DANIEL PIPES: CAIR BACKS DOWN FROM ANTI-CAIR

On March 8, 2006, I posted an article CAIR:  ISLAMISTS FOOLING THE ESTABLISHMENT.    Now Daniel Pipes has published an article,  CAIR Backs Down from Anti-CAIR, which provides an update of a recent lawsuit.  Pipes reports the following:

In a stunning setback, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ defamation suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has been dismissed with prejudice. The Anti-CAIR website, www.anti-cair-net.org, reports a “mutually agreeable settlement,” the terms of which are confidential.  However, Whitehead notes that he issued no public apology to CAIR, made no retractions or corrections, and left the Anti-CAIR website unchanged, so that it continues to post the statements that triggered CAIR’s suit.  Specifically, CAIR had complained about Whitehead calling it a “terrorist supporting front organization … founded by Hamas supporters” that aims “to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States.”   It also objected to being described as “dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America." 
 

That clears the decks; no additional actions are pending between these two parties. In brief, Whitehead won a sweet victory, while CAIR suffered a humiliating defeat.

Daniel Pipes concludes his article saying,

With CAIR’s hopes of defeating its opponents in the legal arena at least temporarily defeated, the next step for those of us in North America unwilling to live under Islamic law is to thwart the organization's social and political ambitions.  I am doing my part by announcing today the establishment of  "Islamist Watch"  a new project to combat the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries. 

Update: 5/8/06 - See the important interview that Jamie Glazov at Frontpagemag.com conducted with Reed Rubinstein, the attorney who litigated the anti-CAIR victory.  It contains lots of important facts about CAIR that the public doesn't generally know.   Imbedded in the interview are these telling sentences

The reason I think this world view has traction among many Mid-Eastern and South Asian Muslim elites, is that I saw these same themes reappear over and over again on a variety of Muslim websites, that I explored, and in many mosque sermons and Islamic publications that I read.   In the course of defending Mr. Whitehead, we engaged in a great deal of wide-ranging research, and I must tell you that I found entering the Islamic Internet world was like walking through a sewer.   The contempt and intolerance for difference and dissent (even by other Muslims) is shocking. Anti-Americanism and disdain for Western civilization is a given.   The oppression of women seems to be a basic cultural norm.   And, of course, raw, eliminationist anti-Semitism is ubiquitous.   Frankly, the obsessive fixation on Jews, Jewish control of the

United States

, and Jewish worldwide plots at times led me to believe there is some sort of mass psychosis at work. . .