America's Truth Forum
in association with Basics Project
present
Exposing the Threat of Islamist Terrorism
America's Original Symposium Series on the Threat of Islamist Terrorism
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Saturday February 2, 2008
Ranch of the Lonesome Dove in Southlake, Texas
9am Start (7:45am arrival time to satisfy security check-in)
(Texas Bar-B-Que lunch included)
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VIP Dinner & Cocktail Pre-Symposium Reception
Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX
Friday, February 1, 2008
7pm Start (6pm arrival time to satisfy security check-in)
Symposium Tickets: $149.00 per person
VIP Dinner Reception Tickets: $119.00 per person
Ticket purchase and reservation deadline: January 4, 2008
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Confirmed Speakers:
Frank Gaffney
Founder and President Center for Security Policy
Subject: The Infiltration of Middle Eastern Influence into Washington DC Institutions. Mr. Gaffney will examine the increasing Middle Eastern within some of our countries most important institutions including our government.
Caroline Glick
Deputy Managing Editor, Jerusalem Post & Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy
Subject: Assessing the Iranian Threat to Global Security
David Harris
President of Democracy House &
Former Chief of Strategic Planning of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Subject: Threat of terrorist infiltration.
Roger Hedgecock
From his days as a San Diego elected official to his 14 years as host of "The Roger Hedgecock Show," Mr. Hedgecock has reached out to influence millions of Americans with his message of citizen empowerment. Mr. Hedgecock has guest hosted the number one ranked Rush Limbaugh radio program. He can be heard on his own nationally syndicated radio program on his flagship station AM600 KOGO, in San Diego, CA .
Subject: Emcee
Dr. Harvey Kushner
Chairman of Criminal Justice Dept. of Long Island University, best-selling author, advisor to the FBI and FAA
Subject: Radical Islam's Infiltration of America. The original introduction to his book Holy War in 2004 included this warning: “In my thirty years in counterterrorism, I have never been more worried about my country.” What’s changed? Make it thirty-eight. Kushner will show how the United States continues to be infiltration by terrorist meaning to pull triggers, plant bombs, and blast holes in the New York City skyline.
Laura Mansfield
Middle Eastern linguistic expert and investigative reporter specializing in jihadi activity both domestic and foreign
Subject: To Be Announced
Atty. David Schippers
Former Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee, author, counter-terrorism expert
Subject: Domestic Terrorism and Associated Threat. Mr. Schippers will discuss past terrorist attacks no our nation and the probabilities of additional attacks on our homeland.
Robert Spencer
Director of Jihad Watch, best-selling author and expert on radical Islam
Subject: Sharia Law and The West. Mr. Spencer will discuss the nature of the Sharia imperative and the elements of Western civilization that it challenges. His talk will examine why the United States - and the West - ignore this at our own peril.
Dr. Wafa Sultan
Syrian-American Psychologist and internationally known critic of militant Islam
Subject: The Necessity of Educating the American Public About Islam. Dr. Sultan will explain why tough questions should be posed to Muslims about Islamic teachings as well as defining the concept of Al Taqqiya, the need to monitor the Saudi money trail into American Universities, Mosques and Maddrassas and the need to effectively infiltrate Muslim communities to monitor and investigate radicalization.
Dr. Bruce Tefft
Founding member of CIA’s Counterterrorism Task Force
Subject: The Islamist Ideological Conflict - Loyalty to Country vs. Loyalty to Religion. Dr. Tefft will examine the issues surrounding the complex dilemma facing Islamist ideology with regard to the religions ability to assimilate into their host nation societies. He will examine the tenets of the Koran regarding national assimilation, the ideology surrounding jihad today and throughout history and Islamophobia.
Dr. Paul Williams
Former FBI consultant, best-selling author and investigative journalist
Subject: The American Hiroshima & Domestic Jihadi Training Camps. Dr. Williams will discuss the vulnerability of the United States to "The American Hiroshima," Osama bin Laden's quest to deploy and detonate nuclear weapons within US borders. He will also discuss his recent examination of jihadi training facilities located within the United States.
Now that's starting the New Year off RIGHT!
You said it, Darcy!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Isabella!
Just one thing. Spencer is an expert on Islam, not radical Islam, whatever that is.
Also, each bio must include whether the participant is fluent in Arabic, medieval Arabic in particular.
"not radical Islam, whatever that is." --posted above
LOL. Really.
Oh yes, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too, Miss Darcy! And same to my beloved Alarmed Pig Farmer. (I've already got my Christmas ham! Yum!)
Militant Islam, Radical Islam = pure Islam.
Lot of Islamaphobes in one place, wonder how much security will cost.....importing Muslims is expensive.
Here is copy of a letter I sent to the America Truth Forum:
In an attempt to do a service to the country by gathering all these learned critics of Islamic jihad, you do a great disservice by using the title "Exposing the Threat of Islamic Terrorism".
Why do you feel it necessary to use the term "terrorism" when everyone on that panel (excpet Hedgecock and Gaffney) knows that the correct term that identifies the threat is global jihad?
There is great importance in choosing the correct word that identifies the threat the west faces. Using terms such as "terrorism" conjures visions of turbaned gunslingers, big explosions, and random acts of violence (such as the sudden jihad syndrome malady). Using the word "terrorism" also suggests that the public's attention need only be focused on a separate, distinct and clearly identifiable segment of the ummah, when, in fact, the threat comes from a much wider profile. Will CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood be mentioned at your symposium? Of course they will. Are they violent terrorists? No. Do they threaten our security as much as Al Qeada, the Taliban, Hamas and Fatah or Jamaat ul-Fuqra ? Of course they do. You might as well invite Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton to speak since they too have a great many things to observe about "terrorists".
In your attempt to spread valuable information you are confusing the public with the misnomer. The word to describe the enemy correctly is global jihadists. It is not an offensive description. It is referenced many times throughout the Koran. It is used by muslims to describe themselves ("Islamic Jihad" in Gaza and Lebanon). It is major part of all five schools of Islamic jurispriudence.
If a distinquished group of scholars and critics of jihad such those listed in the symposium brochure misidentify the enemy as limited to only "terrorists" and therefore are unable to name to threat correctly, there is no reason to expect that common sense solutions to the problem will be offered.
Sincerely,
Christmas is a magical time. More of a surrounding spirit than a holiday, especially when there's deep snow on the ground, and ice on the lakes to reflect the brilliant stars in the clear night sky.
Merry Christmas to both of you ladies.
Can I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas (shove your "Happy Holidays" where the sun don't shine!) and a Happy and prosperous New Year. Keep up the good fight in 2008.
Yours in friendship,where ever you are-
Rookie.
P.S.
Thanks for all I have learned from you guys.
USorThem, spot on and I agree with you whole heartedly.
In fact, I would go as far as to say that distingusing followers of islam into moderates, fundamentalists, jihadis, terrorists etc is misleading. There is only one islam and all its followers believe in the same doctrine.
The correct (and brave) title of this symposium ought to have been:
Exposing the Threat of Islam.
Merry Christmas to all the JW crew.
BTW, my Kaspersky security detected a keylogger on the website for the ranch, be careful.
http://www.2-spyware.com/keyloggers-removal
"The word to describe the enemy correctly is global jihadists. It is not an offensive description. It is referenced many times throughout the Koran. It is used by muslims to describe themselves ("Islamic Jihad" in Gaza and Lebanon). It is major part of all five schools of Islamic jurispriudence." --posted by UsorThem
I like this. "Global Jihadists" it is for me from now on.
The correct (and brave) title of this symposium ought to have been:
Exposing the Threat of Islam.
Posted by: Hermit at December 22, 2007 12:10 PM
Also very good, and spot on.
"The word to describe the enemy correctly is global jihadists. It is not an offensive description. It is referenced many times throughout the Koran. It is used by muslims to describe themselves ("Islamic Jihad" in Gaza and Lebanon). It is major part of all five schools of Islamic jurispriudence." --posted by UsorThem
I like this. "Global Jihadists" it is for me from now on.
The correct (and brave) title of this symposium ought to have been:
Exposing the Threat of Islam.
Posted by: Hermit at December 22, 2007 12:10 PM
Also very good, and spot on.
Merry Christmas to both of you ladies.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at December 22, 2007 11:18 AM
And to you, APF!
Merry Christmas to both of you ladies.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at December 22, 2007 11:18 AM
And to you, APF!
Merry Christmas to both of you ladies.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at December 22, 2007 11:18 AM
And to you, APF!
Sorry, I don't know why all of these repeats of my posts.
USorThem,
I wholeheartedly agree with the point you made in your letter. I, too, think that "Global Jihad" is an accurate and fully-inclusive tag for the threat we face today from totalitarian, supremacist Islam.