US Muslim body: Another ‘spy’ confesses to links with far-right group
Council on American-Islamic Relations identifies “second mole”, a week after it fired its senior member for leaking confidential information to an anti-Muslim hate group.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), US’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has said it has identified a second “spy” working for and paid by an infamous anti-Muslim organisation, Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).
The “IPT spy has voluntarily come forward, confessed, and agreed to cooperate with us,” said CAIR on Tuesday, adding he was not part of the Muslim advocacy organisation but “was an active volunteer in a large mosque who was invited to national community meetings and events.”
“The individual has informed us that Steven Emerson paid him $3K per month to record prominent Muslim leaders; over $100K over 4 years,” CAIR said in a tweet.
Emerson, a notorious Islamophobe and the founder of IPT, has not commented on CAIR’s fresh allegations.
Last week, CAIR fired the head of its Ohio chapter over allegations he shared confidential information with IPT.
The rights body did not release the “second mole’s” name, saying it’s still investigating while alerting Muslim leaders and organisations the “IPT spy” had targeted.
CAIR urges co-opted insiders to confess
CAIR said the alleged spy went to the mosque leaders “before being confronted, confessed and sought forgiveness and agreed to cooperate.”
“This is what anyone who helped IPT or other hate groups should do. Come forward now. Don’t wait to be exposed. Do the right thing,” the group urged.
Citing “evidence” that it gathered last year, CAIR said the IPT was “communicating with and providing assistance to Israeli intelligence with the office of then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“One of Emerson’s goals, we’re told, was protecting the Israeli govt by undermining Muslims engaged in political and human rights activism.”
Emerson, has “a history of promoting falsified information and conspiracy theories about Islam and Muslims,” according to a Georgetown University research project on Islamophobia. Emerson is considered an anti-Muslim activist by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
SOURCE: https://www.trtworld.com/americas/us-muslim-body-another-spy-confesses-to-links-with-far-right-group-52870