January 16, 2009, - 12:16 pm
SLAPP: Future Docs Who Signed Pro-HAMAS Petition Try to Silence Schlussel, Threaten Lawsuit
By Debbie Schlussel
There’s a legal concept known as SLAPP–Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. When people who want to silence you and take away your First Amendment rights because you are using those rights to expose them, they slap you with a SLAPP.
This litigation jihad is a common practice of CAIR, the Flying Imams, and other Muslims who want to shut up their critics. And now–not for the first time–I’ve been threatened by them.
The other day, I posted the names of all of those medical students who signed a pro-HAMAS, anti-Israel statement. Now, some of those future doctors are upset when they find that my article on their petition is atop google in results for their names. But they’ve grown up in the internet age. They know better. And, frankly, if they’re not smart enough to know that when they sign a public anti-Israel petition, word gets around, then maybe they really aren’t smart enough to operate on your body or prescribe treatment for it.
Now, some of those future doctors are so upset that they’re threatening to sue me. I’m not worried. They knew what they were doing and they need to face the fact that in this country, it is subject to public scrutiny.
Take Muslim Yale Medical School student Omer Ibrahim. A foreigner who was granted U.S. citizenship, he wants to become a psychiatrist, and he’s upset that I exposed that he signed the petition. But the guy has obvious anger management issues, and his e-mails indicate that instead of becoming a psychiatrist, he should see one. Oh, and I love his F-word bedside manner. Would go over real well at any of America’s fine hospitals. To be fair, future doc Ibrahim, when pressed, says he condemns HAMAS, though we shall see if he responds to my request to condemn HAMAS’ anti-Semitic charter and its attacks on Israel.
But the petition he signed–while not mentioning HAMAS–is quite clear. It’s a lying, anti-Israel petition in “solidarity” with “the people of Gaza.” That’s HAMAS.
Read future Dr. Ibrahim’s e-mail exchange with me:
From: Omer Ibrahim omer.ibrahim@yale.edu
Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Subject: Future Doctors Against Hamas – You BETTER read this
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Hi
Ummmmm so I just saw your post on “Future Doctors Who Support Hamas,” and I would just like to point out a SMALL but crucial fact (#2 on this list). . . .
2) Here’s the FUNNIEST part. You’ll love this. In American Law, what you posted would be labelled as libel and slander. And JUST IMAGINE EVEY SINGLE person on that list will be making a salary in the 6 figure digits. MEANING with at least HALF of them suing you for this clear and utter slander against their character, you will be in so much fucking debt that your grandchildren are going to need
lawyers.
I would think about THAT before you decide to wage a war against one of this society’s most influential and powerful people. If I were you, I’d delete that post. ASAP.
Hmmm . . . what does he mean by “this society’s most influential and powerful people”? Who is that? Muslims?
From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: Future Doctors Against Hamas – You BETTER read this
To: Omer Ibrahim omer.ibrahim@yale.edu
Will you condemn HAMAS? . . . [W]here are you from?
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From: Omer Ibrahim omer.ibrahim@yale.edu
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: Future Doctors Against Hamas – You BETTER read this
To: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
I will GLADLY condemn HAMAS. Anyone would! But the fact that you clumped every single med student with Hamas, you are screwed. It doesnt matter where I am from. You are screwed. You KNOW that we did NOT sign that petition trying to support Hamas. you KNOW it.
Um, actually, I know that they were, indeed, trying to support HAMAS. Otherwise they wouldn’t have signed that lying, anti-Israel petition.
You were trying to change up the facts. All I am
saying to you right now is, you are in LEGAL trouble. It has NOTHING to do with me or what I say right now. You just slandered half of the nation’s current med students . . . . It’s your conscience you have to deal with. NOt to mention your wallet, because my friend in California (all the way across the US) saw your post on Google. All I have to say, is that you fucked up all of our medical careers, and be prepered for the backlash. You have no idea who you picked a fight with. You have NO FUCKING idea.
Reality Check: The people who signed this petition are the ones who “f-cked up” their medical careers and did to themselves whatever happens to them as a result of this. I must be “prepered [sic] for the backlash”? Hmmm . . . is that a threat to my life? Read the two sentences after that. Sure sounds like it. Again, this is a future psychiatrist? Hello . . .?
From: Omer Ibrahim omer.ibrahim@yale.edu
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: Future Doctors Against Hamas – You BETTER read this
To: Omer Ibrahim oi9@pantheon.yale.edu, Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
It’s a legal issue now. I am taking it there. I did not break my back to move to this country, struggle for the US citizenship, struggle…no, FIGHT to get into medical school, to be faced with this. I am sorry, but I am taking legal action. . . . Next time, you will think before you post slander like this. I swear to god, you better think before you do this again. You will be hearing from the rest of us again shortly. and I promise you.
Actually, next time, you and your friends will think twice about signing pan-terrorist petitions. But I’m glad you and your friends didn’t this time around and tipped us all off to their true extremist views.
The last e-mail I got from him says this:
I clearly don’t give a damn of whether you get sued into the ground or not. Have a miserable life.
I’ve asked Mr. Future Doc Omer Ibrahim, again, where he is originally from. I’ve also asked him whether he will specifically condemn HAMAS attacks on Israel and HAMAS’ anti-Semitic, anti-Israel charter. Will let you know if and when he responds.
That’s what great about America of the 20th and 21st century.
Muslims flood in our country with the help of the U.S. government and cleverly use our laws against us.
And with liberal judges ruling in their favor, they gradually take over our country with the help of massive immigration, extremely high birthrate and yes, soon to be allowed for them, polygamy.
Don’t be surprised to see Islamic Law (Shari’a) applied in America.
Don’t be surprised if you hear at 5 a.m. the loud sound of the “call for prayer” (Azan) coming from the minaret of a Mosque -newly built with U.S. government funds- near you.
Don’t be surprised to see more hijabs, burqas and niqabs flooding in every shopping center, mall and street in America.
Don’t be surprised to see a U.S. president swearing on the Qur’an one day.
Don’t be surprised to see the new “United Islamic Emirates of America.”
Independent Conservative on January 16, 2009 at 1:39 pm