Lori Saroya, who worked for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Minnesota, filed a defamation lawsuit last week against the organization in which she claimed she brought forth complaints of sexual assault and harassment against CAIR leaders, the New York Post reported Thursday. She claimed that one leader “engaged in a pattern of unwelcome and highly inappropriate conduct” toward her and that she left CAIR after asking the group to look into the complaints.

Saroya, who now serves on the city council in Blaine, Minn., filed the suit in response to a January 2022 press release from CAIR that accused her of “cyberstalking.” In response to the alleged misconduct, the group had filed a 2021 suit against her. …

“CAIR’s defamatory statements about me were intended to intimidate not just me but others like me. The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold CAIR and its leadership to account—something which has been much too long in coming,” she told the outlet, adding that she could not comment on much else while her legal case was pending.

[Keep an eye on this one. The motions and discovery should be fascinating. — Ed]