They were there to give CAIR more ammunition in its ongoing series of "reports" on the huge "anti-Muslim backlash" in the US. Meanwhile the FBI finds that for every Muslim that was the victim of a hate crime, seven Jews were. Funny thing is that every time there is Muslim violence (like that student who deliberately ran down a bunch of people with his SUV at a university while shouting Allah Akbar!) CAIR immediately issues another one of its "anti-Muslim backlash reports." (By the way, The Stiletto writes about CAIR a lot - if you use the search engine you can find the articles.)