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CAIR Targets Private Citizens in Michigan for Opposing Construction of Islamic Center


http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/04...slamic-center/

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Pamela Geller


This multi-million dollar Muslim Brotherhood machine is steamrolling over everyone and everything in their path. Now they are harassing and bullying ordinary American citizens. Hamas-CAIR systematically destroy voices of freedom while using their leftist lapdogs in the media and culture to whitewash their terror ties.
The media and entertainment elites have been doing the bidding of Hamas-CAIR. Just this week, Hamas operative and CAIR founder Nihad Awad spoke at the premiere of the pro-jihad documentary called “Newburgh Sting” at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film is a propaganda piece about the four Muslims who were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down a military jet and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The CAIR annual banquet is being sponsored by ABC News 7, J P Morgan and other financial institutions. CAIR's jihad millions buy media and men and now they are going after private citizens. It sends a message. It sends a message to every single American that if you dare to oppose Islamic supremacism, you will be targeted, smeared, harassed and driven to bankruptcy through legal channels.

I am thrilled that our legal team David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise are going after these Muslim thugs and supremacists.

“CAIR Targets Private Citizens in Michigan for
Opposing Construction of Islamic Center,” AFLC, April 24, 2014

AFLC is representing seven private citizens who were issued harassing subpoenas by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) because they publicly expressed their opposition to the construction of an Islamic center in their neighborhood in Pittsfield Township, Michigan.

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In 2012, the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor (MCA) requested that the Township rezone a parcel of land to build an Islamic School and community center. The Township denied the request, citing infrastructure and traffic concerns. Nevertheless, CAIR, which bills itself as “America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization,” filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Township on behalf of the MCA, alleging that the denial of the MCA's rezoning application violated the Islamic group's constitutional and statutory rights.
The MCA's rezoning request was opposed by a group of Township residents who live in the neighborhood of the proposed construction. The residents expressed concerns about the traffic congestion that would be caused by the construction of a school and community center in their neighborhood. Pursuant to their rights protected by the First Amendment, these private citizens circulated and submitted to their elected Township officials a petition expressing their opposition to the rezoning and several of them spoke out at public hearings held by the Township to discuss the matter.
As a result, CAIR served harassing subpoenas on a number of these citizens, demanding that they produce private emails and other documents, and in some cases, appear for a deposition.
Indeed, AFLC is representing a husband and wife who came home one day to find several papers jammed in the crack of the front door of their home. The papers included subpoenas demanding the production of personal emails and other documents and a subpoena commanding the wife to appear at a deposition.
In response to CAIR's discovery requests, AFLC filed a motion to “quash” and for a protective order in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, arguing that CAIR's discovery demands were harassing, irrelevant, and oppressive. As stated in AFLC's memorandum in support of its motion:
As a private citizen and resident of the Township, [AFLC's client] has a fundamental right to publicly express to her elected officials her opposition to Plaintiff's proposal, which will personally impact her by increasing traffic in her neighborhood. [AFLC's client] had no authority whatsoever to either grant or deny Plaintiff's rezoning application—she is a private citizen, not a public official. Her personal views, whether expressed to the Township, Township officials, or her neighbors, are not remotely relevant in this litigation.
Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: “There is no doubt that CAIR – a sharia-adherent Islamist group that notoriously uses the legal system to silence any opposition to its nefarious agenda – is abusing the discovery process to retaliate against and intimidate private citizens who dared to publicly express their opposition to the Islamic center. AFLC is quite familiar with CAIR's bullying tactics, which is why it is important that we defend these private citizens' constitutional rights.”
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: “CAIR's discovery demands plainly infringe upon precious First Amendment liberties and the paramount right of a private citizen to publicly express her opinions to elected representatives on matters that affect her and her community. On a broader level, CAIR's decision to browbeat these ordinary Americans clearly shows the pervasiveness of sharia-adherent Islam and its 'civilizational jihad' within our borders. Needless to say, if CAIR wishes to persecute Americans through the legal system, they'll have to contend with us.”
CAIR, a self-described Muslim public interest law firm, was previously named as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the federal criminal trial and conviction of a terrorist funding cell organized around one of the largest Muslim charities, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). HLF raised funds for violent jihad on behalf of Hamas, and top CAIR officials were part of the conspiracy. As a result, the FBI publicly announced that it has terminated any outreach activities with the national organization.
Pamela Geller is the Editor of PamelaGeller.com

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My, the jihadis do seem to have toned it down when moving to America. In Jihadistan, they'd be raping your daughter to shut you up. They'd even call it legal if she was older than 9.

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If they wait until 9 she's considered an old maid.

They definately don't believe in free speach...unless its their own.

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'Not a lot of support' for Michigan Islamic Academy in Pittsfield Township

The private school proposal called for capacity for 360 students from pre-kindergarten through high school, giving the school - now based on Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor - enough room to expand in lower grades and eventually close the existing facility. A community center also would have been sought on the property in coming years.
The existing school, now based within the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, now has 198 students enrolled, according to building staff.
More than a dozen residents spoke against the proposal or sent letters expressing their concerns.

Just some background on this very old ongoing controversy. I suppose they could have gone the second amendment resolution path so favored by conservative patriotic militias. I mean is it so far fetched for a community center in THEIR neighborhood that is certainly GROWING?

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Maybe the fact this is NOT a Muslim contry... non-Muslims have their right to input on community issues... and an Organization with known and proven terrorist ties has ZERO right threatening anyone here...

If it was any other group they would be charged with hate crimes... But if you are white and Christian under this administration... you have no rights.

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this very old ongoing controversy.

Since about 619 A.D. when Aisha was married to their holy man.

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Its not a hate crime to want a religious based community center. Christians do it all the time. Or does freedom of religion ONLY apply to Christians?

Since about 619 A.D. when Aisha was married to their holy man.

Christianity was having its own problems during that time. Guess you can't go anywhere without running into the local yokel nut job that blame their lunacy on whatever god they can find.

Every religion has its fringe lunatics.

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Its not a hate crime to want a religious based community center. Christians do it all the time. Or does freedom of religion ONLY apply to Christians?

It is when you hire a muslim terrorist group (CAIR) to attack non-muslim people opposed to it.

Any group that CAIR supports.....is automatically suspect. Anyone CAIR attacks .....is the true hero.

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Every religion has its fringe lunatics.

The FOUNDER of their faith was Aisha's husband. He married her when she was 6 years old.

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Lets not start the pedophile argument. You must not be Catholic. Or ignore the history of Christianity, spread by blood from the sword.

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As opposed to Islam that was spread under threat of convert or die horribly? A policy they STILL adhear to rabidly.

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Gee Catsmine... whats with the negative rep on a current events discussion. When that last comment is historically accurate?

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let's get this straight, when, since Muslims realised they could rule themselves have they not behaved badly? Personally I think they should all be shipped back to their country of origin and ancestory. Iraq and Syria have demonstrated that they cannot behave rationally amongst themselves, why then should others be subject to their sectarian and religious B/S. Right now the world has a serious refugee problem and we look to see who these people are. The vast majority are Muslims, the victims of the inhumanity of their own people. they want their Ummah, their Caliphate. Let them have it and live there leaving the rest of us alone for we crave not their company

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Gee Catsmine... whats with the negative rep on a current events discussion. When that last comment is historically accurate?

That was supposed to be a positive. I'll see if I can edit.

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how do you get a positive out of pedophilia?

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how do you get a positive out of pedophilia?

I don't know... ask the Muslims... they have some fixation with virgins and impressionable prepubescent young girls dating back to Mohammed.

Me as a Protestant....want a woman old enough to know what she wants already....that doesn't need brainwashed.....and in fact....if she's NOT a virgin.....who cares?

THe fact I've been married over 20 years doesn't change that.....I felt that way long before I met my wife.

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Like Christians, Jews and Hindus, and ALL the rest, Muslims have many divergent groups within the whole. Broad brushing any religion ignores cultural nuances between them. That only makes you factually correct in a very narrow sense Smoothy, specific to but a few sects that may,or may NOT be completely true.

Beliefs are like that. Ancient man made up all kind of stuff around the village fires.

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Just ancient man?

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Like Christians, Jews and Hindus, and ALL the rest, Muslims have many divergent groups within the whole. Broad brushing any religion ignores cultural nuances between them. That only makes you factually correct in a very narrow sense Smoothy, specific to but a few sects that may,or may NOT be completely true.

Beliefs are like that. Ancient man made up all kind of stuff around the village fires.

Hardly in a NAORROW sense... the vast majority of muslims hold to those beliefs... those who don't are a tiny minority. Muslims who get to pick their spouses are a tiny minority as well... most of them the parents have decided who will marry who while they are still small children... and its not uncommon in many countries where its allowed that the girls are married off long before they turn 18 to men who in some cases are much older.

I don't dream this up...and I certainly didn't get it from the liberal media. I've been told this directly by muslim women I know from 5 differnt countries.