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The Legal Project to Defend Robert Spencer from CAIR
News from the Legal Project, Middle East Forum
Press Release
August 2, 2007
http://www.meforum.org/press/1716
PHILADELPHIA - The Legal Project <http://www.meforum.org/legal-project.php>
of the Middle East Forum announces its support of Robert Spencer and the
Young America's Foundation (YAF), the latest victims of what appears to be a
targeted intimidation and defamation campaign by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) designed to silence critics of its
organization.
Spencer, a well-respected author and the director of www.jihadwatch.org
<http://www.jihadwatch.org/> , spoke today for YAF on "The Truth about CAIR"
on the campus of George Washington University. As a consequence of this
invitation, YAF's president Ron Robinson received a threatening and possibly
defamatory letter written by CAIR's acting attorney, Joseph E. Sandler, of
the law firm Sandler, Reiff & Young, P.C.
Sandler's letter (available in pdf format here
<http://www.meforum.org/img/1716.pdf> ) accuses Mr. Spencer, without
offering any factual support, of being a "well-known purveyor of hatred and
bigotry against Muslims," with "a history of false and defamatory
statements." Sandler goes on to "demand that YAF cancel the subject session
or else take steps to ensure that false and defamatory statements are not
disseminated," and states an intention to pursue a "legal remedy" against
YAF, should CAIR deem statements made by Spencer at the session "false and
defamatory."
CAIR's letter appears to be aimed at maliciously harming Spencer's
reputation, interfering in his lawful employment, and aimed to discourage
both Spencer and YAF from exercising their fundamental rights to free speech
and assembly. Furthermore, the letter wrongfully implies that YAF has an
independent duty to censor Spencer, and that it may be subject to suit for
allowing Spencer to speak on private property. It is our opinion that CAIR's
pre-emptive accusations are without merit, without any legal basis, and that
CAIR has yet to prove any of its statements as true.
Therefore, the Legal Project hereby gives CAIR and its attorneys notice that
it, too, will pursue "every available and appropriate legal remedy to
redress any false or defamatory statements that are made" or have been made
by CAIR and its attorneys against Spencer. We advise CAIR's staff to govern
themselves accordingly.
The Legal Project, established by the Middle East Forum in June 2007, is
dedicated to safeguarding the democratic liberties afforded by the
Constitution to U.S. citizens, namely the rights to free speech and free
assembly. The Legal Project protects researchers and analysts working on the
topics of terrorism, terrorist funding, Islam, and Islamism against those
who seek to silence them through intimidation, defamation, and predatory
lawsuits.
Immediate release
For more information: John Matthies, (215) 546-5406, ext. 16, or
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