Over one-third of the attempted and successful Jihad attacks on American soil since 9/11 took place in 2009. This sharp uptick comes at a time when conservative organizations and media figures are talking about jihad and its root causes in Islamic texts and teachings less frequently and less honestly than at any time since 9/11. At the same time, there is a global initiative at the UN and elsewhere to muzzle critics of Islam, criminalizing even honest discussion of the Islamic doctrines that terrorists use to justify jihad violence and Islamic supremacism.
Now I am happy to announce that Pamela Geller and I have created an organization to stand up against this silence that threatens our existence and renders us defenseless as our freedoms and way of life are eroded away. We are launching the Freedom Defense Initiative, a new activist group, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, with a conference entitled Jihad: The Political Third Rail – What They Are Not Telling You.
This conference will be held at the Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, the site of CPAC, on February 19 from 10AM to Noon. It is at the site of CPAC, but is an independent event, not a CPAC event. Last year when Pamela Geller brought Geert Wilders to CPAC, over 700 good Americans were introduced to this century’s Winston Churchill. This year the objective is to educate Americans, activists, and freedom lovers about U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations’ complete intellectual dominance at high levels of the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, the Justice Department, et al, and the ongoing war against free speech about Islamic jihad.
Speakers include:
Steve Coughlin: Former Pentagon Islamic law specialist, making his first public appearance since he was fired after pressure from Islamic infiltrators. Has startling information about Islamic infiltration in our government.
Wafa Sultan: Stood up for human rights against Sharia on Al-Jazeera in a debate with an Islamic cleric on a famous viral video. Author of the blistering indictment of Islam’s denial of rights to women and non-Muslims, A God Who Hates.
Simon Deng: Former slave in Sudan, leading human rights activist against jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: Facing “hate speech” charges in Austria for telling the truth about Islam and the Islamization of Europe.
Anders Gravers: Danish leader of Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE).
Lt. Colonel Allen West: War hero, Congressional candidate (FL 22nd district), future national leader who offers a real alternative to Obama’s socialism at home and appeasement abroad.
Pamela Geller: Editor and publisher, AtlasShrugs.com, Newsmax columnist, author (with Robert Spencer) of the forthcoming book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America (Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster) and Executive Director, Freedom Defense Initiative.
Robert Spencer: Director, Jihad Watch, Human Events and Front Page Magazine columnist, New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), Stealth Jihad, and eight other books. Associate Director, Freedom Defense Initiative.
Sign up to attend this all-important event. You must register at FDInitiative@aol.com. Write to that address also to become a member of and receive more information about the FDI.
Please also help us fund this all-important event, which is supplying truth, the objective reality, that you will not hear elsewhere. Go here to contribute, and thank you. This enforced silence is a manifestation of Sharia creep (do not defame Islam, do not insult Islam) in the West. We, on the other hand, are presenting the truth on which hangs the very future of our nation.
The Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI):
The Freedom Defense Initiative is a new organization launched by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Our objective is to go on the offensive when legal, academic, legislative, cultural, sociological, and political actions are taken to dismantle our basic freedoms and values.
FDI acts against the treason being committed by national, state, and local government officials, the mainstream media, and others in their capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, the ever-encroaching and unconstitutional power of the federal government, and the rapidly moving attempts to impose socialism and Marxism upon the American people.
It acts against these evils by:
“¢ Organizing grass root small groups at the local level to fight specific Islamic supremacist initiatives in American cities – e.g., the November 2009 Rally for Rifqa Bary in Columbus, Ohio, which called attention to the dangers apostates from Islam live under, and to the threats to religious freedom that are advancing in the U.S. right now;
“¢ Sponsoring anti-jihad bus and billboard campaigns to counter CAIR’s pro-Islamic bus and billboard campaigns;
“¢ Organizing counter protests to anti-Israel, anti-Zionism demonstrations;
“¢ Touring the country on Freedom of Speech in the Age of Jihad tours – bringing the best, clearest voices to national attention
“¢ Building strategic alliances with activist groups in Europe and Israel to engage in open and stealthy counter jihad measures;
“¢ Raise awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism not just through articles and conferences, but through activist initiatives – e.g., the effort to supply a memorial for honor killing victim Aqsa Parvez, whose body lay in an unmarked grave. This initiative resulted in memorials being constructed for Aqsa in Canada and Israel, and heightened awareness in the West of the horror of Islamic honor killing;
“¢ Supporting Geert Wilders and others who are fighting attacks on free speech by the Leftist/Islamic alliance;
“¢ Promoting candidates who understand state’s rights and the necessity to limit the power of the federal government [as legal status permits];
“¢ Promoting candidates who fight against the march of Islamic supremacists [as legal status permits];
“¢ Calling attention to specific acts of capitulation and collaboration to Islamic supremacism by government and law enforcement officials, and pressing for the reprimand and removal of those officials;
“¢ Targeting infiltrators of our federal agencies and seeking their removal;
“¢ Articulating and defending a firm Constitutional basis for genuine limitations on the federal government and the rights of the individual states;
“¢ Defending the value of private ownership and firmly opposing the nationalization of U.S. industries
“¢ Defending the rights of the private citizen and opposing everything that increases his status of serfdom to the state.
To achieve these ends the Freedom Defense Initiative will:
“¢ Act through the existing Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch websites (which had a combined 22 million page views in the last twelve months) to raise awareness of pertinent issues, using our base (Jihad Watch 30,000 page views per day, Atlas 25,000 page views per day, combined page views two million per month) to build a movement;
“¢ Create state organizations that address these issues on a local level (Atlas and Jihad Watch readers will likely head up sub-organizations in each state identifying local issues, targeting specific situations, and developing action plans to fight on the local level);
“¢ Issue Action Alerts through the not inconsiderable reach of Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs, calling people to take a specific action — whether it be to contact their representatives, write against a nominee (i.e., Harold Koh), attend a hearing, call a rally, etc.
“¢ Conduct live coverage of key political, social, and historic events (i.e., the Republican National Convention, and important local, state, and national elections)
“¢ Hold seminars featuring as speakers key defenders of freedom;
“¢ Host conferences that educate Americans about Leftist indoctrination and Islam’s quest for domination;
“¢ Host rallies to demonstrate the awareness and power of the American citizen;
“¢ Publish books that support our objectives;
“¢ Act through all possible means to create a large-scale resistance to the forces that are moving rapidly to destroy American Constitutionalism and capitalism.
“¢ Turn readers into effective activists who build their own networks in their communities. They either run or put up candidates to run in school boards, precincts, to get back that what was squandered. All politics is local — and that’s where we must start.