Posted on 09/13/2012 10:53:53 AM PDT by OddLane
If there was a single, overarching theme to the first Stop the Islamization of Nations Congress, it was just that. Freedom. The freedom exercised by Rifqa Bary-the courageous young woman who converted to Christianity despite the wishes of her Muslim parents, and whose portrait you see emblazoned upon the poster above-as well as the freedom to engage in critical inquiry regarding any and all subjects-including Islam-are one and the same.
For fundamentally, they both come down to the exercise of free will. Individual choice is something that is not highly valued in authentic Islamic culture, as the plight of the recently freed Iranian Christian pastor Yousef Nardakani, and the fate which befell Arab journalists who republished the famous Jyllands Posten Mohammed cartoons, demonstrate.
I traveled to the UN Millennium Plaza Hotel on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 massacres in order to listen to a roster of speakers who would illuminate just how precarious the freedom we enjoy is, why it is imperiled-not only in the United States, but across the globe-by whom, and how we can resist the encroachment of those who would circumscribe, and ultimately, eliminate it.
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OUTSTANDING! Well-presented and very timely in light of current events. Thanks for your work.
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Ms. Weiss will be speaking on the threat posed to free speech from UN Resolution 16/18, which the Obama Administration supports. At a time when our embassies are attacked supposedly because of a movie and the initial response from our State Department is to apologize, the threat posed to our liberty posed by radical Islamists and their enablers is all too real.
Deborah Weiss, Esq. currently works for Vigilancenow.org. She formerly worked for the Committee on House Oversight in Congress; the Forbes for President Campaign in 1995-96; and served as an attorney in New York under the Giuliani administration. In addition to contributing to Human Events, her articles have also been published in FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, American Security Council Foundation, the Weekly Standard, Washington Times, and National Review Online. She is co-author of “Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamist Terrorist Network" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). She is a survivor of the World Trade Center attacks in New York City.
Location : Park South Hotel 124 East 28th Street Date : September 13, 2012 Time : 7:30PM - 9:00PM
Nice writeup, OL. Please post any other coverage that you see. Good to see everyone.
Two events tonight in NYC both with the same theme: freedom of speech in the face of the Islamic threat! That is a first, and so apropos in light of the headlines. I was exhausted and could not make either one, but I hope to hear soon about the Met Club event and the NYYRC.
Send donation to Pamela if you can. She described the security demands of the hotel as costing as much as a small house. Let’s help her out. She is truly magnificent.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/sion-september-11-2012-freedom-congress-un-plaza/
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