A behind-the-scenes controversy has broken out among Muslim American leaders over a coalition of Muslim organizations’ threat to cut off contact with the FBI because of what it calls the agency’s “McCarthy-era” tactics.

On October 22, 2009, NorthJersey.com published a demonstrably false claim regarding the contents of “Muslim Mafia.”

Last week a conglomerate of minority interest groups called the Congressional Tri-Caucus — consisting of the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus and the Asian Pacific American Caucus — held a press conference to condemn the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus for holding a press conference to condemn the terrorist front group Council on American-Islamic Relations.