Sixteen likely candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 have endorsed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization identified by the Justice Department as an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood linked to pro-Hamas operations in the U.S. The information can be found in CAIR’s own lists of supporters and a list of 100 pro-CAIR members of Congress released by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. CAIR and other Islamist groups use quotes from supporters, many of which presumably are unaware of the group’s background, to present itself as an authoritative leader of the Muslim-American community. The statements are essential…