An April 6, report by Daniel Pipes calls attention to a lawsuit filed by the Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) against Anti-CAIR, a website run by Andrew Whitehead, a college student and retired Naval enlistee. His alleged crime according to CAIR- libelous defamation. CAIR's Motion For Judgment takes issue with the following statements from Anti-CAIR press releases:
"a. Let there be no doubt that CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists, and that CAIR wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America. ACAIR, August 13, 2003, Press Release.
b. [CAIR is an] …organization founded by Hamas supporters which seeks to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection… ACAIR, July 4, 2003, Press Release.
c. ACAIR reminds our readers that CAIR was started by Hamas members and is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries. ACAIR, June 14, 2003, Press Release.
d. Why oppose CAIR? CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists. CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil rights of Muslims. CAIR is here to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States and convert our country into an Islamic theocracy along the lines of Iran. In addition, CAIR has managed, through the adroit manipulation of the popular media, to present itself as the ‘moderate' face of Islam in the United States. CAIR succeeded to the point that the majority of its members are not aware that CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations. In addition, CAIR receives direct funding from Islamic terrorists supporting countries. ACAIR, May 29, 2003, Press Release.
e. CAIR has proven leaks to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists. ACAIR, May 29, 2003, Press Release.
f. CAIR is a fundamentalist organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America. ACAIR, April 16, 2003, Press Release.”
For these statements CAIR seeks $1 million in compensatory damages, $350,000 in punitive damages, and legal fees and interest.
GO ANTI-CAIR! You must be doing something right if hatred's soldiers are coming after you.
CAIR marches to the beat of Islamism, has an Islamist agenda for the United States, and is funded by people and organizations tied to Islamism and terrorism. Anti-CAIR links to a September 24, 2003, Front Page article describing CAIR’s participation in a nebulous network of seemingly benign organizations funded by Islamists that make use of American legal protections to push an agenda that is antithetical to the Constitution. In addition, Anti-CAIR's website quotes CAIR leadership, and links to discusions of the quotes, to illustrate CAIR's real agenda.
" Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant...The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth,"
Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of CAIR
"I am in support of the Hamas movement."
Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR Spokesperson
A minimum of background reading on Islam and Islamism (not necessarily the same thing) and an acquaintance with current events is all that one needs to parse these quotes and draw the proper conclusions about CAIR. Islamism is facism. Where Islam governs, religious pluralism suffocates and non-Muslims suffer. One need only look to Iran and Saudi Arabia for proof. Islamism is antithetical to the Constitution because Islamism demands an end to much of the Bill of Rights. To argue for Islamism through education is to argue for an end to the American experiement. Finally, Hamas is both Islamist and terrorist; anyone who supports Hamas supports Islamism and terror.
Anti-CAIR expects to form a legal defense fund to counter CAIR's deep Islamist pockets. Support the fight against CAIR's legal jihad.
Posted by publius at April 12, 2004 06:45 AM