Posted on 05/29/2009 12:11:34 PM PDT by radu
The manager of a prominent Nashville hotel cancelled a contract with a conservative foundation to hold a conference this weekend on radical Islam, apparently after learning that the group would feature a keynote address by controversial Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders.
Muslim groups succeeded in preventing Wilders from screening “Fitna,” his 15-minute movie on radical Islam, in the House of Lords this February, on claims it was insulting to Muslims, and dogged him during a recent U.S. tour as well.
Thomas A. Negri, managing director of Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel and Office complex in Nashville, told Newsmax on Wednesday that he had taken the extraordinary step of cancelling the conference at the last minute “for the health, safety and well-being of our guests and employees.”
Negri refused to say why he felt the conference would adversely affect the “health, safety and well-being” of the hotel’s guests and employees, except to refer to the website of the New English Review, the group organizing the conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I hate to post and run but I do need to leave for a bit. I'll check back in asap.
PING
Boycott Loew’s Vanderbilt!
Firebombing threats?
He’s just afraid of being blown up, or his hotel anyway. It’s the only way muslims can use their free speech rights in America ....
I wonder if it will take forcing folks like the managing director to choose between fearing the Islamic Swine and the Infidels.
ML/NJ
land of the free no more
Muzzlims have a friend in the W.H. and they know it!
Remove the traitor....
I can’t wait for the next OHMYGODBAMA speech in Normandy(on the D DAY) and in CAIRO to the “muzzlim world”
They win again, and until WE finally admit we are engaged in a religous war with islam...they will keep winning.. until WE are no more.
Just another victory for the Silent Jihad!
No, he's an enabler:
One article, written by a retired U.S. army intelligence officer, Jerome Gordon, warns of the growing problems caused by the recent influence of several thousand Somali Muslim refugees who have come to work for a nearby Tysons Food plant to replace illegal Hispanic meat packers. Negri appeared at a 2003 pro-immigration event on the same dias with a well-known Somali warlord, Gordon told Newsmax.
Negri also serves on the board of advisors of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, TIRRC, an activist group that states its mission “is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice” and “defend their rights.”
The group boasts of having helped to defeat an “English only” amendment this January that would have required all Nashville government communications to be in English.
Earlier this month, the group won an award from the Migration Policy Institute, which is funded by grants form the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a left-wing group that also funds the ACLU, the Tides Foundation, the Tides Center, the Sierra Club, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other left-wing causes.
All they have to do is say "Muslim hate-mongerer and extremist Geert Wilders--WHO IS BANNED FROM ENTERING BRITAIN..."
that's all they need to put in their email and the hotel canceled.
I’d love for the ACLU and all these liberal idiots to live under Islam .... problem is, I’d be doing it too.
CAIR and their useful infidels need to be shut down..
>This just infuriates me! Caving to these jerks is the wrong way to go.<
It is with threats and violence that Islam is spread since its founding in the 7th century. It will be more successful today than it was in the middle ages when the West still consisted of countries willing to defend themselves against this evil.
“for the health, safety and well-being of our guests and employees.”
Which means:
“We are afraid.”
And definitely “home of the brave” no longer. The muslims have become the brave because much of America has become “the home of the spineless”.
Can’t you just see them hi-5-ing each other in private and laughing themselves silly at our cowardice?
Muzzlims have a friend in the W.H. and they know it!
Michelle gonna be pissed when she have to put on a burqa.
Muzz like these need insulting!
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