Saratoga, NY - Today, House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, along with Senate Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent requesting the Treasury Department open an official investigation into the funding sources of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to determine if the organization is being funded or directed by Hamas or any other foreign terrorist group.
“CAIR’s founding and leadership raise longstanding concerns. Executive Director Nihad Awad and co-founder Omar Ahmad previously led the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which federal authorities identified as a propaganda front for Hamas,” wrote Chairwoman Stefanik and Chairman Cotton. “Both men attended a 1993 Philadelphia meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, where participants discussed creating a new front group to support Hamas while concealing its ties. CAIR was formed shortly thereafter.”
This letter follows Chairwoman Stefanik’s July oversight of City University of New York (CUNY) Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez and CUNY’s decision to hire Saly Abd Alla, a former employee of CAIR. Chairwoman Stefanik called the hire, “unacceptable to New York taxpayers.”
READ the letter HERE
