Excerpt: * The Legal Project <http://www.meforum.org/legal-project.php> was founded in 2007 to provide legal aid and research support for authors and analysts who work on the topics of terrorism, terrorist funding, and radical Islam, and to defend them from predatory lawsuits designed to intimidate them, censure their views, and curtail the exercise of free speech. It provides research support, training, pro-bono and reduced rate counsel, and raises public awareness about the threat of jihadi lawfare. Our current clients include Rachel Ehrenfeld, Joe Kaufman, and Bruce Tefft. Ehrenfeld, a writer and director of the American Center for Democracy <http://www.public-integrity.org/> , wrote that Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz had financial links to Al-Qaeda and Hamas. He sued her in January 2004 in a plaintiff-friendly British court, won by default, and was awarded £30,000 and an apology. Kaufman has been sued by Islamist organizations for leading a peaceful protest against the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) with an intent to raise public awareness about ICNAs ties to the financing of Hamas. Tefft, a counterterrorism analyst who was a consultant for the NYPD, has been sued as a co-defendant along with the NYPD for workplace harassment because he sent emails detailing the threat of radical Islamic terrorism to police officers who voluntarily received them. <http://www.danielpipes.org> Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes Mailing List November 27, 2007 Homepage <http://www.danielpipes.org> | Articles <http://www.danielpipes.org/art> | Weblog <http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/> | Reviews <http://www.danielpipes.org/rev/year/all> | Unsubscribe <http://www.danielpipes.org/unsubscribe.php> Dear Reader: As we approach the years end, I write to solicit your financial support for the Middle East Forum <http://www.meforum.org/> , the think tank I founded fourteen years ago and have since headed. MEFs activities complement and extend my efforts to explain the Middle East and Islam and to influence the public debate. Four strengths distinguish our efforts: * Positions. We have been right on defining Americas interests, often ahead of the curve in identifying them. Two positions that stand out are our focus on fighting radical Islam (rather than terrorism) and convincing the Palestinians to accept the Jewish state is a permanent fact of life. * Groundbreaking projects. Each of the Forums major initiativesthe Legal Project, Islamist Watch, Campus Watch, Middle East Quarterlyidentifies a distinct problem and addresses it. * Reach. The Forums three websites attract over 400,000 visitors a monthby far the highest number for any organization providing Middle East-focused information. * Good investment. The Forum is a well-managed, lean, but highly productive operation; our staff of 18 operates on a budget of under $2 million. MEF projects are multi-faceted and cover a broad range of issues: * Middle East <http://www.meforum.org/meq/> Quarterly, our flagship publication, is Americas most authoritative journal of Middle Eastern affairs. It is read and cited by world leaders, scholars, and journalists, has become the journal for the military to debate key issues, and provides a forum for moderate Muslims <http://www.meforum.org/article/1703> . It has also stayed true to its mission of publishing articles by the next <http://www.meforum.org/article/1059> generation of policymakers in addition to leading authorities. Its subsidiary website, www.mideastbookreviews.org <http://www.mideastbookreviews.org/> , is a repository of all book reviews that have appeared in MEQ and is a resource for academics, policy practitioners, and the general reader. * Campus Watch <http://www.campus-watch.org/> , established in 2002, critiques the extremist orthodoxy that dominates Middle East studies at North American universities. This October, the attempt to curtail free speech on campuses hit close to home when a professor of political science at the University of Delaware refused to participate on a panel with Campus Watch associate fellow Asaf <http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18969545&BRD=2737&PAG=461&de pt_id=576361&rfi=6> Romirowsky because the latter is a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces, leading to Romirowskys exclusion from the panel. In the past two months, Campus Watch has been attacked in the Nation <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071112/cohler-esses> , the Guardian <http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ghada_karmi/2007/10/intellectual_terror ism.html> , and by the American <http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/SO/Feat/Coll.htm> Association of University Professors. It must be doing something right. * Islamist Watch <http://www.meforum.org/islamist.php> is a project launched in 2006 to combat the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries. It exposes the far-reaching goals of Islamists, works to reduce their power, and seeks to strengthen moderate Muslims. In October, Islamist Watch was responsible for filing the Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the Article 78 proceeding (filed by the Stop <http://stopthemadrassa.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/stop-the-madrassa-files-law suit-in-state-supreme-court/> the Madrassa coalition in the N.Y. Supreme Court) against the New York City Department of Education after it established the Khalil Gibran <http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4441> International Academy (KGIA), a controversial new public school to teach Arabic history, culture, and language. * The Legal <http://www.meforum.org/legal-project.php> Project was founded in 2007 to provide legal aid and research support for authors and analysts who work on the topics of terrorism, terrorist funding, and radical Islam, and to defend them from predatory lawsuits designed to intimidate them, censure their views, and curtail the exercise of free speech. It provides research support, training, pro-bono and reduced rate counsel, and raises public awareness about the threat of jihadi lawfare. Our current clients include Rachel Ehrenfeld, Joe Kaufman, and Bruce Tefft. Ehrenfeld, a writer and director of the American Center for <http://www.public-integrity.org/> Democracy, wrote that Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz had financial links to Al-Qaeda and Hamas. He sued her in January 2004 in a plaintiff-friendly British court, won by default, and was awarded £30,000 and an apology. Kaufman has been sued by Islamist organizations for leading a peaceful protest against the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) with an intent to raise public awareness about ICNAs ties to the financing of Hamas. 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