Congress finally gets the message.

And all it took was thousands of letters, phone calls and emails from average American citizens.

A leading member of the House of Representatives is asking the FBI to explain why it did not notify Congress that it had cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as revealed by FOXNews.com last week. And several lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to "think twice" before meeting with the Islamic advocacy group, which the FBI considers a front for Islamic radicals.

Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf sent a letter to the FBI's assistant director of counterterrorism on Monday, raising questions about CAIR in light of the FOX News report.

"Has the FBI severed ties with CAIR? If so, how is the FBI planning to formally notify members of Congress and other government officials of this decision?" read the Republican congressman's letter, which pushed the bureau for word of its current connections with the group -- and asked whether CAIR's Washington-based lobbyists are receiving money from overseas.

View Rep. Frank Wolf's letter here.

FOXNews.com reported last week that the FBI had severed its once-close ties with CAIR as evidence mounted of its links to a support network for Hamas, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.

After CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror financing trial -- and after a special agent testified that CAIR was a front for Muslim radicals working in the U.S. -- local chapters of CAIR were shunned by the bureau under direct orders from FBI headquarters in Washington.

Until the ban was issued last fall, CAIR gave training sessions for FBI agents and was used as a liaison with the American Muslim community. In Congress, the organization continues its lobbying activities.

Read the whole story here.

It wasn't just the FoxNews report. It was hundreds of citizens in action against CAIR. It was everyone who believes in the truth and is willing to expose CAIR for what it really is.