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Executive Director and Founder of CAIR Nihad Awad (left) with Corey Saylor, national legislative director of CAIR, at a press conference called by CAIR to release CAIR's latest report, “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and Its Impact in the United States." The report was another tactic designed to silence critics.
A new study by Citizens for National Security documents almost 150 instances where the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, used a tactic known as “lawfare” to intimidate its opponents.
The Lawfare Project defines “lawfare” as the “abuse of Western laws and judicial systems to achieve strategic military or political ends.” This includes the “negative manipulation of international and national human rights laws to accomplish purposes other than, or contrary to, those for which they were originally enacted.”
The American Islamists’ use of lawfare is primarily in the form of frivolous lawsuits and legal threats meant to stifle free speech. Even if the Islamists’ targets have done no wrong and are sure to win any court case, the high legal costs and controversy they incur punish and potentially bankrupt them.
“Lawfare is the newest, most visible and increasingly emergent form of asymmetric warfare, which must be countered both tactically and strategically,” says Brooke Goldstein, director of the Lawfare Project.
The problem is so prevalent that the United Nations reported in 2008 that it “has served to discourage critical media reporting on matters of serious public interest.” Non-profit groups like the Lawfare Project and the Legal Project have had to rise up to defend victims.
Another study by the Lawfare Project finds multiple incidents where CAIR and its Islamist allies used lawfare to threaten critics.
In 2003, CAIR filed a defamation lawsuit against former North Carolina Congressman Cass Ballenger because of an answer he gave to a reporter about CAIR. He described the organization as a fundraising arm for the Hezbollah terrorist group.
The statement was false—but not because CAIR was innocent. CAIR has been linked to Hamas, another terrorist group (not Hezbollah). The lawsuit was thrown out.
Counter-terrorism expert Joe Kaufman wrote an article criticizing the Six Flags amusement park for holding a special event organized by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a CAIR ally with Muslim Brotherhood links. Local groups affiliated with CAIR sued Kaufman even though he didn’t mention any of the plaintiffs in the article.
After a lengthy and expensive legal battle, CAIR lost. But its objective wasn’t winning the case, per se. The objective was to punish a prominent critic, deter future opponents and make an adversary toxic. For example, publishers are much less likely to invest in an author with a history of being sued.
Another victim is Chris Gaubatz, who bravely infiltrated CAIR and wrote a book about what he learned.
“I was surprised at how much I learned about propaganda, lawfare and media manipulation while performing research as an intern in CAIR-National. They are masters of media manipulation, working to control the opinion of the 7% of the electorate in our democracy that is involved politically,” he said in an interview with the Clarion Project.
And it’s not just CAIR that is using the tactic.
Arguably the most famous case of lawfare involves Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld. She was sued by a Saudi billionaire for her book linking him to terrorism-financing, along with along with 45 other publishers and journalists. She was the only one that did not settle, and it took a heavy financial toll on her.
Dr. Ehrenfeld won the lawsuit and ultimately, the SPEECH Act (Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage), also known as “Rachel’s Law,” was passed to protect Americans from the lawfare of foreigners by stopping enforcement of foreign libel suits against Americans that don’t meet American constitution standards of due process and First Amendment protection.
The Islamic Society of Boston, a mosque with undeniable, documented links to the Muslim Brotherhood, sued 17 people in the media that reported on these facts, specifically its funding from Saudi Arabia. As soon as the mosque was required to hand over financial records, the Islamic Society of Boston dropped the lawsuit.
Lawfare is also used on government agencies. In 2011, CAIR teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the FBI for supposedly illegally spying on innocent Muslims. The ACLU has a history of partnering with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and its allies for lawfare.
CAIR and its allies are deploying the same tactic against the NYPD today.
The NYPD is being sued by Islamist leaders and organizations for conducting surveillance. The controversy captures headlines, but the NYPD’s justification does not. These lawsuits help CAIR and its allies mislead the public about the NYPD’s operations and integrity.
On the international level, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is trying to force compliance with Sharia Law through lawfare. It is lobbying hard for international laws criminalizing “hate” speech towards religions. The OIC hopes to outlaw criticism of Islam as Sharia requires.
“It’s the OIC’s attempt to pressure non-Muslims to comply with Islamic blasphemy codes. Its target is the West and failure to comply with its demands is deemed ‘Islamophobic’ even when no actual bigotry or prejudice is present,” explained Deborah Weiss in an interview with the Clarion Project.
Lawfare is a powerful, non-violent tactic. Most writers and publishers cannot muster the financial resources to fight the American Islamists. It is simply more affordable to cave and settle, or to avoid offending them at all.
Thanks to lawfare, critics of radical Islam are faced with a choice between potential bankruptcy and telling the truth.
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These Ragheaded Bastards need to go back where they came from, coming to Our Land, and attempting to turn us into a Third World Country full of savvage Laws is not our style. Don't like it here, get the Hell out!! Don't bring your vicious backward Culture to us. We are so advanced we use Toliet Paper.
Lord help us JESUS! that's all I can say! Lord help us JESUS!
The enemy within our gates--with easier access to the Peoples House-- than any American Patriot has.is now bold enough and has enough power --aided by the ACLU--and the "progressive" (Useful Idiots" of both formerly American political parties.) is preparing to raise the green flag of the Muslim Brotherhood above our Red White and Blue .The enemy Knows our Courts indeed all of our Institutions are NO longer given to support American Virtue --Religion(Christianity) Morality(That Moral ethic that springs from and is reflected in the Christian Scriptures) and Knowledge( that knowledge that begins with Fear of the Lord.Elohim God of our Founding Fathers) We trusted our Schools--our Institutions to a Government divorced from God--We chose the begging bowl of an enslaved society over FREEDOM.Our enemy is NOT stupid --in many ways they are more wise than we are. But They are wrong.And they do not know God.And HE alone can save a people who once put In God we trust on our coins.and God Bless America inour Hearts.FREEDOM Our Cause.for Resistance to Tyranny IS obedience to God.
I'm thinking that any lawyers that entertain these cases, should be remembered. No further discussion necessary.
Thomas,
What we need to do, and it seems you are willing and able to help with this, is turn the tables on CAIR and the rest of those God-forsaken-lower-than-whale-feces addle-pates. I am sure you have heard the term to "fight fire with fire". Anytime one of those pieces of garbage attempts to do anything against a real American, file a lawsuit against them for religious and any other form of harassment against us Americans.
Semper Fi! GySgt Thomas Lakin, USMC Retired.
ALL WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION MUST GO ( LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT ) +++++ IT IS THAT SIMPLE +++++ .
Thomas,
I have saved your contact info at Gamechanger. As soon as i find any of these muslims trying to pull their BS here i will let you.
As far as I am concerned I have kicked one of them out of my office for being a muslim. I would not be surprised if he went to his employer in the UAR and told him I would not help him. He probably did what most muslims do, he raped a sheep or a little boy!
Unless your system is not recognized by mine, you can get me at thegunny@mindspring.com.
Semper Fi!
GySgt Thomas Lakin, USMC Retired
Even Angola is politically smarter than US. Islam was proclaimed being cult, prohibited to practice and mosques to be demolished. That is the right way to go.
Jerry, You are SO right. The United States, and all civilized countries, must declare Islam as the enemy it is and prohibit it similar to what Japan has done. All followers of Islam should be deported to their countries of origin and if born here should be deported anyway. The only way we can save our country is for all Republicans, Democrats, and Independents is to vote for candidates who recognize the danger to all of us by Islam and agree to make laws prohibiting every aspect of Islam. If you think that this would be un-Constitutional then you also think defending ourselves against the Axis in WWII was illegal. Wake up America, defend your country and family against these savage invaders that are using our own laws against us.
Dave
Dave,
In case you haven't studied the muslim methods, they will pretend to be nice until their population grows to where they can start taking over. You can verify this in Great Britain and Europe.
My way is extremely harsh, but it is also the most effective way to stop these anti-human pieces of garbage forever. ALL males should be destroyed and all females should be fixed so as not to be able to breed. Never forget, the only good muslim male is a dead muslim male...
This is not restricted to just our country, but should be a world-wide effort!
Semper Fi! GySgt Thomas Lakin, USMC Retired