Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Libel Tourism: 95,000 'Descendants' of Mohammed to Sue Over Cartoons. . . .


According to jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com:

Before you laugh, consider this suit will be taking place in Britain, and there's already precedent for insanity. I'm surprised they've only got 95,000 plaintiffs. Why not just come up with 10 million? A billion?. . . .

. . . .“Direct descendants of the prophet have a particular place within Muslim society . . . By effectively criticising and making fun of the prophet you are, by implication, holding them up to scandal, contempt and public ridicule,” he said. “So it may be that they will suffer some kind of damage among their own community. The question is, is that defamatory in English law?”

. . . .It'll be interesting to see how these 95,000 "descendants" of Mohammed prove they're related.

To read the full article go to jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com