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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (12507)	8/1/2007 7:24:02 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Have you heard the latest intimidation by CAIR(largest Muslim civil liberties group in the US)? The founder of the website www.jihadwatch.org was scheduled to appear at the Young America's Foundation. That organization received a letter from CAIR demanding that they either cancel Robert Spencer's session or make certain he says nothing "false or defamatory" during his speech. Here's Michelle Malkin's report on the incident: >>August 1, 2007 Where are all the free-speech activists when you need them? Well, when it comes to protecting the free speech of those who criticize jihad and its apologists, the free-speech protectors are hiding under their bedcovers. Wetting their pants. Covering their ears, squeezing their eyes shut, and rocking themselves to sleep. A threatening letter was sent from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to the head of the Young America’s Foundation. YAF is holding its annual student conference this week in Washington. I spoke there yesterday, as did many other noted conservatives. Intrepid author and Jihad Watch founder Robert Spencer is scheduled to speak there tomorrow. CAIR is demanding that Spencer be shut down.< The following is Robert Spencer's response re the letter: "Note the personal smears, the attempt to bully and intimidate, and the non-specificity of the charges against me (they can’t be specific, because I don’t say anything inaccurate about them — or about Islam or jihad). Note also the irony: this letter comes a day after CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper slandered me on national television by ascribing to me hateful words written by someone else — which appeared on this site for about an hour, during which, lo and behold, someone at CAIR was watching. I was speaking to a YAF official who told me that I was scheduled to speak as planned: “CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.” My own reply to CAIR: remember McAuliffe at Bastogne." Michelle again >Bravo. It’s good to see YAF and Robert refuse to be intimidated. We’ll be covering the speech that CAIR doesn’t want you to hear at Hot Air. So stay tuned for that. This is no isolated incident. CAIR has been targeting Spencer for years, and was successful in intimidating National Review into pulling a book from its book service for which Spencer had written an ad. CAIR has targeted several conservative talk radio hosts, the anti-CAIR website, scholar Daniel Pipes, author/journalist David Frum, and veteran conservative commentator Cal Thomas in a bid to silence dissent about its jihad-sympathizing ways. Where have all the free-speech crusaders gone?<