Who is funding the Council on American-Islamic Relations? It’s a question that has loomed large over CAIR since its scandal-shaded founding in 1994 by leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine, an organization convicted of providing material support in the United States for Hamas terrorists abroad.

CAIR has always kept its sources of financial support close to its chest. Last month, we were provided with the latest example when the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group decided it was preferable to settle a defamation lawsuit rather than open the books on its backers.