Oklahoma feels the effect after the FBI cuts ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Oklahoma City Division James Finch told our partners at News9.com that CAIR's national leadership has alleged affiliations to terrorist groups.

"We were instructed, we being the 56 FBI field offices, to sever formal relations with CAIR," Finch says. 

Oklahoma Imam Imad Enchassi says the FBI's decision has in some ways strained the Muslim community's relationship with the local FBI.

Enchassi says, "It's not as good as it could be."

Enhassi says the Muslim community is getting more hate mail now than it did after nine-eleven. He attributes that to the legal battle to ban Sharia Law.

"Are Muslims worried and scared and so forth and so on? Absolutely," Enchassi says.

Finch says local FBI agents have worked hard to keep the lines of communication open.

He says, "I've explained to the members of the Muslim communmity that those things going on in Washington should not negatively impact on the good relations we're established or developed here in Oklahoma City."

Enchassi says leaders of the Muslim community meet on a regular basis with local FBI officials to try to have a good working relationship between them.

He says, "They of course have a mandate from D.C.  and we have a mandate by our faith to reach out to local, state and federal agents in any manner that would affect our community."

FBI officials say, even though they don't have a working relationship with CAIR, they will investigate any complaints filed by the group.