[Excerpt:  "A 1991 internal memo to Palestine Committee members reveals that members of the committee intended to further the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals “on the American front.” Mustapha appeared on the list due to his positions with HLF and Hamas’ U.S. propaganda arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)."]

To that end, read her AP piece linked below. While she parrots CAIR’s talking points from CAIR’s lawsuit, Tareen provides the reader with no background on the unindicted co-conspirator, terror-linked “group” CAIR. She claims to have attempted to contact the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and may well have, but she failed to provide any of IPT’s readily and publicly available information on the ousted Muslim chaplain Kifah Mustapha.

Group sues Ill. police over Muslim chaplain flap | By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

CHICAGO — A Muslim advocacy group filed a federal discrimination lawsuit Monday over an Illinois State Police decision to revoke the appointment of the agency’s first Muslim chaplain.

Kifah Mustapha, a Chicago-area imam, was named a chaplain in December along with chaplains of other faiths. He underwent training, passed a background check and was issued state identification. But shortly after, the appointment was criticized by the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, which said Mustapha was a “radical fundraiser” and alleged he had links to Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Mustapha hasn’t been charged with any crimes and denied wrongdoing.

According to the lawsuit filed on his behalf by the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago office, Mustapha was then told by Illinois State Police that he had passed only a preliminary background check and another should have been conducted before the training. Mustapha was asked to submit paperwork for another check.

In June, the police department revoked his appointment, citing only information revealed during a background check.

According to the lawsuit, Mustapha was told by a police employee that articles by the investigative think tank prompted the second background check.

The lawsuit claims the think tank is known for “anti-Muslim views” and alleges religious, national origin and racial discrimination on the part of police. Mustapha is a Lebanese Muslim of Palestinian descent. It also alleges Mustapha was denied his First Amendment right to freedom of association, which prohibits the government from imposing guilt by association.

Read it all to comprehend the full scope of potential bias. Here is what IPT has readily available on their website, which we shared with you back in January, and which Tareen neglected to share with her readers.

Mustapha’s name appears on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) Hamas financing trial, which ended with sweeping convictions in November of 2008. On this list he is identified as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. According to the indictment in the HLF trial, the “Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamic fundamentalist organization” that is “committed to the globalization of Islam through social engineering and violent jihad.” It created the Palestine Committee with a “designed purpose to support HAMAS” politically and financially.

A 1991 internal memo to Palestine Committee members reveals that members of the committee intended to further the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals “on the American front.” Mustapha appeared on the list due to his positions with HLF and Hamas’ U.S. propaganda arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP).

The IAP also was a component in the Palestine Committee’s Hamas-support network.

In a deposition for the civil litigation Boim v. Quranic Literacy Institute Kifah Mustapha explained that he was a “registered agent for HLF in Illinois” from the mid 1990s until 2001 when HLF’s assets were frozen. During this time Mustapha raised money for HLF.

During the deposition Mustapha also described himself as a former member of a volunteer committee for the IAP beginning in the early 1990s. As a volunteer, he “distributed flyers” and helped prepare for “festivals or conventions.” Those meetings often featured incendiary rhetoric and skits portraying Hamas violence against Israelis. Additionally Mustapha said that he donated money to HLF and “maybe” IAP.

In addition to his work with the HLF and IAP, Mustapha has helped raise money for other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front groups. Mustapha has raised money for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is under fire for its origins in the IAP and is also listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial. As recently as March of 2009, at a Dearborn, Michigan CAIR event, Mustapha helped raise $130,000 for CAIR. He also helped raise over $150,000 at a 2007 CAIR Chicago fundraiser. He has also raised money for the Muslim American Society (MAS) during a 2005 Chicago event.