Steve Emerson unloads on another whitewash piece in the New York Times, this time about Muslim Brotherhood front group ISNA and their recent conference: MacFarquhar Strikes Again.

Another New York Times article by Neil MacFarquhar on an Islamist group in America means another complete whitewash.

In his latest effort (Abandon Stereotypes, Muslims in America Say) in what has become a disturbing trend, MacFarquhar covered the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention over Labor Day Weekend. In his article, MacFarquhar not only gives a free pass to Islamists, but at the same time dismisses legitimate criticism of the Department of Justice’s presence at the conference (which seems especially inappropriate, and newsworthy, when it is considered that ISNA has been named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Hamas fundraising trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)).

In the process, MacFarquhar completely ignores damning information about ISNA that came out during trial, including such things as its foundations in the Muslim Brotherhood, and its multiple financial contributions to Hamas through its subsidiary, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).

Furthermore, the article is tantamount to a hit piece against Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Rep. Sue Myrick. MacFarquhar allows ISNA keynote speaker, Rep. Keith Ellison, to attack his colleagues for a letter they wrote challenging the DOJ’s decision to officially participate in the ISNA conference. According to the Times, Ellison characterized the letter as “ill informed and typical of bigoted attacks that other minorities have suffered.” Yet Hoekstra and Myrick never criticized Islam or minorities. Rather, they criticized ISNA as an organization, a particular Muslim Brotherhood front group with a long and documented history of support for terrorism. And this, of course, is the very reason ISNA ended up on the list of un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF trial in the first place.

MacFarquhar and Ellison have themselves conspired to engage in one of the Islamists’ oldest tricks in the book, and a favorite of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), conflating radical organizations with the entire religion of Islam, which is dishonest in the extreme, and only serves to hurt decent American Muslims.

For Ellison to make these outrageous slurs on the heels of speaking at a Muslim Brotherhood conference, and after previously speaking at a MAS-ICNA conference, notorious for its ultra-radical and violent (just a sampling) speakers and platforms, is even more egregious.