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Hot Air audio: How one wealthy jihad supporter is using UK courts to kill American free speech
Hot Air ^ | 8/2/07 | Bryan

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binmafouz; crushislam; islam; islamicterrorism; jihad; khalidbinmafouz; muslims; saudi; saudiarabia; saudis; terror; trop; wot
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Click on the link and listen to this important interview and learn how wealthy Saudis are using the UK courts to silence American authors and get their books banned across the globe.
1 posted on 08/02/2007 5:29:20 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: twonie

Arms aid for the Saudis is just beyond stupid.


3 posted on 08/02/2007 5:44:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Folks, every day we give the Middle Eastern oil suppliers an additional $700 million dollars per day when the price of oil goes up by $10. We are financing them because we won’t drill for oil offshore and in the Arctic.


4 posted on 08/02/2007 5:48:23 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

It is unavailable from Amazon or Cambridge Press, but I was able to locate it on Alibris. They had 10 copies priced at $94 bucks! Located in the United Kingdom.


5 posted on 08/02/2007 5:49:26 AM PDT by EBH
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To: EBH
It is unavailable from Amazon or Cambridge Press, but I was able to locate it on Alibris. They had 10 copies priced at $94 bucks! Located in the United Kingdom.

I just searched the website of my local public library and they have a copy and it's on the shelf.I'm gonna take it out and scan it.

6 posted on 08/02/2007 5:56:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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It’s still on sale at Amazon.com.

So what gives with this report???

“alms for jihad”

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Alms for Jihad : Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World by J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins (Paperback - Mar 20 2006)
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7 posted on 08/02/2007 6:06:31 AM PDT by micho
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To: micho

It’s not on sale at Amazon-Great Britain.
That’s the subject of the article.


8 posted on 08/02/2007 6:09:02 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD -"What would Jack Bauer do?")
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To: EBH
Amazon.com: Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude: by Robert Baer

This book tells about the same thing. How a mosque came to be constructed in Grandview, MO, south of Kansas City is detailed on page 78.

9 posted on 08/02/2007 6:13:53 AM PDT by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting Iran in Iraq, we can't pretend to win the war.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
From Amazon.com 30 seconds ago:

Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World (Hardcover) (6 customer reviews)

Availability: Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.
10 posted on 08/02/2007 6:17:59 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: twonie

“THese wouldn’t be the same Saudis that our president is dealing with now in such a favorable way, would they?”

There was a picture last year of Bush holding hands with one pf the Saudi princes, walking along swinging their arms together like two schoolgirls.

I think Bush is blind in one eye.


11 posted on 08/02/2007 6:19:32 AM PDT by RoadTest (You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.” —Winston Churchill)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Giving muslims access to western courts is as suicidal as letting communists organize in our government. All of them will use any power they get to take away other peoples freedom and advance their ideology/religion.

Whereas christians and secularists the two ideologies of the modern west.. both believe in justice and the importance of free will and freedom.


12 posted on 08/02/2007 6:25:34 AM PDT by ran20
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To: micho
Is that Amazon Canada? It's not available in the US:

Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World (Hardcover)

Availability: Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.


13 posted on 08/02/2007 6:35:38 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: Redbob

It’s also not available on Amazon in the US


14 posted on 08/02/2007 6:36:37 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Oh sorry, yes, it’s Amazon.CA - it’s still available up here.


15 posted on 08/02/2007 6:57:11 AM PDT by micho
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Amazon has a note that the book was withdrawn from publication yesterday. They probably couldn't get any more copies even if they wanted to.

This pandering to the muslims is disgusting. No wonder England is already lost.

16 posted on 08/02/2007 7:09:50 AM PDT by auntyfemenist (Card carrying conservative, William F. Buckley fan.)
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To: twonie
Will the Saudi’s hire Filipinos to fire the weapons?

Lord knows they cannot do anything for themselves. ;)

17 posted on 08/02/2007 7:19:04 AM PDT by allmendream
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To: PajamaTruthMafia; All

Here is another very disturbing article on this from the NY Sun. IMHO, this is very, bad, folks:

http://www.nysun.com/article/59706

“Libel Suit Leads to Destruction of Books”
By GARY SHAPIRO
Staff Reporter of the Sun
August 2, 2007

Small excerpt:

[A professor at Emory University, who won a libel suit in Britain brought against her and Penguin, Deborah Lipstadt, likewise told The New York Sun that this action by Cambridge University Press was a “frightening development.” She said that it seemed to her that the Saudis were “systematically, case by case, book by book” challenging anything critical of them or anything that linked them to terrorism. She said that she could not think of any publisher that would now accept a manuscript critical of the Saudis. “This affects not only authors but readers,” she said, adding that “ideas are being chased out of the marketplace.”]


18 posted on 08/02/2007 8:04:05 AM PDT by khnyny (The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Gay State Conservative
It is unavailable from Amazon or Cambridge Press, but I was able to locate it on Alibris. They had 10 copies priced at $94 bucks! Located in the United Kingdom.

I just searched the website of my local public library and they have a copy and it's on the shelf.I'm gonna take it out and scan it.

I ordered and paid for an electronic copy Monday early afternoon from BooksOnBoard.com
By late afternoon, I had been notified that it had been removed from the site that morning and I got notice of a VISA refund this (Tuesday) morning.

I was so angry that the idea of borrowing someone's copy, scanning it and distributing it in the most common formats on the web for free had occured to me...

Let Prince Sh**forbrains deal with that!

Good luck with your efforts.

19 posted on 08/14/2007 10:49:42 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: auntyfemenist
Amazon has a note that the book was withdrawn from publication yesterday. They probably couldn't get any more copies even if they wanted to.
This pandering to the muslims is disgusting. No wonder England is already lost.

This is what I printed Monday Morning when I thought I had purchased an electronic copy of it with the necessary reader:

> Thank you for ordering from (site name deleted) Please keep this receipt for > your records.
> To download your purchases:
>
> 1. Log onto your account on (Site name deleted)
> 2. Click on Order History.
> 3. Click on the View Details and Downloads link provided next to the
> Order Number.
> >At the download link I can see this:
>"purchase.Retailer Download and "(756kb)". >
> After step 3, as directed, I do not get a screen that allows me to download
> anything. Instead, I get this page:
> (Link sent me to the home page)

Reply to request for help:
Hi,
Thank you for your purchase of Alms for Jihad. Unfortunately, the litigation apparently caught up with ebooks mid-afternoon today and was pulled from the download server by the publisher. I apologize for your inconvenience.

We will process a refund in full for this purchase.
And that was that.

The irony is, that if Prince Nummnads had not done his thing, I would not have ever heard of this book. Now I will do everything in my power both to get a copy and to give further copies away.

20 posted on 08/14/2007 11:11:13 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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