued on the theme that Reps. Peter King (R-NY) Frank Wolf (R-VA) started on earlier today at King's hearings on the "Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response" by attacking the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

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Yasir Afifi

Arab-American Student Sues FBI Over GPS Tracking Device

Ryan J. Reilly | March 3, 2011, 8:30AM

In a photo he posted online, Yasir Afifi holds the tracking device he found on his car

Yasir Afifi, the 20-year-old Arab-American student who was visited by FBI agents after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, sued Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller this week for allegedly violating his constitutional rights.

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Islam

Muslim Groups Push Back Against Increasing Hate Speech

Rachel Slajda | September 6, 2010, 9:29AM

The press conference announcing My Faith My Voice.

As anti-Muslim sentiment appears to be on the rise throughout the country, with high-profile protests against mosque construction and a handful of violent episodes against Muslims, Muslim groups are pushing back.

Last Monday, a group of young Muslim professionals from the D.C. area launched My Faith My Voice, a web site that encourages fellow Muslims to upload their own PSAs explaining that although they are Muslim, they're not terrorists.

"When we see our loyalty as Americans questioned, that's something we take very seriously," the group's lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, told TPM. "The point of the campaign is one of bridge building, reassurance, an invitation to listen to who we actually are ... that Americans of other faiths will lend an ear and listen."

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Muslim Mafia

Why Have The Feds Taken Interest In Muslim Mafia Case?

Justin Elliott | December 8, 2009, 10:10AM

Muslim Mafia Co-Author David Gaubatz

A string of mysterious sealed filings and orders in a case pitting a Islamic group against the authors of Muslim Mafia -- as well as a WorldNetDaily claim about an FBI intervention -- suggests that some aspect of the case has caught the attention of federal authorities.

The question in the case has become: who is under scrutiny by the Feds? Is it the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or could it be Dave Gaubatz, the man behind the WND-published book that purports to expose CAIR as a terrorist front?

CAIR sued Gaubatz and his son, Chris, over thousands of pages of documents taken while Chris was working as an intern at CAIR, undercover as a Muslim convert. WND says the book, which is partly based on the documents, shows CAIR is a terrorist front devoted to instituting "Saudi-style Islamic law" in America.

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Dave Gaubatz

Muslim Mafia Scribe: How I 'Toyed' With TPMmuckraker

Justin Elliott | November 24, 2009, 9:39AM

Dave Gaubatz (inset)

Muslim Mafia author Dave Gaubatz says in a new interview that his open call for a Winnebago, a pair of motorcycles, and $25,000 to conduct counterterrorism research in North Carolina was "bait" designed to draw attention away from real field research he was conducting elsewhere.

"While Elliot [sic] and like terrorist supporters were focused on my 'alleged' research in NC, I was hundreds of miles away conducting research in other locations," Gaubatz tells FrontPageMag, a Web publication edited by David Horowitz.

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Muslim Mafia

WND Editor: Muslim Mafia Scribe Is Victim Of 'Economic Terrorism' By CAIR

Justin Elliott | November 23, 2009, 4:29PM

Muslim Mafia Co-Author David Gaubatz and Joseph Farah

The head of the company that published Muslim Mafia says that the Council on American Islamic Relations is engaging in "economic terrorism" against the book's cash-strapped author, who can't afford to fight CAIR in court.

The comments by Joseph Farah, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily, parent company of WND Books, are buried in a profile of Martin Garbus, one of the lawyers defending Muslim Mafia author Dave Gaubatz, and his son, Chris, who went undercover as an intern at CAIR.

In response to Gaubatz's decision to accede to CAIR's demand that he return thousands of pages of documents and electronic files taken by Chris Gaubatz, Farah said:

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Muslim Mafia

Muslim Mafia Author Appears To Completely Fold In CAIR Lawsuit

Justin Elliott | November 20, 2009, 9:43AM

Muslim Mafia Co-Author David Gaubatz

The author of the book Muslim Mafia, which was based on documents taken by the author's son while he was posing as a Muslim intern at the Council on American Islamic Relations, has agreed to return all documents and recordings obtained during the time at CAIR, according to a draft consent order filed in court yesterday.

The draft order, agreed to by attorneys for CAIR as well as for Dave Gaubatz and his son Chris, was filed along with a joint motion asking the judge to enter the order.

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Muslim Mafia

Tom Coburn Joins Campaign Against Muslim Group

Justin Elliott | November 18, 2009, 10:53AM

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

Via Dave Weigel, it looks like Tom Coburn (R-OK) has become the first senator to cast his lot with the group of House Republicans pursuing a campaign against the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Though not explicitly invoked in a new letter to the IRS, the effort stems from purported revelations in the book Muslim Mafia, whose author recently made -- then retracted -- a call for a "backlash" against Muslims in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.

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Nidal Malik Hasan

Conservative Says Hasan Acted On Orders Of Muslim Brotherhood: What Do We Know?

Justin Elliott | November 6, 2009, 11:02AM

FBI agents outside the apartment of Major Nidal Malik Hasan (inset)

One conservative writer is already declaring -- without citing any evidence -- that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter who killed 13 at Fort Hood yesterday, was acting at the behest of the Muslim Brotherhood. So it's a good time to lay out what we do and don't know about the Fort Hood shooting case and the Army psychiatrist at the center of it.

In an interview with Frontpagemag, author Dave Gaubatz blames the Fort Hood killings on, among other Muslim groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He says that Hasan was carrying out "the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood." And he suggests that Hasan was sent out by radical Muslim leaders:

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Daniel Horowitz

Attorney From Michael Savage 'Book Of Hate' Koran Suit Tapped By Muslim Mafia Authors

Justin Elliott | November 4, 2009, 11:46AM

Daniel Horowitz and Michael Savage (inset)

Daniel Horowitz, the attorney who represented shock jock Michael Savage in his recent copyright infringement suit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is set to go up against CAIR again as counsel for the co-author of Muslim Mafia.

And, Horowitz told TPMmuckraker in a phone interview this morning, he's relishing the opportunity for Round Two with the Muslim civil rights group.

A judge ruled mostly in CAIR's favor yesterday in a suit seeking to block Dave Gaubatz from publishing documents taken by his son Chris, who went undercover as a Muslim intern at CAIR.

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Muslim Mafia

Judge Bars Muslim Mafia Authors From Publishing Docs Lifted From CAIR

Justin Elliott | November 4, 2009, 10:27AM

Muslim Mafia Co-Author David Gaubatz

A federal judge yesterday granted a request by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to block the authors of Muslim Mafia from publishing any of the documents taken by Chris Gaubatz while he was posing as an intern during a "counterintelligence operation" for the book.

Separately, Muslim Mafia author Dave Gaubatz and his son Chris are now being represented by the lawyer who represented shock jock Michael Savage in his 2007 copyright infringement suit against CAIR. We'll have more on this soon.

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