I have been investigating CAIR for 22 years, and I can tell you unequivocally that Elise Stefanik is correct and CAIR must be designated a terrorist organization.

In October 2003, when I walked up to the front door of my mosque in Morgantown, W.V., an Egyptian American elder told me "Sister, take the backdoor." He was practicing a regressive interpretation of Islam that defines two of three mosques in America, throwing women into back halls, basements and balconies, judging us too sexy to be seen by men. 

I called the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to defend the civil rights of Muslims. A Muslim convert, Ibrahim Hooper, its cofounder and spokesman, laughed at me, as he protested at the French Embassy, opposing a ban on hijabs in France, and he said: "You need to find another mosque."