Welcome To The Machine: Jihad Financiers Sue For Secrecy
By RACHEL EHRENFELD
Banned in Britain: Ehrenfeld’s book.
From the NY Post:
August 8, 2007 — THE Saudis’ efforts to keep a veil of secrecy over their sup port for al Qaeda and Hamas got a shot in the arm last week, as a British publisher opted to suppress a controversial book on the financing of terror.
Facing the mere threat of a lawsuit from Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz, Cambridge University Press agreed to pulp all the unsold copies of “Alms of Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World,” issue a public apology to Mahfouz and pay his legal expenses and substantial undisclosed damages.
The prestigious publisher - the world’s oldest publishing house - had carefully vetted the book before publishing it last year. Yet now it has asked more than 200 libraries worldwide to pull the work off their shelves.
Bin Mahfouz never sued the authors, J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins, both U.S. citizens, who had provided their publisher with all the sources to back their allegations that bin Mahfouz, his family and his former bank, the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, funded Hamas and al Qaeda. Yet Cambridge University Press still caved - and even asked the authors to join its apology to bin Mahfouz. (They rightly refused.)
Since March 2002, bin Mahfouz has sued or threatened suit in England at least 36 times against those who’ve linked him to terrorism, including many American authors and publications. Everyone settled with bin Mahfouz - except me.
He sued me in London in January 2004, shortly after my book “Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It” was published in the United States. I refused to acknowledge a British court’s jurisdiction over a book published here; the court then ruled in bin Mahfouz’s favor by default. It enjoined British publication of “Funding Evil,” awarded bin Mahfouz $225,900 in damages and expenses and ordered that I publicly apologize and destroy the book. I still refuse to acknowledge the British Court and its ruling.
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
So, Where do we get a copy in the US? Sounds to me that there is a lot of good informaitoni here.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:34 amAnother example of how Bush’s romance with Saudi has shown how inept his war on terror is.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:51 am$11 gets you a copy:
http://www.amazon.com/Funding-Evil-Updated-Terrorism-Financed/dp/1566252318
August 8th, 2007 at 10:53 am[quote]I still refuse to acknowledge the British Court and its ruling.[/quote]
As well you SHOULD’NT! The Saudis are NOT our allies.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:08 amWhere the hell does a court in Britain get the idea they can make a ruling on events that transpire in the United States?
Last time I looked we had a little frackas over the rule of British law on this side of the pond a couple hundred years ago.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:11 am0431,
August 8th, 2007 at 9:22 pmThe saudis aren’t our allies as much as they are our buisness partners with mutual financial and security concerns. Our survival strongly influences theirs. They must walk the fence that divides the west and the east. We have to have a position of influence, preferably a strong one, to have any influence there. And, regrettably, we must be able to accept casualties as a price of doing buisiness.
Crude, yes, but remember that you’re dealing with the arab mind.
regards,
jak