Lawfare Part 1
How Islamist Lawfare Tactics Are Targeting Free Speech

by Brooke Goldstein and Aaron Eitan Meyer
The Counter Terrorist
February/March 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/185

Are American authors who write about terrorism and its sources of financing safe? Are counter terrorist advisors to the New York City Police department safe? Are U.S. congressmen safe when they report terrorist- front groups to the FBI and CIA? Are cartoonists who parody Mohammad safe from arrest?

Must a Dutch politician who produced a documentary film quoting the Koran stand trial for blasphemy of Islam in Jordan? Is anyone who speaks publicly on the threat of radical Islam safe from frivolous and malicious lawsuits designed to bankrupt, punish, and silence them? These days, the answer is no.

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