Confidence or Chutzpah?
Reader comment on item: Why Is CAIR Suing Anti-CAIR?

Submitted by To' Azeredo (United States), Apr 8, 2004 at 03:32

Perhaps CAIR has calculated that it has sufficient political clout to openly seek to intimidate public critics? This suit would then simply reflect its confidence in having become a "serious" player. Why pick on ACAIR? Because it is a slight enough entity to not have the resources to enter the fray, unless substantial outside help comes in time. And yet it is a serious enough effort, in its handling of the evidence and the construction of its charges against CAIR, to get their goat. One could speculate that Whitehead's production must be substantially on target if they move like this against him. It does take some extraordinary chutzpah, though, to file such a suit so soon after one of their prominent officers is convicted of terrorist activities. And will they claim that accusing them of seeking to establish Islamic law on the USA is to accuse them of something they do NOT seek??? I do hope this suit goes ahead, and Andrew Whitehead gets financial support for it. I would love to see some of the information about CAIR that would be uncovered.

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