(Columbus Dispatch) Romin Iqbal, a former leader of a Columbus Muslim advocacy group, had been sending confidential information to an anti-Muslim group since at least 2008, national Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials said Thursday morning.
During a media call, the national officials showed emails from Iqbal to Steven Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). Officials said Iqbal has been sharing information consistently since 2008 and maybe before.
Iqbal, 45, was fired on Tuesday from his role as the executive director of the CAIR-Ohio office, which covers Columbus and Cincinnati. He worked out of the Columbus office, in Hilliard, since 2006 and was its executive director since 2018.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of CAIR’s national office in Washington, D.C., showed screenshots of emails from Iqbal to Emerson regarding national meetings of CAIR.
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