(Columbus Dispatch) The Ohio chapter of a national Muslim-American advocacy and civil rights group announced on Tuesday that its director was working with a national anti-Muslim group and had been for years.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy and civil rights organization, announced that it fired Romin Iqbal, its executive director who has been with the organization since 2006, for allegedly leaking confidential information to an anti-Muslim group.
For several years, Iqbal, the executive and legal director of CAIR-Ohio, has been recording network meetings and sharing information regarding CAIR’s national advocacy work with the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a known anti-Muslim group, according to a Tuesday press release from the organization’s Ohio chapter.
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