CAIR Files Lawsuit Seeking to Ban Book

When guilty parties can no longer use silence to prevent serious charges against them, it usually means those charges have become extremely damaging. Such appears to be the case with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the authors of a book that blow the lid off of CAIR's true intentions. The book - Muslim Mafia - was written based on documents secretly removed from CAIR's offices by the son of the book's author, David Gaubatz. According to Gaubatz's attorney, CAIR is not continuing to pursue litigation because it believes it can win; it's doing so for the purposes of intimidation.

Via WND:

After filing two unsuccessful versions of its complaint, CAIR has filed yet another amended complaint that asks federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., to bar the Gaubatzes and anyone related to their effort from publishing the documents and recordings obtained in the undercover operation.

CAIR interpreted the judge's order to return all copies of the documents as a demand to also return "copies published in the book," according to a Joint Status Report filed April 22 in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Horowitz, a frequent television legal analyst based in the San Francisco Bay area, has teamed with two other high-profile lawyers in the case. Bernard Grimm, in Washington, D.C., is a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, CNN and Court TV. Martin Garbus, in New York City, is perhaps the country's best known First Amendment lawyer.

Horowitz believes CAIR knows it can't win the case, but he cautioned that the Saudi-funded group "can chill the First Amendment by making it so expensive to speak against them that no one can challenge them."

CAIR is using bully tactics to prevent future lawsuits and challenges. The strategy appears to work when it comes to Fox News Channel, which continues to tout CAIR as a civil rights group. Until these entities stand up to groups like this, they will continue to bully.

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