The lawsuit:

Muslim leader threatens blog with legal action The head of a leading UK Muslim organization is threatening legal action against a popular blog for posting a statement made by him in which he allegedly used the phrase “evil Jew”. The blog Harry’s Place said that in an address made in Arabic to Al-Jazeera at last month’s Salute to Israel parade in London’s Trafalgar Square, Mohammed Sawalha, president of the British Muslim Initiative (BMI) and founder of the annual Islam Expo, a four-day event enhancing understanding of Islam in Britain, had said: “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.” The speech was reported on Harry’s Place, which claimed Al-Jazeera had changed the controversial word appearing in its original report, translated as “evil or “baneful” by the blog, to “lobby” some time later. Harry’s Place said that Sawalha was a key figure in the Muslim Brotherhood and the BBC identifies him as a senior Hamas activist. He is also a trustee of the North London Mosque, formerly the controversial Finsbury Park Mosque – frequented by Al-Qaeda operatives including “shoe-bomber” Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui. Denying the allegation, BMI issued a press release which it posed in the comments section of the blog entry, and Al-Jazeera reporter Medyan Dairieh who also appears in the thread, insisted that Sawalha had spoken of the “Jewish lobby”.