Although I don't have a shred of proof that the most fanatical simultaneous purveyors of creationist and antisemitic agit-prop in the Muslim world actually have anything to do with it. it seems to me that some of the information from the people who run the SB site (repeated by Orac) seems a bit...well...suspect:
Let me apologize again for the problems that many of you and your readers are experiencing. The attack is ongoing, originating from Turkey and Qatar, and until it stops, Rackspace must block IP ranges in order for the site to be accessible to anyone.
This smells more than a bit fishy, seeing as a description of the Yahya organization's harassment tactics comes exceedingly close to instantly evoking the word "cult-like":
But with so many ideas taken up and discarded, and their leader facing jail, might the group be nearing exhaustion? True, the Science Research Foundation and the followers have initiated thousands of court cases. Three hundred alone were brought against the model and one-time sympathiser Ebru Simsek, who spoke out against Oktar after she refused his advances, and a barrage of faked naked photos of her were made public. Oktar’s followers have shot thousands of compromising videos of everyone who has come into intimate contact with the group. They have intimidated prosecutors, judges and lawyers with endless streams of complaints and faxed denunciations and printed libellous advertisements in the Islamist media, defaming their critics. They have been especially effective on the internet, setting up numerous websites to denounce their enemies, while using the Turkish courts to silence them – the Dawkins site is just one of dozens they have had banned. “They may be only a few hundred people,” one lawyer told me, “but the damage they have inflicted is considerable. Damage to the families, to the judicial system, and to Turkish politics.”
If this isn't the fault of "Yahya" or his sympathizers, someone's engaging in an admirable frame-up.
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