Specter Fails To Show At Free Speech Conference Under Pressure From Islamist Group

by Jillian Bandes
Townhall.com
May 19, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/371/specter-fails-to-show-at-free-speech-conference

Excerpt:

  Sen. Arlen Specter was set to give the opening address today at a conference on free speech addressing the prosecution of speech that is considered "hateful" abroad but is given First Amendment protections here in the U.S.  This scenario most readily applies to journalists, scholars and activists who publicly speak out or write critical material against radical Islam, such as the well-publicized case against Rachel Ehrenfeld over her work exposing al-Qaeda operative Khalid bin Mahfouz.

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