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Islamic Advocacy Group C.A.I.R. Must Turn Over Donor Lists, Federal Court Rules

2024-12-01

[LegalInsurrection] Court: CAIR must produce the names of donors of $5,000 or more and contributions by “any individual or entity within … Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Kuwait.”

The Islamic advocacy group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations

... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
) must disclose the sources of its funding, a federal district court has ruled in a defamation case against the organization.

The lawsuit was brought by Lori Saroya, a former chapter head and employee at CAIR, who resigned in 2018. After she left, Saroya took to the internet, the court filing says, in social media posts accusing CAIR of creating a hostile work environment and financial mismanagement.

CAIR first sued Saroya for defamation over those online accusations in 2021, alleging they "falsely implied CAIR received funding from foreign governments and terrorists." It later voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit in 2022. But the legal dispute between the parties didn’t end there.

Rather than leave well enough alone, CAIR renewed the hostilities less than 10 days later in a blurb suggesting it had won its case against Saroya on the merits. It said she was using lawfare to "demand the names of CAIR supporters who have donated to us," and accused her of "cyberstalking," a state and federal crime, the court noted this week.

That blurb turned the tables. Now Saroya is suing CAIR for defamation over its accusations. And unlike CAIR’s earlier lawsuit, this one has legs.

As a nonprofit organization, CAIR isn’t ordinarily required to reveal its donors’ identities. But Saroya’s claims bring that information within the scope of discovery, federal Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled this week. Saroya alleges "eyebrow-raising financial mismanagement" in the lawsuit, including "hiding from its own Board the sources, nature and magnitude of massive foreign funding of CAIR."

In its order granting her sweeping request for discovery, the court required CAIR to turn over the names of donors of $5,000 or more from 2014 through 2022, and documents showing contributions by "any individual or entity within, or any governmental unit of, Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
or Kuwait between 2007 and 2014."

That broad ruling, the court said, was "a self-inflicted wound occasioned by its own blurb. In commenting on the merits of the 2021 lawsuit in the manner in which it did, CAIR resuscitated the very issues that had just been laid to rest."

"CAIR’s blurb has opened the door to litigating—and thus discovering—the merits of the 2021 litigation," Judge Schultz wrote on Monday.

While it holds itself out as a Moslem civil rights organization, CAIR has long been accused of sympathizing with Islamic terror, including Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Last year, CAIR executive director Nihad Awad celebrated Hamas’s October 7 attacks against Israel at an event for American Moslems for Paleostine: "I was happy to see people breaking the siege...the people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense," he said.

In an interview with The Post, Saroya’s lawyer, Jeffrey Robbins, described Monday’s ruling as "the mother of all legal boomerangs": "It will force CAIR to ’turn over evidence about everything from fundraising practices, such as having raised money from foreign sources and concealed it; whether it deceived donors; whether it mismanaged donor money; whether it retaliated against employees or threatened to retaliate against employees for raising concerns about sexual harassment or the like,’ he told the paper.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
although the court hasn’t set a deadline for discovery, it has scheduled a settlement conference for early next year. Now that it’s under order to open its books, CAIR could decide to settle—and close the case, only this time for good.

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 And they will absolutely ensure that they comply fully and honestly, because after all, nobody actually believes that taqiyya and kitman nonesense? (sarc/off)

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-12-01 14:04

#1 Quickly shredding foreign origins?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-01 10:46

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