Through a Window, Darkly By R. John Matthies

If Joseph Kaufman is correct, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) must be blacklisted immediately.

Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate (AAH), has claimed that ICNA “is the American arm,” or stateside mirror, of the main Islamist organization of Pakistan, the Jamaat-e Islami (JI). To make his point, Kaufman rallied a group of protestors outside ICNA’s 32^nd annual convention in Hartford last month, demanding that the U.S. government freeze the group’s accounts and place JI on the State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).

Charges of this sort are nothing new: As recently as 2004, the Senate Finance Committee requested the IRS provide information on ICNA and another two dozen Muslim organizations as an investigation into “terrorist financing networks.” But committee chairman Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) reported he had found nothing “alarming enough” to warrant further investigation, and the government closed its investigation in November 2005.

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