Local officials for a Muslim civil rights organization have filed a lawsuit to stop a conservative commentator from using the group’s name in a website.
Dawud Walid, the executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan, said his group today filed a federal lawsuit this week against Debbie Schlussel alleging she created the site cairmichigan.com. Walid’s organization’s website is cairmichigan.org.
“I’m not an attorney, but I do know it’s a violation of federal trademark (laws) to hijack the name of an organization,” said Walid today. “CAIR is one of the most visible Muslim organizations in these United States of America. I can’t speak to directly to her motivations but in our opinion, Debbie Schlussel is an extremely intolerant person … a well-known anti-Muslim, anti-Arab bigot.”