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National — June 12, 2019   

Dean Obeidallah Wins Big In Neo-Nazi Defamation Case

Original article by Jeremy Silk Smith published in the Law and Crime on 06/12/2019

Photo Credit: Law and Crime
Photo Credit: Law and Crime

According to Law and Crime:

A federal court has ruled on Wednesday that the publishers of the neo-Nazi and white nationalist website, the Daily Stormer, must pay $4.1 million to the SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah for publishing defamatory statements about him.

“American Muslims should be able to take part in public life without being threatened or attacked,” Obeidallah said in a statement. “This ruling sends a clear message that Muslim voices will not be silenced by threats and hate.”

In August 2017, Obeidallah, Muslim Advocates and other co-plaintiffs, sued the Daily Stormer and its founder, Andrew Anglin, for publishing an article that called Obiedallah a terrorist. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled for the full award of his lawsuit since Anglin did not contest the case. The ruling also placed a permanent injunction against the defaming article…

Juvaria Khan, the senior staff attorney at Muslim Advocates, said that Wednesday’s ruling “is a victory for all American Muslims in public life and for everyone who opposes hate.” She added, “the uncontroverted evidence shows that the Daily Stormer knowingly published false smears based on fabricated evidence. That is not free speech—that is a dangerous, reckless disregard for the truth.”

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