Free Speech Under Threat

by Jillian Bandes
Townhall.com
May 20, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/340

Excerpt:

 After feeling pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Sen. Arlen Specter cancelled his appearance at a conference Tuesday on free speech protections, bringing attention to some of the of the very issues the conference was designed to highlight.

"Libel Lawfare: Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam" focused on the prosecution of American citizens under foreign libel laws, which are typically much looser than First Amendment speech protections in the U.S. Foreign laws are commonly targeted at Americans who publish or speak about controversial issues such as Islamic terrorism; if an American criticizes a foreign national and the foreign national doesn't like it, lawsuits can loom.

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