Will 'legal jihad' silence online critics of Islam?
Court wades into brewing battle over rights of Internet journalists

by Drew Zahn
WorldNetDaily
July 4, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/408/will-legal-jihad-silence-online-critics-of-islam

Excerpt:

 When Internet journalist Joe Kaufman wrote an article exposing terrorist connections in two American Muslim groups, he was sued by a swarm of Islamic organizations, none of which he had mentioned in his online article.

The technique is called by some "legal jihad" or "Islamist lawfare," and theThomas More Law Center, which is representing Kaufman in the lawsuit, claims Muslim advocates are using the strategy to bully online journalists into silence.

"The lawsuit against Kaufman was funded by the Muslim Legal Fund for America. The head of that organization, Khalil Meek, admitted on a Muslim radio show that lawsuits were being filed against Kaufman and others to set an example," claims a Thomas More statement on the case. "Indeed, for the last several years, Muslim groups in the U.S. have engaged in the tactic of filing meritless lawsuits to silence any public discussion of Islamic terrorist threats."

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