CAIR LOSES BIG IN COURT

The good news, aside from the fact that the judge dismissed a case re-filed by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) against Dave Gaubatz, author of "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America", is that America is being provided with a glimpse into how CAIR intends to intimidate its opponents through endless lawsuits. That's also the bad news. In order to defeat CAIR in court, be prepared for a fight.

It all started when Gaubatz' son, Chris went undercover as a young Muslim intern, working for CAIR. He was given documents by the group that he was supposed to shred. Instead, he retrieved 12,000 pages that prove quite damaging to CAIR, which are detailed in the book. A judge ruled that the documents were to be returned to CAIR. However, the FBI almost simultaneously had them subpoenaed and now possesses copies.

World Net Daily reports on the latest ruling against CAIR:

A federal judge has dismissed an attempt by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to re-file yet another lawsuit against Air Force special agent P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris, the father-and-son team that investigated and exposed the group's terrorist ties.

Defense lawyers are hailing the decision as a victory over CAIR's alleged plan to "chill" free speech critical of the organization through an avalanche of court cases and legal costs.

"We briefed, counter briefed, we spent thousands of dollars on the case," said Daniel Horowitz, one of the three lawyers for the defense. "Only then did they file this new lawsuit, which would have effectively forced us to start all over."

"But the new lawsuit didn't have anything substantively new," Horowitz told WND. "And yet, that's their whole goal. They know they can't win the case, but they can chill the First Amendment by making it so expensive to speak against them that no one can challenge Saudi-funded CAIR. In the end, they can just keep getting more and more money from overseas and burn out opposition with lawsuits."

If this strategy on the part of CAIR is truly intended to further Saudi interests in the west, which allegedly includes the goal of replacing the U.S. Constitution with some form of Sharia Law, then the United States judicial system needs some courageous judges and lines need to be drawn. In this case, the judge stood up to CAIR:

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, however, "denied as moot" CAIR's request to re-file the case.

"The judge looked at papers and said, 'Look, you don't have a right to do this; everything was fully briefed; you had your opportunity,'" Horowitz explained.

Another interesting aspect to this case is that earlier, Horowitz filed a motion saying that CAIR had no right to claim the documents because it had changed its name almost immediately after being named as a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which kicked off in 1997 and was re-tried a year later. HLF, along with individual defendants, lost big.

Gaubatz has a website with much more information.

Be sure to read the entire WND article.