Protesters rally against anti-Shariah speakers at Oakland Community Center in Oakland, Iowa, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017
While all eyes were on the University of California, Berkeley, Thursday night to see if radical leftists could control their anger over the mere presence of a conservative speaker on campus, it was a gathering in a tiny Iowa town that attracted the attention of one of the left’s key allies – the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a massive terror-financing trial held in 2008, crashed a meeting in Oakland, Iowa – population 1,500 in rural Pottawattamie County.
Why such concern for what’s going on in a place so far off the beaten path?
Actually, it’s not unusual, not in post-Trump America.
CAIR has made it a top priority in the wake of President Trump’s surprising election victory to show up, challenge and cause
