What good could come from the deception of a perceived lack of support?
“What good could come from the deception of a perceived lack of support?”
It takes muslims off the membership lists, if the list subjected them to scrutiny.
It makes the organization seem less important. Then it can behave more like a Trojan Horse.
Well, for one, it allows 'non' members to go on with the same crap they were busy with previously but without the nagging eye of government or neighbors being on them quite so much.
It also allows CAIR, as has been noted, to appear to be only a tiny little blip of an organization and not possibly the nasty conspirator that current court filings indicate it to be...or the beast most of us believe it to be.
Do not expect behavior, beliefs, or plans to have changed one bit - just gone to another non-profit, another form of coordination, and/or one less level of management above the loci.