[lit-ideas] Re: CAIR vs. Robert Spencer
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:09:05 +0100
sounds a bit like NORAID, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID
Incidentally, I wrote
>They (CAIR) got a
>llawyer
to write a letter to YAF telling them -- in effect -- either to call off
>the panel or rid if of defamatory content. Now of course such
>letters have a chilling effect on free speech. But only a raving loon
>would pretend a) that this kind of behaviour is anything other than
>rabidly 'Western/capitalist', b) that it is -- or even amounts to --
>a fatwa.
(I now realise I did think you were saying CAIR had issued a fatwa, I
realised rather early on that that wasn't it, anyway....)
and I stand by this condemnation of such actions (qualified by an
understanding that they may on occasion be needed) and my "only...
capitalist' above.)
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