Another CAIR-Inspired Lawsuit Dismissed: Muslim Women to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Urth Caffe

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The infamous “islamophobia” lawsuit that was filed in California in 2016 by a pack of Muslim women against a restaurant that was being charged with “islamophobia” for throwing them out of their establishment because of their hijabs is to be dismissed, thanks to the work of the AFLC’s ace legal team of David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise, who have represented AFDI in many free speech cases.

In this case, the restaurant was owned by a Muslim woman, and almost all of their patrons were Muslim. The lawsuit made international headlines. Will the media run the story of the dismissal? Don’t hold your breath. The media is desperate for islamofauxbia stories, even fake ones. The enemedia takes it marching orders from terror-tied organizations like CAIR. Beware.

“Another CAIR-Inspired Lawsuit Dismissed: Muslim Women to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Urth Caffe,” American Freedom Law Center, June 14, 2018:

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Los Angeles, California (June 14, 2018) – Seven Muslim women, who claimed in a lawsuit filed in May 2016 that Urth Caffe had discriminated against them by enforcing a 45-minute seating policy, have agreed to dismiss their lawsuit. Urth Caffe will pay no money to the women or their attorneys. The seven women claimed in their lawsuit that they were subjected to religious discrimination when the Urth Caffe staff asked them to leave after the women refused to abide by the café’s seating policy. The women later made the fraudulent claim that they were evicted from the café because they wore hijabs—Islamic head coverings worn by some Muslim women.

Urth Caffe turned to the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national public interest law firm, to represent them. AFLC immediately filed a cross-claim for trespass. The Superior Court of Orange County, where the lawsuit was filed, refused to dismiss Urth Caffe’s trespass crossclaim ruling that the facts as alleged by Urth Caffe made out a valid claim that the seven women disrupted the Laguna Beach café’s operations the night of April 22, 2016, and that their refusal to abide by the seating policy followed by their refusal to leave the café when asked violated Urth Caffe’s property rights.

During the discovery period, the evidence demonstrated that Urth Caffe, and especially its Laguna Beach café, is a very popular spot for young Muslims to enjoy organic, heirloom coffee and delicious meals and desserts. A very large percentage of its customer base are Muslims, many of whom wear hijabs. The evidence, mostly in the form of security video tape, proved there was no discrimination against the seven women, or anyone else for that matter.

David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, issued the following statement: “This lawsuit was a fraud and a hoax from the get-go. After two years of litigation and after Plaintiffs’ leftist/progressive lawyers, including the ACLU, spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to force a huge financial payoff for themselves and their clients at Urth Caffe’s expense, they have received no money whatsoever and have effectively dropped their claims only to run for the hills.”

Yerushalmi went on to explain: “Urth Caffe did not discriminate against the women who have filed this fraudulent lawsuit. The claim that these women were asked to leave the café because they were wearing hijabs is laughable. That night, as every Friday night, a large number of young people, including a majority of whom are Muslim and of Arab descent, make up the base of Urth Caffe’s customers. Not surprisingly, many of these customers are women wearing hijabs. None of these other Muslim women were asked to leave. The women who now claim victim status were not asked to leave, but only to abide by the café’s policy to give up their high-demand outside patio table after 45 minutes to allow other customers, including those wearing hijabs, to enjoy the experience.”

The seven litigious Muslim women, all in their 20s and 30s, turned for legal advice to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group. The women are Sara Khalil Farsakh (of Corona, California), Soondus Ahmed (of Lake Forest, California), Sara Soumaya Chamma (of Irvine, California), Yumna H. Hameed (of San Juan Capistrano, California), Safa Rawag (of Sunnyvale, California), Safa Rawag’s sister, Marwa Rawag, and Rawan Hamdan (of Amman, Jordan).

Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, explained: “CAIR, currently named a terrorist organization by the UAE, was previously named as an unindicted co-conspirator and Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the successful prosecution 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.”

Muise added, “It is not surprising that the FBI has publicly terminated its outreach activities with CAIR. Moreover, this fraudulent lawsuit is what the Muslim Brotherhood itself describes as ‘civilization jihad.’ In other words, this lawsuit was being waged to use our anti-discrimination laws not for equal protection, but to attain special protection and rights for sharia-adherent Muslims who reject America and the Judeo-Christian values it stands for.

Yerushalmi added: “The sad and destructive element of this fraudulent lawsuit is that one of the two co-owners/-managers of Urth Caffe, Jilla Berkman, herself a Muslim woman, had reached out to the women by Facebook after the discrimination allegations went viral but well before the filing of the lawsuit and offered to sit down with the seven women face-to-face to work out any misunderstandings. Instead, the women turned to CAIR, who in turn directed the women to a small band of hard-core progressive lawyers. These lawyers badly miscalculated and filed the lawsuit. At the end of the day, and after two long years of litigation, the evidence proved there was no discrimination and Urth Caffe agreed to do what they would have done without a lawsuit: make the seating policy clearer to customers and to staff, and continue to provide a welcome environment for all its guests, including its Muslim customers. Let this be a lesson to all others. If you use lawfare as your jihad against an AFLC client, be prepared to spend tens of thousands of dollars and to get nothing in return!”

AFLC has a history of successfully defending law-abiding Americans and American businesses against CAIR-induced lawsuits. Just recently, a federal court in Florida dismissed a CAIR lawsuit against a gun store owner in Florida and a court in Michigan ordered a CAIR client to pay thousands of dollars in sanctions for issuing abusive subpoenas. This dismissal marks another AFLC victory against CAIR and the bad guys (and gals) that would do their bidding.

The American Freedom Law Center is a Judeo-Christian law firm that fights for faith and freedom. It accomplishes its mission through litigation, public policy initiatives, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization. Visit us at www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org.

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poetcomic1
poetcomic1
5 years ago

Keep us informed of the counter-suit for trespassing and disrupting business. I’d love to hear a ‘man bites dog’ story once in a blue moon.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Irvinistan and its environs are coming to resemble Tehran.

chris VN
chris VN
5 years ago

And thanks for the warning, another muslim filled place to avoid if the very unlikely circumstances of me or any of my friends decided to visit Kommunifornistan.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

They will keep filing lawsuits, because in blue states like left wing NY and communist RINO states like Florida, they are winning, and the federal government is 100 percent on board with their invasion and take over.
When enough cultist muslims are elected by useful idiot Americans to political offices, their demands for sharia law compliance in the work place, in public schools and every other venue of our lives, will take place. It’s what islamists inside our country work feverishly toward, every day.
Most Americans are just too ignorant to put an end to the takeover, or to even care.
They excuse their own indifference by listening to the deep state constantly telling them that muslims have just as many rights as they do. Heck, they even have the right to kill you in the name of allah, whenever the mood hits them.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

More false cries of “racism” and “bigotry”….

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