Mark Steyn's antagonist at the Canadian Islamic Congress threatens to sue me

by Ezra Levant
EzraLevant.com
July 26, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/421/mark-steyns-antagonist-at-the-canadian-islamic

Excerpt:

 Khurrum Awan, the youth president of the Jew-hating Canadian Islamic Congress, has threatened me with a lawsuit. You can see the rambling, typo-ridden libel notice here. (Seriously, Khurrum: spell check. It's free.)

Awan is an experienced practitioner in the soft jihad of "lawfare", the abusive practice where lawsuits are filed against critics of radical Islam just to harass them and silence them, Erin Brockovich-style. He's done it before: Awan fronted the CIC's three identical "human rights" complaints against Maclean's magazine for publishing an excerpt from Mark Steyn's best-selling book America Alone. Awan wasn't the actual complainant in those cases – the CIC's president, Mohamed Elmasry, was. But Awan was the public spokesman for those nuisance suits.

What does the Canadian Islamic Congress believe in?

Why did Elmasry need a sock puppet? Well, for starters, here's a video clip of Elmasry proudly justifying terrorist murders of Israeli civilians:

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