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2004-11-24 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tipper 2004-11-24 3:10:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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With all due respect to David Frum, he will have to directly address the question of whether CAIR as an organization, as a body, is "an unscrupulous, Islamist, extremist sympathetic group in Canada supporting terrorism." Here he's just cherry-picking bad acts of various individuals who are only associated, albeit prominently, with CAIR.

It would have been helpful if Frum would have specified what statements of his were cited in CAIR's lawsuit. If, for example, he wrote something like "CAIR supports terrorism", then much of what he writes here well might be excluded by a judge as irrelevant.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-24 9:13:26 AM|| 2004-11-24 9:13:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike, Smart people save their legal arguments for the court room and make their political arguments in the paper. People without an argument try to change the subject.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-24 9:21:36 AM|| 2004-11-24 9:21:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It would have been helpful if Frum would have specified what statements of his were cited in CAIR's lawsuit.

There is no lawsuit. Did you bother reading what Frum wrote?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-11-24 9:28:04 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-11-24 9:28:04 AM|| Front Page Top

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There is no lawsuit. Did you bother reading what Frum wrote?

Yes, I read it. There is a lawsuit.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-24 9:49:43 AM|| 2004-11-24 9:49:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If there's a lawsuit, it is not indicated in the article; to the contrary:

Lawyers for individuals and newspapers served with libel notices will normally urge their clients to avoid any comment on the matter--to avoid even any acknowledgement that they have been served. This is usually good advice. A notice of libel is not a lawsuit, but a warning of a lawsuit to come.

Provide links!

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-24 9:55:11 AM|| 2004-11-24 9:55:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 D'oh! MS - Esquire fails another test

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-24 10:08:45 AM|| 2004-11-24 10:08:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I know that theer is no such thing as guilt by association, as a Catholic I would not want to be associated with the molesters posing as clergy. However, I am reluctant to give any Islamic organization a pass after 9/11. They were too slow to denounce the hijackers and too quick to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon. If they wanted to help out this (an other western countries) they would be on Al Jiz telling the truth. but they won't beause it doesn't fit into their islamic agenda.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-11-24 2:28:27 PM|| 2004-11-24 2:28:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Is Mike S coming to the defense of CAIR? in addition to the UN and Kofi Annan?

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