For Whom The Bell Tolls: Ehrenfeld vs Bin Mahfouz

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 23, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/248/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-ehrenfeld-vs-bin-mahfouz

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“The Saudis are Coming, the Saudis are Coming”–and this time they mean to tax and silence us via lawsuit not via military action. Paul Revere’s pre-Revolutionary alarm about “The British are Coming” might still apply since British Law is now actively aiding and abetting the Saudi Crusade against Freedom of Speech in the West.

Where are all the First Ammendment fanatics when we need them? Actually–they are all here. (See below for the incredible line-up of organizations that submitted an Amicus Curiae brief).

First, for our hero. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote a book “Funding Evil. How Terrorism Is Financed–and How to Stop It.” One of the funders whom she named is Khalid Salim Bin Mahfouz–who sued Ehrenfeld in London because, although Ehrenfeld does not live, work, or publish in England, 23 people based in the UK bought her book on the Internet.

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