State Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, added language to the resolution stating it would “have no effect until the United States Justice Department makes a determination that CAIR has been involved in or supported any terrorist activity.” Hamas-linked CAIR’s Corey Saylor then whined: “That language makes it clear that the resolution is intended as a political smear because it has no effect. If a determination is made that an institution was involved in terror activity, the legislature would not need to tell its law enforcement to not be involved with them.”

The fallacy in Saylor’s argument is that he doesn’t take into account the possibility that no determination has been made that Hamas-linked CAIR was involved in terrorist activity for reasons that have nothing to do with Hamas-linked CAIR’s guilt or lack thereof. It appears that the Obama administration scuttled a pending indictment of Hamas-linked CAIR for reasons that it has never disclosed.

Also, there is terrorist activity and then there is the enabling of terror activity, by protesting against counter-terror initiatives and trying to get them shut down, smearing and defaming foes of jihad terror, etc. — activities in which Hamas-linked CAIR routinely engages. Given the general denial and willful ignorance regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and the universal focus of government and law enforcement on violent activity as the sole problem, along with the universal determination to ignore the motivating ideology that fuels that violence and the attempts by Islamic supremacist groups to remove obstacles to jihad terror, Hamas-linked CAIR has been able to flourish and remain the mainstream media’s go-to source for all matters Islamic. But that doesn’t make it any less odious a group. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) A California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and a Florida chapter distributed pamphlets with the same message. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates.

The Louisiana house has done the right thing.

“Louisiana house votes to cut state ties with Muslim group,” by Kellan Howell, Circa News, June 6, 2016: