Federal judge chastises Hamas-linked CAIR

The Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) may finally be getting its comeuppance in a public trial. The Hamas-linked organization with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood will get the exposure it so much wants to avoid if the trial takes place. Their biggest fear is for them to be exposed as an embedded, subversive Islamic front group.

Robert Spencer's blog Jihad Watch discusses the case in detail.

On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied CAIR's motion to reopen discovery in what has become known as the Muslim Mafia Trial.

CAIR sued the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and its employees back in 2008 for compiling a documentary to expose CAIR's Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas ties along with other illegal activities. 

In the documentary, Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris, went undercover as CAIR interns and learned of multiple crimes committed by CAIR. From the information they gathered, renown author, Paul Sperry, wrote a book describing CAIR's crimes and terrorist connections. Dave taught Chris to work as a CAIR intern and gain access to the criminal evidence.

However, there was no investigation by the Department of Justice or the FBI. Instead, CAIR sued Gaubatz and his son for wiretapping and computer hacking and other charges. But even with the information they gathered against CAIR, the Obama administration has done nothing about it, and this gave the terror-linked group to open the lawsuit, and since the suit began, CAIR added more defendants including CSP which is headed by Frank Gaffney, a Reagan administration official.

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) founded and led by David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, represents the CSP defendants. Yerushalmi has also represented Pamela Geller, the co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, in legal battles with CAIR.

Earlier this year, the federal court had ordered both parties to prepare for trial or mediate a settlement. CAIR, with its terrorist connections was in no position to settle and after months of delay, and its 12th lawyer for the case, Haytham Faraj, the Hamas-linked organization filed a motion to re-open discovery and allow CAIR's counsel to name experts who could testify about the reputational damages the poor dears suffered as a result of the publication of the book Muslim Mafia. 

Yerushalmi and Muise filed an opposition to the motion saying that Faraj failed to explain why the case should be further delayed and not ready for trial (since it had 7 freaking years to get ready).

The AFLC lawyers also pointed out in the opposition that CAIR had early on in the case renounced any claim for reputational damages, including any losses attributed to loss in donor income or the inability to lobby government officials, because CAIR didn't want its reputation placed center-stage in the litigation.

The Court agreed with AFLC and denied CAIR's motion:

Although a trial date has not yet been set in this case, the dispositive motions in this case are finally resolved, and it is now time to prepare for trial rather than time to reopen discovery, particularly when certain prior decisions of the Court were premised on the explicit disclaimer of reputational damages. Reopening discovery at this point, even for a limited purpose, would not serve a "just, speedy, and inexpensive" resolution of this matter. Accordingly, for all of these reasons, and given the long history of this case recounted above, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have not shown good cause to reopen discovery, and Plaintiffs' motion is DENIED.

The judge added a warning comment to CAIR and its new counsel:

The Court notes that this request to reopen discovery comes as Plaintiffs retained new attorneys--once again--purportedly to take this case to trial. While it is Plaintiffs' prerogative to switch jockeys mid-course, they may not rewind time and begin the race again. To do so would be neither fair nor efficient.

Both AFLC lawyers applauded the judge's ruling and are eager to expose CAIR as the "subversive Islamist front group" that it is.

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator and Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front groups by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in the Holy Land Foundation trials (HLF).

HLF was a fund raiser for violent jihad by Hamas and top CAIR leaders were part of the conspiracy. From this, the FBI publicly ended its outreach activities with CAIR and the United Arab Emirates has officially declared CAIR a terrorist organization.

In spite of this, however, president Obama continues to have a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, of which CAIR is an arm.


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