Libel Tourism: The Soft Jihad [video]

If you think the only weapons of jihadis are guns and bombs, you're wrong. They're already using lawsuits to push Sharia law and silence free speech. Last Thursday, PJM's Roger Kimball hosted a conference on “Free Speech in An Age of Jihad: Libel Tourism, “Hate Speech,” and Political Freedom” at the Princeton Club in New York.

April 19, 2008

Related links:

The Libel Tourist (YouTube)

“Libel Tourism” on Wikipedia

“Libel Tourism: Coming Soon to a Town Near You” by Roger Kimball

The Foundation for Defense of Deomocracies

The New Criterion

American Center for Democracy

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9 Comments

1. njartist:

Excellent. Thank you.

Apr 19, 2008 - 2:43 pm 2. Luther McLeod:

The video is not available… that’s the message I get. And what is the difference between ’submit’ and ‘post’… is one with chains and the other without.

Apr 19, 2008 - 7:34 pm 3. Josef Finn:

Informative and educational. Thank you.

Apr 20, 2008 - 2:02 pm 4. nocompromise:

Go after the dhimmis!!! Thank you for your work!

Remember, that kafirs are not equal to muslims in a Shari’ah court, so why are they equal in our courts? Yes, it’s rhetorical, but it is a question that needs to be raised and pondered!

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[...] Libel Tourism: The Soft Jihad If you think the only weapons of jihadis are guns and bombs, you’re wrong. They’re already using lawsuits to push Sharia law and silence free speech. Last Thursday, PJM’s Roger Kimball hosted a conference on “Free Speech in An Age of Jihad: Libel Tourism, “Hate Speech,” and Political Freedom” at the… [...]

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Jun 27, 2008 - 11:18 am 9. Bipartisan movement in Congress for freedom of speech (and against libel tourism) [Karl]:

[...] who have raised the profile of this issue, both by writing backgrounders and recently hosting a conference addressing it.  There are others, to be sure.  However, as most of the high-profile cases to date [...]

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