And as terrorism expert Steve Emerson noted, since 2008, FBI policy has prohibited communicating with CAIR outside of criminal investigations. That decision was based on the Holyland Foundation evidence.
At the same trial, U.S. federal prosecutors testified that the Muslim American Society was an “overt branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America,” which was set up even before Hamas was founded. MAS co-founder Jamal Badawi was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holyland Foundation trial.