The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the leader of its Ohio chapter passed confidential information to an “anti-Muslim hate group.”
CAIR's statement said that last year its national office received"extensive and unprecedented information" about IPT as part of the organization's work combatting anti-Muslim groups. In these documents, CAIR said, it found that IPT"had spent years trying to infiltrate and spy upon prominent mosques and Muslim American organizations using 'moles' among their staff and volunteers."to the Columbus Dispatch and didn't immediately respond to BuzzFeed News.
IPT did not deny working with Iqbal or spying on CAIR in a statement to BuzzFeed News."While the Investigative Project on Terrorism has never and will never monitor the wider American Muslim community, it will not hesitate to uncover and publicly expose radical Islamist activity on American soil by groups like CAIR, which threaten our national security," the statement read.
The group did not respond to CAIR's allegation that Emerson and IPT were"communicating with and providing assistance to Israeli intelligence" about American Muslim organizations while Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister of Israel. When the national office saw that CAIR's Columbus, Ohio, chapter was one of IPT's targets, it hired an outside law firm and forensic investigator to determine whether the information was accurate and if Emerson's group had been able to infiltrate the organization. After months of investigation, the third-party team found evidence that Iqbal — and Iqbal alone — had been working with the group"for years.
"In the wake of Iqbal’s termination, the Columbus office of CAIR-Ohio has discovered suspicious purchases from ammunition and gun retailers made in recent weeks using a CAIR-Ohio credit card that Iqbal administered," CAIR-Ohio said. In its statement, the chapter said that on Tuesday a package containing parts for an AR-15 rifle was delivered to the Columbus office. Ohio law enforcement is investigating.
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