At the same time the Internal Revenue Service delayed or denied requests for tax-exempt status from hundreds of conservative non-profit groups, it was quietly restoring the tax-exempt status of an Islamist front group accused of collaborating with terrorists. In 2011, the IRS stripped the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) national office of its nonprofit status for failure to file annual tax reports as required by federal law. CAIR also solicited funds from Libya, Sudan and other terror-sponsoring foreign governments. “Given CAIR’s status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing case, this failure to comply with federal disclosure laws is all the more troubling,” U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, wrote the IRS in a request for investigation in 2011. CAIR’s terrorist ties run deep. The Justice Department lists it among U.S. front groups for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, and several CAIR officials have been convicted or deported on terrorism-related charges. At the same time as the IRS was demanding tea party and other patriot groups turn over donor rolls, membership lists, and contacts with political figures, among other things, before the agency would consider granting tax-exempt status to them, it reinstated Washington-based CAIR ‘s tax-exempt status despite years of delinquent tax filings. CAIR officials had met with officials inside the White House before the decision was made. wnd/2013/06/irs-exempts-terror-front-group-over-tea-party/
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:26:52 +0000
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