Update on Minneapolis Daycare Centers!

Records Show Rampant Violations in Minneapolis Daycare Centers
Judicial Watch Uncovers NYC’s FEMA Spending Spree on Migrants
Judicial Watch Sues for Records of ‘Burn Bags’ in Secret FBI Facility
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Death of ‘Most Wanted’ Terrorist Marwan
Terrorist Front Group Forces Large School District to Observe Muslim Holiday

Records Show Rampant Violations in Minneapolis Daycare Centers

We received 458 pages of records from the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families in a Minnesota Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show a strong pattern of false billing, misstated attendance records, repeated licensing violations, grant fraud, and inadequate supervision of children across multiple daycare facilities in Minneapolis.

The number of violations and intentionally false reporting committed by these facilities is staggering.

We obtained the records in response to our December 2025 state FOIA request. They show that the Minnesota Department of Human Services conducted video surveillance comparisons, attendance record audits, and financial grant audits that identified fraudulent billing at multiple facilities with overpayments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars assessed, and in some cases, facilities continuing to operate and accrue new violations even after prior enforcement actions.

In August 2019, the Minnesota Department of Human Services issued a Correction Order to the Minnesota Child Care Center, citing staff qualification deficiencies: four staff persons did not have documentation on site showing they met the education and experience requirements for their teacher job classifications. The order states “This is a repeat licensing violation. The license holder was cited for a similar violation in a Correction Order dated April 25, 2017.”

Human Services in September 2019, ordered the Minnesota Child Care Center to pay a fine. The order states: “The Department of Human Services (DHS) is ordering you to pay a fine of $600 for three background study violations…. [Y]ou failed to request background studies for three staff persons before they began working in positions allowing direct contact with children served by your program.”

Human Services issued an Administrative Disqualification and Notice of Refusal to Pay against Minnesota Child Care Center in August 2022, finding the center “intentionally gave materially false information on billing forms and/or provided false attendance records.” State Child Care Assistance Program payments were immediately stopped, all authorizations were closed, and the facility and its principals were disqualified from receiving Child Care Assistance Program payments for three years.

A Department of Human Services investigation found significant discrepancies between video footage of children entering the building and its attendance records. In numerous 15-minute intervals across late 2018, attendance records showed children arriving when no children were observed on video.

The review also found that from 2018 through 2021, the center billed for multiple holidays that did not meet Child Care Assistance Program payment criteria, often claiming both holiday pay and regular attendance on the same day.

Analysis of six billing periods (November 19, 2018, through February 10, 2019) found that “361 of the 4,711 dates of [Child Care Assistance Program] billing reviewed, attendance records did not meet record keeping requirements” — including 187 missing sign-in times, 262 missing sign-out times, and 14 missing records entirely.

The center was informed:

What is the effect of being disqualified?

In addition to being disqualified from accepting [Child Care Assistance Program] payments for three years, a disqualification may also affect your ability to clear a background study, hold a child care license or certification, have direct contact or access to children in a child care setting, and/or participate in other Department of Human Services programs.

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In addition, because of the [Child Care Assistance Program]  violations, we estimate Minnesota Child Care Center Inc. was overpaid $24,480.38.

On August 22, 2022, a Notice of Overpayment was issued against Minnesota Child Care Center regarding the $24,480.38.

In October 2023, Minnesota Child Care Center was ordered to pay a fine. The order states: “The Department of Human Services (DHS) is ordering you to pay a fine of $1200 for six background study violations.” The six violations involved staff who had been working in direct contact positions without federally required enhanced background studies.

In April 2024, Human Services determined that Minnesota Child Care Center failed to complete a carpet replacement project for which it received a $9,990.40 Facility Revitalization Grant in June 2022. The facility received a 90% disbursement of $8,991.36 but failed to submit the required final report with before/after photos and expense documentation by the November 30, 2022, deadline. The Notice of Overpayment states:

You did not meet the requirements of the Facility Revitalization Grant for the March 2022 grant period as you failed to submit required project completion information and documentation by November 30, 2022. You will need to reimburse DHS for the recovery of the awarded grant money, totaling $8,991.36, for this grant period.

The Minnesota Child Care Center was issued a Correction Order in October 2024 that cited several violations. The order noted that this was a repeat offense that included:

Violation: Staff distribution requirements were not maintained. A teacher or assistant teacher did not directly supervise an aide.

An aide was working alone with three infant-aged children. A staff person with the qualifications of a teacher was required….

Two aide qualified individuals were alone with twelve school-aged children. A staff person with the qualifications of a teacher was required….

Repeat Licensing Violation: The license holder was cited for a similar violation in the following order(s): A Correction Order dated October 31, 2023.

In November 2024, Minnesota Child Care Center was ordered to pay a fine. The order states: “The Department of Human Services (DHS) is ordering you to pay a fine of $1600 for eight background study violations.”

Among the eight violations, one staff person (SP1) had a background study that expired December 31, 2022. After being ordered to remove SP1 in October 2023, the facility initiated a background study but failed to submit fingerprints within 14 days, causing the study to lapse. SP1 continued working at the center and was still present when Human Services returned in October 2024.

In October 2025, the state issued a separate Notice of Overpayment against Minnesota Child Care Center for $9,408 for billing irregularities during December 9, 2024, to January 5, 2025 — more than two years after the facility was disqualified from the program.

In December 2025, Minnesota Child Care Center was ordered “to pay a $200 fine for one background study violation.” The order documented a staff person (SP1), who had been employed since August 2001 and whose background study was repeatedly mishandled. An enhanced study was initiated in October 2023, but fingerprints were not submitted within 14 days, causing it to lapse. A second attempt was initiated in October 2024, but the same fingerprint submission failure occurred again. The facility had been informed three times in 2022 that enhanced studies were federally required.

In August 2022, Human Services disqualified Nuna Child Care Center (which shared the same address as Minnesota Child Care Center) from the Child Care Assistance Program after investigators found “materially false information on billing forms and/or provided false attendance records.”

Human Services cited numerous discrepancies between surveillance video of children entering the 312 W. Lake St. building and the center’s attendance records, with many instances where children were reported as arriving but were not observed on video. A review of six billing periods from November 2018 through February 2019 found:

For 1,250 of the 2,055 dates of [Child Care Assistance Program] billings reviewed, attendance records did not meet record keeping requirements for one or more of the following reasons:

• In 18 instances, no attendance record was provided;
• In 1,144 instances, the attendance record were missing a time in;
• In 1,187 instances, attendance records were missing a time out;
• Billing Record Does Not Match Attendance Record: 16
  • In 16 instances, children were billed in attendance (Regular), but attendance records show the children marked absent or vice versa.

Human Services also found improper holiday billing.

A Notice of Overpayment for $72,529.85 was issued against Nuna Child Care Center on August 22, 2022, for the period of November 19, 2018, through February 10, 2019.

In December 2024, Nuna Childcare Center was issued a Correction Order, documenting multiple supervision failures within a single afternoon visit. The order states:

Violation: Staff did not supervise the children at all times (School Age).

• At approximately 4:41 p.m., a child ran from the preschool classroom to the school age classroom alone….
• At approximately 5:05 p.m., a child ran from the preschool classroom to the school age classroom alone….
• At approximately 5:17 p.m., a teacher left three children alone in the classroom to grab something out of the lobby….

Three separate unsupervised-child incidents were observed within 36 minutes. This order was issued more than two years after Nuna’s 2022 Child Care Assistance Program disqualification, demonstrating continued operational deficiencies at the facility.

In April 2023, the state issued a Notice of Overpayment for $47,487.80 against Mini Childcare Center for the period of November 28, 2022, through December 25, 2022. The notice states:

1. In 709 instances, you failed to make attendance records available upon request.
2. In 26 instances, you failed to document the time a child was signed out of care.
3. In 27 instances, you submitted billing for children that indicated they were absent, when records indicate the children were actually present and receiving care.

Human Services issued a Notice of Overpayment in July 2024 for $76,000 against ABC Learning Center for four Financial Hardship Grants in 2022. The center was informed it failed to “meet the requirements of the Financial Hardship Grants … as the financial records did not reflect your claims on the Financial Hardship Grant applications. You will need to reimburse [Human Services] for the recovery of the awarded grant money …”

In November 2025, a Correction Order was issued against ABC Learning Center after inspectors observed children left without supervision. The order states:

At approximately 3:12 p.m., the [Dept of Children, Youth and Families] licensors observed seven school aged children unsupervised in the school age classroom while a staff person walked down to the toddler and preschool classroom.

Additional violations included menus that did not comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional requirements, missing written parental permissions for administering medicine, electrical outlets that were not tamper-proof or shielded, crib safety checks not conducted in 2024 and 2025, and staff training deficiencies.

In June 2020, a Notice of Overpayment for $69,364.55 was assessed against Quality Learning Center for the period of April 22, 2019, through June 16, 2019. The notice states:

• In 770 instances, attendance records were not available on request.
• In 194 instances, the attendance records did not match the billing records.
• In 349 instances, the times in and/or times out were missing from attendance records.
• In 10 instances, the attendance records did not contain legible times in and/or out.
• In 940 instances, the names on attendance records did not match names on billing records.

In June 2022, the state placed Quality Learning Center’s license on conditional status for two years, following a May 2022 inspection that found 27 violations — 10 of them repeat violations:

On May 9th and May 10th, 2022, [Department of Human Services] licensors conducted a licensing review and follow-up visit at your facility located at 1411 Nicollet Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403. As a result of this licensing visit, the DHS licensors determined that your program failed to comply with the laws and rules that apply to licensed child care centers, citing 27 violations. DHS has considered the nature, chronicity, and severity of these violations, as well as the health, safety, and rights of children served by the program

The order cites specific health and safety concerns including:

• Failure to comply with background study requirements (addressed in a separate Order to Pay a Fine on May 13, 2022)
• Failure to comply with requirements related to infant care including bottle labeling, items in a crib with an infant younger than one year of age, and crib safety inspections
• Failure to keep hazardous items away from children
• Failure to maintain adequate staff to child ratios
• Failure to comply with staff training requirements, including orientation, CPR, first aid, annual in-service, and child development and learning
• Failure to maintain children’s files
• Failure to maintain personnel records
• Failure to comply with handwashing requirements for children

In September 2022, the state issued a Correction Order against Sweet Angel Child Care, citing 25 licensing violations. The violations spanned staffing, supervision, recordkeeping, facility safety, training, infant care, and emergency preparedness requirements. Among other violations the order notes, “The DHS licensor observed the school age staff person leave sixteen children in the classroom unsupervised when another child left the classroom and ran out into the hallway.”

In May 2023, the state issued a Notice of Overpayment of $9,830.80 against Sweet Angel Child Care for the period of December 12, 2022, through January 8, 2023. The notice states: “In 184 instances, you failed to make attendance records available upon request.”

Judicial Watch Uncovers NYC’s FEMA Spending Spree on Migrants

We have the receipts – millions in taxpayer dollars were used by the Biden administration to provide virtually unlimited free housing and food to countless illegal aliens in New York City.

We received 710 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that details New York City spending millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds over just a few months to house and feed migrants.

We filed the May 2025 lawsuit after the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a component of Homeland Security, failed to respond to a February 2025 FOIA request for records of payments and funding allocations, internal communications and directives, as well as policy and procedural guidelines (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-01579)).

The records show that, during the Biden-Harris administration in Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024, New York City received $188 million from the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), a federal grant program administered by FEMA in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The records include invoices which show the federal funds were spent on around-the-clock security staffing at a converted Manhattan office building used as a migrant shelter, and daily meal delivery to migrants housed across 33 New York City hotels.

Arrow Security billed New York City Health and Hospital Corporation approximately $3 million for just two consecutive billing periods of security guard services at a single Manhattan building. Invoice No. 3035303 totaled $1,593,080.38 for 28 days (August 28 – September 24, 2023), and Invoice No. 3037366 totaled $1,401,765.56 for the following 35 days (September 25 – October 29, 2023), both at the Candler Building HERRC at 209-213 W 42nd Street for a daily security cost of approximately $47,538 at that location.

Whitsons Food Service invoiced $583,152.90 for a single week of meal delivery to migrants across 33 New York City hotel and shelter sites. Invoice No. CI2402968, dated March 22, 2024, covered breakfast, lunch, and dinner deliveries billed to the city’s Department of Homeless Services.

The 33 Homeland Security migrant shelter sites receiving Whitsons meal deliveries included multiple major hotel chains: Red Roof Inn, Ramada, Ramada Inn, Comfort Inn, Wingate by Wyndham (JFK Airport), Best Western (Kensington), Days Inn (Sunset Park), Super 8, Wyndham Garden LIC, Courtyard/Fairfield, and Hotel Archer — alongside independent properties such as Artel 535, the Bogart Hotel, Le Jolie, Brooklyn Motor Inn.

LIC COM LLC, a Long Island City food service commissary, billed $1,200,921.29 across ten heavily redacted invoices for food delivery at an undisclosed shelter site between March 2023 and May 2024. The invoices were submitted as part of a Fiscal Year 2023 SSP drawdown with each line item under $5,000. All descriptions, quantities, prices, customer identity, and delivery site are redacted under (b)(4), making it impossible to determine from the production what was delivered, to whom, or at what per-meal cost. The largest single invoice was $468,787.50 for 14 days in October 2023.

In February 2025, Cameron Hamilton, former acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,reportedly suspended payments to New York City to house migrants and said that staff who made the payments will be held accountable.

Judicial Watch Sues for Records of ‘Burn Bags’ in Secret FBI Facility

Perhaps Biden’s anti-Trump henchmen in the federal bureaucracy thought their shameful secrets would never see the light of day. We won’t rest until that theory is completely blown out of the water.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice concerning the discovery and contents of “burn bags” found in a secured Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington, DC (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-00538)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department failed to respond to a November 2025 FOIA request for records related to five burn bags discovered in Room 9582 SCIF at FBI headquarters, as described in an Opening Electronic Communication dated July 21, 2025, filed as Document 138-12 in Case No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN-WEF on November 3, 2025.

The FOIA request specifically asks for:

• Contents of the Burn Bags:

1. 1. a) All unclassified documents or releasable portions thereof, including any related to the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search, January 6 Capitol breach, Crossfire Hurricane investigation, or the Classified Appendix to the John Durham Special Counsel investigation.
   2. b) For classified documents: A Vaughn Index justifying the withholding or detailed list including titles, dates, classification levels, origin (e.g., agency/source), brief non-exempt descriptions, and specific exemption.

• Counterintelligence Operational Lead:

The original CIA referral to former FBI Director James Comey, dated September 7, 2016, containing intelligence related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign (found in a storage closet adjacent to the Director’s office and transported to Room 9582 SCIF). Include any unclassified summaries, logs, reports, transmittal records, or assessments of its authenticity/relevance.

• Related Contextual Records:

Any unclassified portions of the Director’s Advisory Team’s 60-day internal review (initiated on or about April 15, 2025), including badge access logs, IMD/SecD consultations, employee interview notes (from the three conflicting accounts mentioned), and assessments of Capstone/[National Archives and Records Administration] compliance.

In July 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly found records related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a previously undisclosed SCIF at FBI Headquarters. The records indicate the U.S. intelligence community had “credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.”

In an August 2, 2025, post to X, Patel stated: “We just uncovered burn bags/room filled with hidden Russia Gate files, including the Durham annex, and declassified them.”

In September 2020, then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee detailing the 2016 investigative referral:

On [September 7, 2016], U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.”

The Biden-Harris FBI was engaged in a cover-up. The number of smoking guns in these burn bags is likely substantial.

We have been instrumental in uncovering much of what the public knows about Crossfire Hurricane/Russiagate, which involved a long list of Democratic political figures, lawyers, and staffers who shaped the narrative around the Trump-Russia hoax.

In January 2026, we sued the Justice Department for fully unredacted records and previously withheld or missing portions of former Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane/Russiagate investigation.

In November 2025, we provided an in-depth recap of the Crossfire Hurricane/Russiagate debacle.

In May 2025, we sued the Justice Department for all records regarding the FBI, under then-Director James Comey, initiating an investigation of then-2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In October 2020,we uncovered heavily redacted email communications among top-level State Department officials and a U.S. ambassador expressing skepticism about reports by Christopher Steele’s London-based private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence. (Steele was the author of the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump dossier.) The emails show one assistant secretary of state saying some of Steele’s reports sound “extreme” and others “do not ring true,” while the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine called some of the Steele reports “flaky.”

In May 2020, we forced the declassification and release of the “electronic communication” used to launch Crossfire Hurricane, written by former FBI official Peter Strzok.

In April 2020, we obtained emails between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page, including an email dated January 10, 2017, in which Strzok said that the version of the dossier published by BuzzFeed was “identical” to the version given to the FBI by McCain and had “differences” from the dossier provided to the FBI by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and Mother Jones reporter David Corn. January 10, 2017, is the same day BuzzFeed published the anti-Trump dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele. The emails also show Strzok and other FBI agents mocking President Trump a few weeks before he was inaugurated. In addition, the emails revealed that Strzok communicated with then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about the “leak investigation” tied to the Clinton Foundation (the very leak in which McCabe was later implicated).

In September 2019, we released State Department records revealing that Steele had an extensive and close working relationship dating back to May of 2014 with high-ranking Obama State Department officials including Jonathan Winer and Victoria Nuland.

In August 2019, Judicial Watch obtained “302” report material from 2016 FBI interviews of Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position in December 2017. (A Form 302 is used by FBI agents to memorialize interviews they undertake during an investigation.) In a November 22, 2016, interview, Ohr said that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia were going to the Clinton Campaign, Jon Winer at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.” In a late September 2016 interview, Ohr described a person (likely Christopher Steele) as “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.” A report states that “Ohr knew that [Fusion GPS’s] Glen Simpson and others were talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.”

In July 2019, we obtained records revealing a September 2016 email exchange between then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Special Coordinator for Libya Jonathan Winer, a close associate of dossier author Christopher Steele, discussing a “face-to-face” meeting on a “Russian matter.”

In August 2018, the Justice Department admitted in a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the FISA spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.

In July 2018 we released records about FISA warrants targeting Page, which appeared to confirm that the FBI and DOJ misled the FISA court by withholding material information showing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the court to approve the FISA warrants targeting the Trump team.

Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Death of ‘Most Wanted’ Terrorist Marwan

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of War for records about Zulkifli Abdhir, also known as “Marwan,” a Malaysian terrorist on the FBI’s Most Wanted list who was killed in January 2015 during a Philippine Special Action Force raid (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:26-cv-00573)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the U.S. Special Operations Command, a component of the Department of War, failed to respond to a June 2025 FOIA request for intelligence, surveillance, and operational records concerning Marwan. The request includes reports on his activities and bomb-making, drone imagery and flight records related to the January 2015 “Oplan Exodus” operation. Communications between U.S. and Philippine forces are also requested, as well as records of U.S. training and logistical support, threat assessments, and documentation of coordination with the FBI regarding his identification and death confirmation, including DNA analysis.

Marwan was a high-profile international terrorist on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, which carried a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. In August 2007, he was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice Department for conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.

In January 2015, Marwan reportedly was killed during a raid by the Philippine National Police Special Action Force. Forty-four members of the police’s elite Special Action Force were also killed in the assault.

Our government continues to withhold details about an event that took place a decade ago. The American people deserve transparency about the circumstances surrounding this high-profile international terrorist who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Separately we filed a FOIA lawsuit earlier this month against the Justice Department for FBI records about Marwan’s death.

In June 2025 we filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department for records related to the killing of Marwan. The lawsuit asks for records about the collection, analysis, and chain of custody of a severed left index finger alleged to belong to Marwan, as well as photographs of his body and any related identification or forensic documentation.

Terrorist Front Group Forces Large School District to Observe Muslim Holiday

Islam seems to be on the rise in our country. Our Corruption Chronicles blog describes its latest advance.

A renowned terrorist front group that has managed to influence various areas of American public life has strong-armed Maryland’s largest public school district to give students the day off in observance of a Muslim religious holiday known as Eid al-Fitr. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical Muslim charity, reared its ugly head and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials as well as other legislators in the Old Line State caved in to its demands of recognizing Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on March 20. The district has around 156,500 students across 211 campuses and last month they lost five days of instruction to a severe winter storm. Officials designated March 20, a previously scheduled noninstructional day, as a snow makeup day and Muslim groups, led by CAIR, immediately waved the discrimination card and the Maryland public school district reversed course.

In one media report the head of the local CAIR chapter, Zainab Chaudry, called the snow makeup day on March 20 “troubling news” and compared it to striking other religious holidays such as Yom Kippur, Easter and Christmas. “We want the same dignity and response for the Muslim community as well,” she said in the story. In astatement issued a few days ago, CAIR celebrated the “swift advancement of emergency legislation” in the Maryland General Assembly to provide the school system with the flexibility to adjust the calendar. Eid al-Fitr is a sacred holiday for thousands of MCPS families, CAIR writes, and the State Department of Education’s prohibitive policies required a substantial effort to restore it on the calendar as a non-instructional day. “We extend our gratitude to Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor and the Montgomery County Board of Education for working diligently with the Montgomery County Delegation to find a solution that protects both instructional integrity and religious accommodation,” the statement reads. CAIR also acknowledged the chair delegate of the House Ways and Means Committee for “fast-tracking the legislation” that makes Eid al-Fitr a school holiday.

Alarmingly the group’s influence is gaining steam in American primary and secondary education which are foundational in shaping young minds. A few months ago Judicial Watch reported that CAIR is partnering with public schools in at least two states to help make them “more inclusive.” The pro-Hamas organization that represents itself as a human rights group is going after kids with a purported plan to bring inclusivity to public schools in Pennsylvania and Delaware. CAIR will use “An Educator’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices” to teach American children that jihad is an internal struggle to become a better person and not violence committed in the name of Islam. The guide also asserts that the oppression of Muslim women “is not related to their adherence to Islam but rather tied to customs and traditions.” Another educational guide that will be utilized is titled “Remembering and Reflecting: Teaching September 11, 2001 in Diverse Classrooms” and directs teachers not to use what it calls “inaccurate and inflammatory” terms like Islamic terrorists, jihadists or radical Islamic terrorists to avoid validating the claims of the 9/11 attackers by associating their crimes with Islam and Muslims. When covering topics—like Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq war and Afghanistan invasion—related to the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks the guide says to include discussion of the bigotry and hate crimes against Muslims and Arabs.

It is a worrisome movement considering CAIR is a terrorist front group that was named as a co-conspirator in a federal terror-finance case involving the Hamas front group Holy Land Foundation. CAIR was founded in 1994 by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber) who ran the American propaganda wing of Hamas, known then as the Islamic Association for Palestine. The Obama administration allowed CAIR to transform the way U.S. law enforcement conducts anti-terrorism training by permitting it to bully agencies at the local, state, and federal level to alter materials determined to be discriminatory against Muslims. This includes getting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to purge anti-terrorism training curricula of material coined “offensive” to Muslims. Judicial Watch uncovered that scandal, obtained the FBI records and published an in-depth report documenting Islamist measures and influence operations targeting anti-terrorism training in this country. CAIR also got the U.S. military and local police departments to eliminate anti-terrorism training materials and instructors it deemed anti-Muslim. Nearly two decades ago Judicial Watch published a special reportchronicling how radical Muslim nonprofits—including CAIR—operate in the United States as mainstream humanitarian charities.

Until next week,

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