{"id":540,"date":"2009-11-30T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?page_id=540"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:24:31","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?page_id=540","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview of Prior Research
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Since CAIR’s inception, American investigative journalists such as Steven Emerson<\/a> (Investigative Project on Terrorism<\/a>) and scholars such as Daniel Pipes<\/a> (Middle East Forum<\/a>) have followed CAIR’s activities and attempted to expose them to the public, media and policymakers.<\/p>\n

After 9\/11 this group of investigative reporters grew to include numerous online journalists.\u00a0 Leading investigators were Joe Kaufman (CAIR Watch<\/a>), Andrew Whitehead (Anti-CAIR<\/a>), Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch<\/a>), and the team of experts at the NEFA Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By 2007 this growing group of researchers expanded to include the Department of Justice prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial<\/a>.\u00a0 Adding their voices were radio journalists such as Michael Savage<\/a> and a growing group of lawyers including Daniel Horowitz<\/a>, David Yerushalmi<\/a>, the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum<\/a>, the Thomas More Law Center<\/a> and Reed Rubinstein, whose 2006 victory against CAIR<\/a> in the Andrew Whitehead case set the stage for further legal investigation.<\/p>\n