The Council on American Islamic Relations, unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial, have launched another scurrilous, distorted attack on Rudy Giuliani and Daniel Pipes. As usual, they’re using PRNewsWire, a paid press release service, to do it. I wonder if PRNewsWire has any provisions in their terms of service prohibiting personal attacks and libel?

CAIR: Giuliani Advisor Supports Terror Group.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to drop a campaign advisor who offers rhetorical support to a group designated as “terrorist” by the U.S. government.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Daniel Pipes, who recently signed on to Giuliani’s campaign as a foreign policy advisor, is a vocal supporter of the terror group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Earlier this year, Pipes even participated in a foreign rally for MEK leader Maryam Rajavi.

MEK has been designated as a “foreign terrorist organization” since 1997. In 2003, that designation was amended to include the group’s aliases - the National Council of Resistance (NCR) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Pipes, who is regarded by Muslims and other observers as one of America’s leading Islamophobes, also has a long history of hostility to the American Muslim community and to the protection of civil liberties.

In 2001, Pipes claimed the “presence” and “enfranchisement” of American Muslims present “true dangers to American Jews.” He recently renewed a call to “raze” Palestinian villages from which anti-Israeli attacks are launched.