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| CAIR Backs Down From Suit Against Anti-CAIR |
| 2006-04-21 |
| In a stunning setback, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ defamation suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has been dismissed with prejudice. The Anti-CAIR website, www.anti-cair-net.org, reports a “mutually agreeable settlement,” the terms of which are confidential. However, Whitehead notes that he issued no public apology to CAIR, made no retractions or corrections, and left the Anti-CAIR website unchanged, so that it continues to post the statements that triggered CAIR’s suit. Specifically, CAIR had complained about Whitehead calling it a “terrorist supporting front organization … founded by Hamas supporters” that aims “to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States.” It also objected to being described as “dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America.” The collapse of this lawsuit, combined with the even more recent ending of two other CAIR legal actions (versus Cass Ballenger and David Harris), suggests that CAIR is no longer the plaintiff in any court cases; more broadly, what I [author Daniel Pipes] in 2004 called its pattern of growing litigiousness seems finished. More details about CAIR's failed attempt to intimidate an opponent into silence at link. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 No need to, BA. Mr. Whitehead is doing well without a fatwa, thankyouverymuch, heh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-04-21 23:08 |
| #9 Let it be so, AAP. Maybe you should issue a fatwa? |
| Posted by: BA 2006-04-21 22:52 |
| #8 Let this be a lesson to all of us. Outfits like CAIR will use every tool to undermine the US, its culture, and its institutions, just like the ACLU. The only way to stop them is to confront them. Andrew Whitehead showed a great deal of courage in exposing CAIR. I would like to see the same courage in our government against organizations like CAIR. |
| Posted by: Al Aska Paul, Resident Imam 2006-04-21 20:05 |
| #7 The level of proof is different. That, and the Court was about to require CAIR to open its records on donation lists, membership, links to terror groups, and old speeches made by the leadership. A similar thing just happened recently in Boston where an "Islamic Center" was suing everybody and their mother over unflattering (i.e. truthful) reporting about its activities and funding. The suit was dropped like a hot potato when they discovered that the discovery process cuts both ways. Here's a little background. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-04-21 18:03 |
| #6 Tort law vs. criminal law, Nimble Spemble. The level of proof is different. That, and the Court was about to require CAIR to open its records on donation lists, membership, links to terror groups, and old speeches made by the leadership. The moment those kinds of things are revealed, CAIR will be toast, and no doubt all its officers and employees go to jail. They couldn't maintain the bluff. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-04-21 14:03 |
| #5 Private parties seem to have been more successful in court with CAIR than the DoJ has been with the terrs. hmmmm. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-21 13:42 |
| #4 If you put CAIR and Anti-CAIR together, is it like a matter-antimatter reaction? |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-04-21 13:27 |
| #3 No, let's hope Anti-CAIR got a hugantic, ginormous settlement out of this. |
| Posted by: Slotch Glease2820 2006-04-21 12:46 |
| #2 Let's hope Anti-CAIR got a nice settlement out of this. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-04-21 11:26 |
| #1 HAHAHAHAHA!!! I laugh at your feeble attempts at intimidation CAIR! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-21 11:07 |