<![CDATA[Islam and the First Amendment]]>Hitchens was right when he said unindicted co-conspirator CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper hasn’t “read nor understood” the First Amendment. Islamists have been using the threat of lawsuits to have books destroyed. The books just happen to be about how Islamic terror gets funded.

Here’s a story with huge implications for freedom of speech (all negative), and it’s apparently gone almost entirely unreported in the mainstream press. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, under threat of a law suit, Cambridge University Press has just agreed to pulp all unsold copies of the 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. According to the Chronicle, this is the fourth such book on terrorism funding to be pursued by a libel action. The Chronicle quotes Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, whose own book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed–and How to Stop It is one of the four books.

Publishers who cave to this kind of pressure are despicable weaklings. But, then, if you publish a book critical of any other religion, nobody threatens to behead you. So radical Islam is the most despicable party in this.

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