Great news — CAIR will be forced to open its books so US can see how deep the rot goes

Great news for America: Poisonous advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations is going to have to come clean about its donors. 

The good news comes thanks to a spectacularly failed move by CAIR to shut down Loria Saroya, a former employee who criticized the group for (among other things) lack of transparency around funding after she left it in 2018, via a defamation lawsuit.  

A judge has ruled that the group must open its books for discovery efforts in Saroya’s own countersuit. 

CAIR has long been suspected of entanglement with terror groups like Hamas. 

A 2008 federal case against terror front the Holy Land Foundation reportedly saw CAIR named as an unindicted co-conspirator and traced links between Hamas and CAIR leadership. (CAIR leaders have denied this.) 

But because it’s a 501(c3) group, it ordinarily wouldn’t have to reveal who’s giving it the big bucks that keep it in business. 

Now, thanks to Saroya’s persistence and the group’s own bungled legal ploy, America is going to find out just how deep those ties are and just who is signing the checks. 

Keep in mind that even without any terror ties, the group would be unthinkably vile. 

Co-founder and executive director Nihad Awad was caught celebrating the terrorist atrocities of Oct. 7 (which proved too much even for the Biden administration). 

And the group has long expressed that same warped view of the world, reserving most of its energy for attacking Israel even though the real violators of Muslim human rights are found in Iran, Syria and elsewhere. 

Plus, CAIR has been accused of fostering an abusive and misogynistic office culture — which Saroya reportedly fought back against before her exit from the group.  

It’s time to open the books and let CAIR’s prominent allies and everyone else see the truth.