Muslim Sues UK Blogger
This week's protest by Palestinians against excavation work near Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem led to this protest by the British Muslim Initiative on Whitehall, opposite Downing Street.
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A tip of the turban 
to Blogging for a free world for alerting us to Harry's Place who is being sued by Hamas UK (1). Mohammad Sawalha, President of the British Muslim Initiative, spoke to Al Jazeera in Arabic about his demonstration against the celebration of the foundation of the State of Israel. Herr Sawalha told them, "We, the Arab and Islamic community, gather here today to express our resentment at the celebrations by the Jewish community and the [evil Jew/Jewish evil] in Britain”.
Later, Al Jazeera changed the text from "evil Jew" to “the Jewish Lobby”.
Harry's Place, British Muslim Initiative: We Resent the Evil Jew in Britain
It is pretty well known that Islamists in the West habitually say one thing to their English speaking audience, and another thing to their Arabic speaking audience.
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The original text contained the word الوبيل. It means “evil” or “noxious” or “dreaded” or “disasterous”. We’ve asked other Arabic speakers, and they’ve confirmed that, combined with the word “Jew”, the sense of the phrase is “Evil Jew” or “Jewish evil”.That word has been replaced with “lobby”, اللوبي. The words don’t look at all similar. So this isn’t a spelling mistake.
If we wait a little bit longer, I bet they’ll change it to “the Zionist Lobby”.
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ENDNOTES
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Harry's Place, We’re Being Sued By Hamas UK
Last Friday, in the wake of a closely argued debate about whether Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, had used the phrase “Evil Jew” or “Jewish Lobby” in a speech, Harry’s Place received a letter.
The letter is from Dean and Dean, a firm of solicitors who are acting for Mr Sawalha. Mr Sawalha has demanded that we take down certain articles from Harry’s Place, and publish an apology “in the attached
wording”.The solicitors have failed to attach the apology that Mr Sawalha insists we publish. That omission matters little, as we have no intention of apologising to him at all, nor of taking down any article.
We have responded to Mr Sawalha’s solicitors, through Mishcon de Reya, who are acting for us.
Mr Sawalha claims that we have “chosen a malevolent interpretation of a meaningless word”. In fact, we did no more than translate a phrase which appeared in an Al Jazeera report of Mr Sawalha’s speech. When Al Jazeera changed that phrase from “Evil Jew” to “Jewish Lobby”, we reported that fact, along with the statement that it had been a typographical error.
