Lori Saroya is a former board member of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the cofounder of the Minnesota branch of CAIR. However, when she tried to quit the organization, CAIR denied her the money they owed to her unless she signed an agreement to stop criticizing the group. When she refused CAIR’s conditions, CAIR sued her for defamation, only to quickly drop the suit when Saroya countersued.
However, the 2022 CAIR press release about dropping the lawsuit to “get out of the mud with Lori” continues to haunt Saroya by affecting her ability to find employment, compelling her to quit her mosque and fear for her safety.
This affair is a very good example of why the media needs to confront CAIR. Because CAIR not only goes after so-called “Islamophobes,” but also children, the mentally ill, and even other Muslims.
“Dispute between Blaine council member, Muslim affairs group hurtles forward with new defamation suit,” by Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, January 19, 2024:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations and Blaine’s first Muslim City Council member are locked in an ongoing, bitter legal dispute that has seen accusations lobbed ranging from defamation to cyberstalking and Islamophobic extremism.
Lori Saroya, a former senior leader with the national Muslim advocacy group and now the first Muslim to serve on Blaine’s City Council, sued CAIR in federal court in Minnesota earlier this week — nearly two years after CAIR dismissed its own federal defamation suit against her.
Saroya’s new lawsuit is in response to a January 2022 press release from CAIR’s national board in which the group accused Saroya of using anonymous email and social media accounts to harass CAIR employees and spread “Islamophobic tropes and conspiracy theories” about the organization.
In a civil complaint filed this week, Saroya called CAIR’s accusations of cyberstalking “outrageously false.”
“CAIR did so as part of a concerted effort to blacken her reputation, destroy her credibility, and silence her and others who have raised serious concerns about CAIR’s abuse of women, dishonest practices, and violations of civil rights, among others,” wrote Steven Kerbaugh, an attorney for Saroya.
Saroya was sworn in last year as the first Muslim and woman of color to serve on the City Council in Blaine, a northern suburb of the Twin Cities. She previously led CAIR’s Minnesota chapter from 2007 to 2016 and later worked in its national office as a national chapter development director and board member before resigning in 2018….
In an emailed statement, Saroya said her lawsuit spells out CAIR’s “unfortunate record of sanctioning and indulging serious allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination within its organization, retaliating against women who raise these issues and engaging in profoundly dishonest conduct vis a vis the public, the Muslim-American Community and even its own Board.”
“CAIR’s defamatory statements about me were intended to intimidate not just me but others like me,” she wrote. “The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold CAIR and its leadership to account — something which has been much too long in coming.”…
Troybeam says
A female Muslim suing an organization likely run by Muslim males, does she really think they care about giving her anything especially when it comes down to money?
somehistory says
She’s still a mozlum. Why not quit being a part of the death cult of demonic teachings?
She must realize that the book they all worship… and on the basis of someone burning said book, will commit murder…gives the male members of the cult, the entire number of them, license to do what they are doing at c.a.i.r.
Is she only in it for the money? She could leave…after all, the U.S. still has a measure of Freedom of Religion. She would only have to fear the same people she’s fighting in court.
If she’s going to use her “first mozlum woman” bit, and worship the book, what kind of case has she?
WPM says
Is She only in it for the money? I would answer yes if CAIR pay her the money she said she was owed she would have left peacefully in my opinion , CAIR shut up when she sue them back ,I would keep looking over my shoulder and be real careful of strange “accidents” if I where her .Islam is like the MOB they do not take kindly to losing money or people leaving the organization or talking to outsiders about” their thing” as the mafia put it.. It is a criminal crime organization ,a violent cult ,a political movement ,a religious movement all roll into one. Islam is the whole evil package it has operated this way for over 1400 years .
40 rounds says
Minnesotans are the dumbest, most gullible people in the US hence we get al franken, Omar the ilhan, and the Minneapolis city council and mayor
Gandalfs Trouserpress says
She’s already in violation of Sharia – I’m surprised she’s still living.
winoceros says
i know, create a muslim pr organization, made to slander everything that moves for nine years, and then get butthurt when they do the normal islamic thing to her once she’s on the outs. play stupid muslim games, win stupid muslim prizes.
WPM says
Lay down with dogs wake up with fleas.
GE says
I lived north of Blaine for several years, and shopped there frequently. It’s seen its share of growth, and also the arrival of more Muslims, especially the last ten years or so.
https://bringmethenews.com/news/blaine-city-council-unanimously-approves-permit-for-controversial-muslim-school
OLD GUY says
C.A.I.R. cares less about Lori, after all she is a women and half as worthless as a male muslim. Did I get that wrong?