Good to see the Urth Caffe fighting back against this cynical and deceptive victimhood claim.
“Urth Caffe Retains AFLC to Countersue Muslim Women Fraudulently Claiming Discrimination,” American Freedom Law Center, May 4, 2016:
Shortly after being served with a fraudulent lawsuit alleging religious discrimination, the Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach retained the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) to respond to the litigation.
David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, issued the following statement:
“This lawsuit is a fraud and a hoax on the courts and the media. Beware.”
Yerushalmi went on to explain:
“The 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.”
Several key facts have been lost in the media frenzy to present this story in the wake of the hyped press conference of yesterday announcing the filing of the lawsuit. First, one of two owners who manage the Urth Caffe is herself a Muslim woman. Jilla Berkman, a co-owner of the Urth Caffe with her husband, was the one who actually authorized the call to the police after the women now claiming victim-status were loud and abusive to the Urth Caffe employees and refused to give up their table per the stated policy. Second, the lead plaintiff in the frivolous lawsuit is Sara Farsakh, a college-age activist for Palestinian causes who self-promotes her involvement in radical organizations, at least one of which calls for the destruction of Israel. Third, the organization behind the scenes organizing this fraudulent lawsuit is CAIR, or the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations.
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 is 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.”
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.
Yerushalmi remarked:
“This case will be no different. We intend to sue Farsakh and her co-conspirators for trespass and to seek damages for filing this fraudulent lawsuit.”

linnte says
EXCELLENT! Maybe this will help eliminate CAIR as a Civil Liberties group, and get them officially classified as a terrorist supporting entity! I want to see them outlawed, like Al Jazeera!
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
I take your point Fess. But this is still really, really HUGE.
Urth has attracted a large muslim/arab customer demographic. Now it’s not their base. I went to the websites (they have lots of locations) and nobody’s pictured in a headbag. So there’s that.
Now of course the lowlife muslim customers try to dhimmify Urth. But Urth’s not caving. They’re Americans. Best of all: They’re CAPITALISTS Fess! And they’re SUING. They’re SUING CAIR.
Let’s give credit where it’s due. I’m presuming that the Cafe is suing simply on monetary grounds-they want to make $, they need there to be a turnover in tables, yada yada.
Still: Urth is taking on CAIR. Do you have any idea how rare it is for ANY entity, to countersue CAIR? It’s extraordinarily rare.
Oh-and CAIR has the STUPIDEST, worst lawyers in the world, OK? They never win, unless they have a dhimmi judge. And the AFLC never loses. Never.
So this is great. This is wonderful. Let’s root for Urth! They don’t have an email but they have a FB page, with LOTS of support being voiced there! Go Urth!
Fessitude says
Sure; nothing I said necessarily contradicts anything you’re saying. I’m just saying that the attitude of Urth Caffe which I quoted — unless they’re lying, but we have no proof of that ( and there’s plenty of inferential evidence of individuals and groups all overr the place (even in the Counter-Jihad) being apparently tough on Muslims with one hand, while being lenient (if not at times warmly encouraging) with the other hand) — is part of a broad and multifarious attitude throughout the West, inculcating in a thousand ways a sense of accomodation of Muslims as part of the flavor & texture of our societies & daily lives — when we as a society should be cultivating the precise opposite — a rational prejudice against all Muslims based upon the evil, dangerous and unjust Islam they identify themselves with (if not positively support by being Muslims) and the evil, dangerous and unjust Muhammad they adore. Think about that. Muslims are people who adore as the greatest model of conduct for mankind a man who was arguably worse and more alarming than Adolf Hitler (and certainly no better).
While Urth Caffe is helping the Counter-Jihad in the one specific battle zone of “lawfare”, it is doing its small part to surrender another battle zone — waged by Muslims with their special subtype of jihad, the JIhad of Just Being There — slowly, in ever increasing numbers, insinuating themselves into every nook and cranny of our societies and aggrandizing their numbers, in a deep, broad and diverse display and strategy of “We’re here, we’re growing — get used to it.”
Knowing what we know about Islam — the Islam these Muslims enable — how could this be anything but disastrous for our great great grandchildren? Or does the Counter-Jihad Mainstream not give a shit about our generations to come, even if they like to pay lip service to them?
Angemon says
Fessitude posted:
“( and there’s plenty of inferential evidence of individuals and groups all overr the place (even in the Counter-Jihad) being apparently tough on Muslims with one hand, while being lenient (if not at times warmly encouraging) with the other hand) ”
Fessitude:
Who are these individuals you’re speaking about in the CJ movement who support muslims or warmly encourage them? Can you name names and point to specific actions?
Thanks.
Angemon says
“While Urth Caffe is helping the Counter-Jihad in the one specific battle zone of “lawfare”, it is doing its small part to surrender another battle zone — waged by Muslims with their special subtype of jihad, the JIhad of Just Being There — slowly, in ever increasing numbers, insinuating themselves into every nook and cranny of our societies and aggrandizing their numbers, in a deep, broad and diverse display and strategy of “We’re here, we’re growing — get used to it.” ”
Because – as we all know, right? – if the caffee was in fact refusing to serve muslims on the ground they were muslims – which, spoiler alert, is ILLEGAL – then the muslims would no longer be “there”. Where? “There”. Where is “there”? “There” is “there”. If the caffee was breaking the law, as you imply they should, muslims would magically disappear, in the sense they would no longer be “there”. Magic! Nor would they numbers grow – double magic!
TheBuffster says
In other words, you’d like for the cafe to defy the law and get forced out of business, so that Muslims won’t be in their cafe. Trouble is, nobody will be in their cafe. There won’t be a cafe. Somebody else will open a cafe who won’t defy the law, and maybe won’t counter-sue if they get sued by Muslims. Or who might be a good and fearful dhimmi, and will give Muslim customers special favors they wouldn’t give to anyone else. Whatever they want. Just so there won’t be any trouble.
Problem solved. Right?
Christina zimmerman says
I found your website, and first the name jihad is so ridiculous and it shows that you are really mentally unstable. Second, making the claim that muslims are running around taking over cafes is another statement coming from someone mentally unstable.
This cafe should be sued. Any american who wants to make up lies about muslims, should be sued period. Maybe we should sue you too for inciting hatred and violence.
Your website is not freedom of speech but an attempt to lie to americans and incite violence. this is not guranteed by the constititution! and no Im not a muslim, Im an american who is not a racist
Angemon says
Christina zimmerman posted:
“This cafe should be sued.”
Hi Christina. Why should this caffe be sued? They were merely enforcing their rules:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/hugh-fitzgerald-civilizational-jihad-at-the-urth-caffe
“Any american who wants to make up lies about muslims, should be sued period.”
Well, that’s quite the conundrum you must be in – the women suing the caffe are muslims but the caffe owners are also muslims. Which side do you take? Are the muslims who own the caffe lying about the other muslims, who tried to file a suit for “islamophobia”? What of the other muslims who were presumably waiting for a table to clear – are they not allowed to get it because it would be “discriminatory” to ask the muslims who were there for over 45 minutes?
Oh, and is it ok for a non-American to make up lies about muslims? What if the non-American is a muslim making up lies about muslims?
David says
http://www.news.com.au/national/australian-is-operative-neil-prakash-dead/news-story/2fd8eb865b59c2501aa5e9ed2f41f974
Frank Scarn says
Hooyah!
Richard Paulsen says
The same in every country granting muslims asylum.
mortimer says
In most Islamic countries, if these young women tried sitting without a chaperone, they would be insulted very rudely if not attacked.
JawsV says
Make that ALL Islamic countries. There’s no bigger bunch of ingrates in America than Mooslims. Somehow they feel entitled and superior (see Quran 3:110).
Richard Paulsen says
Right. Having more freedom in the West than in their own countries. No woman allowed to escape alone. Only together with a male relative and of the right belief.
Myself seen a muslim woman driving a car here. A man beside her of course.
Richard Paulsen says
Of course wearing a veil while driving.
Angemon says
You know what would be hilarious? If Jilla Berkman’s countersuit were for discrimination as well.
Linde Barrera says
I pray that the Urth Caffè countersuit wins and the Muslimas’ suit gets thrown out. Go AFLC and show ’em your intelligent clout!
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Oh, they’ll win Linde. Guaranteed. If not at trial, on appeal.
How do I know? Well, here’s Bob in a previous life-a trigger-pulling MARINE Honey! Oh yes: Bob and David will rub CAIR’s face in their ‘suit’. And then, they ‘ll ALSO get attorney’s fees.
Go Bob! U-RAH!
Michael says
The religion of peace expressing itself. A lovely testimony. My heart is warmed.
Hope says
There they go again. It’s the same thing every time: The “victims” who are muslims just out in public minding their own business, the “villain” who denies said muslim victim his/her constitutional rights based on bigotry and hatred, CAIR swooping in like the dementors from Harry Potter, the eager media releasing the story full of lies and propaganda, and the lawsuit. Can’t they come up with something original?
Jackson03 says
Are you kidding Hope: These are Muslims, after all. For Muzzies repetition is all the “original” they got!!
Cynthia in California says
I don’t think I have *ever* seen such an accurate and concise description of CAIR. Thank you.
“CAIR swooping in like the Dementors from Harry Potter….”
Brava, Hope!
Marcel Berube says
Don’t worry , the muslinas won’t loose a penny . Everything is orchestrated by CAIR and paid by oil money . The ladies are just a front to shake american society on its bases. One more threat. Muslim’s hypocrisy as usual .
quotha raven says
to Fuel Filter – Yay! Thanks for the comment. Very edifying…I’m firing up the microwave.
cheers!
quotha raven
JawsV says
They can take their hijabs and shove it.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Hahahahahahaha Jaws! Now I call that, ‘succinct’!
JawsV says
I totally hate the headgear screaming “I’m a Muslim and you’re not.”
Cynthia in California says
For personal and medical reasons, I wear a head scarf. To help others distinguish my scarf from a God-forbid-hijab, I wear printed fabrics, multi-colored fabrics, sometimes slinky fabrics *AND* I tie them behind my occipital ridge (below where you’d secure a ponytail).
My entire face, chin, throat, and such are visible. Only my hair is covered.
And I wear the loudest, most outlandish hang-down earrings that I can find. Right now, my fave pair is in the likeness of my favorite breed of DOG (Muslims hate dogs; supposedly unclean–the dogs, anyway).
So: Look for the earrings or, at least, the entire face, to be SURE you’re not looking at a self-righteous Muslim woman.
Angemon says
Dress codes by themselves are not an assurance (although I’d doubt a devout muslim would wear flashy clothing, let alone dog-shaped earrings). Look at the ring in the nose of that portly anthropomorphic bovine, as well as its flashy shirt:
Hope says
Angemon, I started watching the video but it was too nauseating for me. When she got to the part about sharia law not being oppressive and Muhammad being protective of gay people and other minorities, I bailed.
Angemon says
Can’t blame you for that XD Suffice to say the self-proclaimed “muslim feminist” gives exactly 0 (zero) sources to back her claims. Muhammad did that because she says so, and the host was so enthralled by the whole story I’m surprised she didn’t convert on the spot. Or maybe she was just afraid to startle her, seeing how she weights less than one of the muslima’s buttock.
Guest says
Don’t you love it when actual justice is served.
eagle says
Yes, thank god AFLC has a history of successfully defending law-abiding Americans and American businesses against CAIR-induced lawsuits.
Fessitude says
…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.”
I wouldn’t praise Urth Caffe too much. They are happily reinforcing the insinuation of Muslims into our society. Pray tell, Counter-Jihad Mainstream, how is that a good thing in the long run?
Angemon says
Fessitude posted:
“I wouldn’t praise Urth Caffe too much. They are happily reinforcing the insinuation of Muslims into our society. Pray tell, Counter-Jihad Mainstream, how is that a good thing in the long run?”
Leave it to the “Grand Dragon”, Fessitude, to ignore the fight against islamic lawfare and instead whine that the caffee isn’t discriminating against muslims. Which, spoiler alert, it couldn’t do to begin with since the caffe was being sued for allegedly discriminating against muslims. “Derp derp, the caffee is countersuing against discrimination but that’s not a good thing because they’re serving muslims”.
Do you think before posting? Is there any thought process behind your posts?
خَليفة says
Were these women accompanied by male relatives? Shouldn’t this be brought up during the trial – if they claim to be Muslim, why do t they follow the sharia? It would indicate to any jury their true motives.
renitamac says
So….. they have a religion that tells them they are less than men and can only even be in that coffee shop if a man they know agrees with them and their very words are worthless if a man disagrees for any reason, but they think “other people” are discriminating against them? Seriously?
Westman says
Looking at the comments for the caffee on google maps, the owners have no option but to sue because a bunch of Muslims, likely at the direction of an Imam or CAIR, have gone to the commments and given poor reviews in an attempt to ruin the business with false claims of discrimination. Yelp also experienced an attack on the restaurant. The regulars say there is no discrimination at the restaurant and say, “this is absurd”
The normal comments show that this a popular and outstanding cafe. This is a clear case of slander to ruin a business carried out by a pack of wolves and does represent financial loss that should result in a damage award.
Here is an Orange County Register account:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/women-714717-caffe-urth.html
Me-You-I-We-Us-Them says
bepjr.
gravenimage says
Good for this cafe for fighting back!
Mark Swan says
Preppie Muslims, how about that.
sooz22 says
“Preppie Muslims?” Sounds like an oxymoron. Or perhaps they’re assimilating into American society? Crazy, and so self-depricating for a muslim woman. Wow, I wonder when the Sharia police will step in to chastise her? Maybe flog or stone her? One could only hope . . .
mortimer says
Islamic Melodrama 101 and Islamic Victimology 101 equals fraudulent and trivial lawsuit.
Jay Boo says
You are correct about that.
Yet, while I should feel angry at them, I instead pity these Muslimas .
I can only imagine how joyless and meaninglessness their lives must be inside their Islam cage.
They live only for spite.
Charli Main says
I hope that these Muslimas are slapped with multi million dollar compensations suits for bad publicity and loss of earnings.
Keep hitting these vermin where it hurts most—in their pockets. They will soon stop playing the ” poor, discriminated against victim ” card.
BC says
I hope that president Trump will grab CAIR by the scruff of their evil neck and put them in their place. They have been manipulating the US legal system for far too long. Every time there is a ‘victimisation’ incident they are all over it with assistance from the media never mind the facts, Remember ‘clockmed’? BTW what happened to his law suit Robert?
John says
It would be laughable except the joke is on us.
Wake up get active and resist the hydra like attacks on our right to free speech by the left wing Islamic alliance. Last year a retired Australian general who now works in academia said this would be a 100 year war against Islam. Im assuming he means we will face far greater threats at home before we begin fight back. The longer we leave it, the greater will be the carnage in the west with a civil war likely in France within 30yrs-50yrs.
steve says
Looks like Female Genital Mutilation/Muslimisation has wiped the smile off these pinched little Muslim faces, Do I care ???? OH FRABJOUS DAY ! CALLOO ! CALLAY !
JawsV says
He chortled in his joy!
Cynthia in California says
These remarks are despicable. The torture young girls undergo in FGM often kills them, either outright from blood loss or later, after infection sets in. A later mortal effect can occur during first intercourse (bleeding out) or first childbirth (same).
The procedure is performed when she’s fully conscious, no pain killers, not even clean instruments.
Please don’t lower yourselves by gloating over the results of probable torture.
TH says
There will be no peace or social harmony anywhere either in the West or other countries like India or Thailand whilst muslims are tolerated and allowed to carry out such practices. There should be a financial penalty for false accusations and baseless lawsuits, so that they can pay the costs of such ridiculous litigation. Every effort should me made to apply all laws strictly to them and do all that is possible to make them feel unwelcome in all other countries, in the first place not allowing any of them in and even offering the ones who are there money to leave, which I believe Denmark has begun to do. Islam is like a dangerous virus which destroys any country which allows it in. There should be quarantine against it, like dangerous viruses. Mosques and madrasses should be investigated and closed when they are found to be promoting terrorism. Anyone who teaches what is in the Qur’an is promoting terrorism and that should be made part of the law, not banning it but making it known that it is a manual of terrorism.
Panmelia says
Will we ever reach the day when these common sense steps are taken to save our own civilisation?
Not until we have true, non-PC leaders who concern themselves with their OWN people’s safety, security and interests to the exclusion of non-Westerners’ interests, with zero tolerance of the political ideology that masquerades as a religion.
This does not mean killing anyone, but it does mean deporting all muslims who refuse to relegate their religion to secondary importance in their lives and pledge loyalty to a country they CHOSE to live in.
Mosques and madrassas should be razed to the ground, and public preaching outlawed, including online. All the thousands of organisations, such as CAIR or the British Islamic Council, promoting islamic interests to be banned and muslim dress never to be worn in public.
If people want to continue their rug-kissing, it can be done in the privacy of their own homes, but their children will attend ordinary schools where no form of religion is mentioned.
Needless to say it won’t be easy. But those who don’t like it can return to their own islamic hellhole. It’s an adaptation of the islamic method of making non-muslims’ lives impossible in the countries that were conquered by the sword and jizyah. Relentless attrition and ostracism, but without the beheadings.
DFD says
I read about this today in the “Daily Telegraph (UK)”, paper edition, in a pub.
Would anybody surprised that the story is completely presented in CAIR’s view and the version of these women? Plus false statements such as over 40 tables were free. That the owners (or part of the owners) were Muslims themselves was of course not mentioned. Just that it was a case of racism and islamophobia.
I just finished about ten minutes going through their online edition, not mentioned there.
Strange as it may seem, I wish for much more of such incidents, and far, far more intense. People must be jerked out of their cloud cuckoo world.
Angemon says
DFD posted:
“I read about this today in the “Daily Telegraph (UK)”, paper edition, in a pub.
Would anybody surprised that the story is completely presented in CAIR’s view and the version of these women?”
I’m not. In fact, I’d be surprised if it were the other way around – if the story were told in a neutral, factual way. But I guess today’s “journalism” is mostly copy/pasting from somewhere else and a story about a minority acting like asshats wouldn’t draw in many clicks…
Tim says
This is absolutely ridiculous. The Muslims are intimidating to remove any form of obstacles their way. They are harassing their way into a position of power.
Toxick1 says
The muslims need to be run out of all the Western countries. Why are we sucking up to them anyway?
Florida Jim says
So many lawyers so many law suits is there a connection? Lawyers are a huge donator to Democrats as are every one of the the 19 constituencies the democrats use as bullies to drive America into Marxism.
Lawyers, unions, government employees, lobbyists, homosexuals, blacks, terrorists, illegals, students, professors, school administrators, Environmentalist agitators, open borders people, one-world enthusiasts, OWS clowns, Black Lives Matter fools,I may have missed some please forgive me.
If you are a victim made by democrats your party is calling you to HELL please join them and leave America to freedom.
Golem2 says
drawbridge Leftists?
E.L. Lay says
With all the frivolous lawsuits instituted by Muslims lately, it makes one wonder if this is how they make their money. The women are usually directed by their menfolk to sue for any reason if they feel mistreated. Most can lie convincingly to get what they want and feel no guilt when they are found out. It is part of their culture it seems, and their demands are becoming more prominent lately.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Of course it’s how the ‘make their $’! But what’s even more important: It’s how they keep the ‘islamophobia’ gravy train rolling along…
Which is why this owner fighting back is so important. This is someone saying, ‘Shove it muzz rats!’.
Stay tuned for the trial. CAIR ALWAYS LOSES.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Christina Zimmerman: You advocate ‘suing’ those who ‘spread hatred about muslims’? And suing this website too?
Are you an American madam? If so, you are abysmally ignorant about our 1st Amendment. You know: Freedom of Speech? Heard of that Christina?
However, I do have some VERY good news for you. There are many countries where free speech is criminalized. Those would be muslim countries, under Sharia Law. In those countries, not only can you SUE those who criticize islam: You can EXECUTE them madam!
Now I know you love Bill Maher, am I right? Take a look at his statements in re: The Religion of Peace: https://youtu.be/XA64SX_52m8