Libel Lawfare Conference Probes New Islamist Tactic Of Intimidation Via The Courts

by Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer
PipeLineNews.org
May 21, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/335

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 May 21, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On Tuesday May 19th the first "Libel Lawfare" conference was held in Washington DC, organized to call attention to an aspect of the Islamists' stealth jihad in which spurious lawsuits and legal proceeding are used to intimidate its rightful critics.

It was presented by The Federalist Society's International & National Security Law Practice Group, The Legal Project of The Middle East Forum, The Center for National Security Law and The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Libel lawfare is defined as "the use of the law and legal institutions to achieve military, political or strategic objectives. In recent years, lawfare has come to include libel litigation aimed at suppressing public dialogue about radical Islam and terrorism. Parties with financial means have been filing lawsuits in American courts and abroad against people who speak out against or write critically about radical Islam. Defendants include authors, researchers, journalists, politicians and human rights advocacy groups."

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