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Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: May 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Author: NewsFromIslam
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If you haven't been following the legal battles that have erupted between American talk show host Michael Savage and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR & CAIR-Canada ) this news report from FOX News gives a pretty decent synopses:There are currently 14 high-level CAIR officials who are being investigated for ties to terrorism including the director Muthanna al-Hanooti. Over the past two years, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Canadian affiliate, CAIR-Canada, have filed a series of lawsuits against journalists and others who have traced the connection between CAIR and the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Among the targets of these lawsuits have been the Web site Anti-Cair-net.org, the Canadian terrorism expert David Harris, and this newspaper and myself. [...] On April 12, CAIR-Canada settled its lawsuit against Harris. The lawsuit ended without retraction or apology by Harris. The suit against Anti-Cair-net was settled a few days earlier. Although the terms of Anti-Cair's settlement are confidential, Anti-Cair's Web site has likewise issued no retraction or apology. The words that triggered the lawsuit remain posted on the Anti-Cair site: Anti-Cair stands by its charge that CAIR is a "terrorist-supporting front organization ... founded by Hamas supporters" that aims "to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States." The lawsuit against the National Post and myself was settled with an editor's note that likewise offered no apology or retraction. [...] Nobody associated with CAIR-Canada has been charged with any criminal misconduct. Internal CAIR-Canada documents uncovered during CAIR's litigation against the National Post suggested, however, that 70% of CAIR-Canada's revenues were forwarded to CAIR in the United States. (National Post April 2006)The Savage vs. CAIR and the terrorist connection cases have not been brought up in Canadian media as far as I have been able to tell even though CAIR-Canada operates under the umbrella of CAIR. It could be as simple as nobody wants to touch it - for obvious reasons.