Posted on 08/02/2007 5:29:16 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of this story. The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub. required) on Wednesday published an article about Khalid bin Mafouz, a wealthy Saudi banker, and his successful effort to persuade the Cambridge University Press to halt the publication of four books that detail how Saudi citizens use their wealth to finance global terrorism. One of those books, Alms for Jihad, was once on sale at Amazon and elsewhere, but it has been pulled from sale and copies of it are now being pulped. Cambridge has even sent out letters to libraries that stock it and the other three books, asking for their return so that they too can be pulped, meaning they will soon disappear, burying the details they contain on how terrorism finance works and who is behind it.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld of the American Center for Democracy is one of the authors whose books have been subject to judicial attack by Khalid bin Mafouz. I interviewed her about the case of the censorious jihad financier, and Cambridge Press’ cowardly capitulation to him. She is the author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. She is the only author to date who is fighting back.
I have no intention of giving up continuing to look for a copy to rent, borrow or steal.
Even the Saudis, with their millions, can't neutralize the ownership of a book by an individual in a free society.
Just saying.
Two reasons: books are one of my passions, and Two: I despise the notion that, having enough money, anyone can cow and intimidate someone else from publishing a book. Any book.
Did I say I despise islam? The behavior, not the religion-cum-politics-cum-stifling-behavior-thingie.
Before details disappear, here are all the references. This part particularly encourages me in my seearch for a copy:
Also available in eBook format
There must be hundreds of copies out there...
Millard Burr,J. and Collins, R.O. (2006) Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Hardback - ISBN-13: 9780521857307 | ISBN-10: 0521857309)
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For all who are still interested.
(Prince) Khalid Bin Mahfouz is the muslim from Ireland(?) who successfully prevented the further sale of the book. More about this element of world-wide terrorism here...
Saudis are funding terrorism. What else is new? I don’t understand why this country treats them like royalty! Oh yes I do - they might get mad and cut off the flow of oil.
Within which is the following statement explaining why the courts supported the Sheik in his successful attempt to ban the book through the publisher:
"Throughout the book there are serious and defamatory allegations about yourself and your family, alleging support for terrorism through your businesses, family and charities, and directly.
"As a result of what we now know, we accept and acknowledge that all of those allegations about you and your family, businesses and charities are entirely and manifestly false."
Emphasis is mine.
This does not exclude the "indirectly" truth. With enough money, as many degrees of separation is easly bought to finance any perversion or evil imaginary.
By not suing the authors, this possible minor semantic legal trap, as well as the British legal system, were exploited by the man, without exposing himself to further legal scrutiny and the sordid factual details of the accusations.
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