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The Saudis are suppressing speech, and getting books burned.
Posted by Rand Simberg at August 02, 2007 08:54 AM
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As long as the Saudis are not enforcing BusHitlerBurtonCheneyMcChimpy's Patriot Act (TM), then whatever else they do is A-OK. Besides, they are just unsophistimicated camel jockey Mohammedans. And they have brown skin.
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I AM quite disappointed that the UK libel laws allow deep pockets to intimidate publishers.
Are there any lawyers in the house? Do US libel laws make publishers here comparably vulnerable?
Posted by MG at August 2, 2007 12:04 PM
The story was quite different than what I expected when I clicked on it. I think I'd word the post "The British allow the Saudis to suppress speech." Still a creepy development.
Here's a link with some background on British libel laws:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2826201.ece
Posted by Tom at August 2, 2007 12:29 PM
It's no surprise that references to high placed Hadramautis like bin Mahfouz, Al Amoudi (an employer of Joe Wilson through an AIG project
in the sudan) et al; occur mostly in fiction,
in a Barry Eisler novel, and by description in
the Daniel Silva roman a clef the Messenger.
Posted by narciso at August 2, 2007 06:41 PM
An Islamic state suppresses free speech. Stop the presses!
Posted by Adrasteia at August 2, 2007 08:02 PM
About time all copies of the Koran in Mecca were burned - all at once, in a millisecond.
Posted by Fletcher Christian at August 3, 2007 10:41 AM
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