'Lawfare' gains ground
U.N. resolution on 'defaming' a case in point

by Brooke Goldstein and Aaron Eitan Meyer
Washington Times
May 19, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1725/lawfare-gains-ground

Excerpt:

The United Nations recently passed resolutions that would make "defaming" Islam a globally criminal act. The United Kingdom first refused entry to Geert Wilders, a sitting European Parliament member and Islamist critic, and now has issued a list banning 16 other individuals, which includes some banned solely for their exercise of free speech.

"Faith Fighter," an online video game featuring various religious figures, attracted considerable attention and controversy, but was removed after the Organization of the Islamic Conference threatened the game's producers. Valentina Colombo, an Italian professor, wrote about an Islamist who said liberal Muslims could be killed as apostates; he has now sued her for damaging his credibility as a "moderate."

And the United States is not immune. As the presidential election race was under way, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Committee claiming that "Obsession," a candidate-neutral documentary on terrorism, somehow constituted improper election activity.

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