Less than four days after a gunman held four Jews hostage inside a Texas synagogue in a doomed attempt to free a convicted terrorist, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thinks it is ready to renew its campaign to achieve the same objective.

"It's time to push back," CAIR's Dallas chapter director Faizan Syed wrote Wednesday afternoon. "The news coverage around Dr. Aafia Siddiqui over the last few days has been inaccurate, one sided, and made to paint a victim of the war on terror as a terrorist. The Free Dr. Aafia Campaign has developed a media and public resource guide to correct the false narrative."

Syed ended his post with the hashtags #FreeAafia #IAmAafia.

Siddiqui is a U.S.-educated Pakistani serving 86 years in prison for attempting to kill U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. She carried sodium cyanide and various other chemicals when she was arrested, along with documents in her handwriting that mentioned "a 'mass casualty attack' . . . NY City monuments" and "Dirty Bomb: Need few oz. radioactive material."

The U.S. personnel who tried to interview her were unaware that she was left unsecured behind a partition in the room. One of the Army personnel put his M4 rifle down. Siddiqui was able to grab it and open fire, prosecutors said. Her shots missed and she was wounded by return fire.

But CAIR and other Islamist groups in the United States say Siddiqui is innocent, a victim of torture during years of secret detention and someone incapable of the attack as described by the government and the witnesses present.

It turns out CAIR's commitment to Siddiqui's cause goes far beyond the seminars and protests that have been reported this week. CAIR is one of the driving forces behind the "Free Dr. Aafia Movement" and is directly raising money for her defense.

"The Free Dr. Aafia Movement is a joint project between CAIR-Texas Austin & DFW and the Elbially Law Firm who legally represents Dr. Aafia Siddiqui," the Free Dr. Aafia website, created in August, says. "Our goal is to create campaigns, build coalitions, and educate the world about Dr. Aafia so we can one day see her released from prison and returned to her children."

"Together we will Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!" a donation link says. "Funds are Collected Through CAIR-TX Austin & DFW for Disbursement."

"She carries our faith within her, and our faith has been assaulted when Aafia was assaulted," said Yousef Baig, who used to work in CAIR's Houston office. "Our religion, our book, our faith was desecrated when she was tortured. And our prophet is disappointed because we have not done enough for her."

It's one thing to ensure a defendant receives a fair trial in a court of law. It's quite another to reject what courts saw as "overwhelming" evidence about a woman who has family ties to al-Qaida.