The agenda is set.
The speakers are set.
The universities are ready(?)
** There are already protests organizing at Berkeley and Tufts University is making attendees pass through a metal detector to get into the event.
I will be blogging the event here and at Incorrect University where I will be acting as Dean of Students. Hah.
So check out here and "Incorrect U" for updates.
I am planning on getting the latest updates from the different campuses.
Later in the week I will also be attending a couple of the sessions. At least that is the plan right now.
So keep checking for updates at Incorrect University during the week.
Again, here is a list of speakers: Robert Spencer, Tammy Bruce, David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, Michael Ledeen, Rick Santorum and many others!
It is going to be a power-packed week.
If you get the chance, ask Robert Spencer about the difference between true Jihad and Hirabah and how we hurt or help the war on terror by demonizing all Muslims.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, I'm not defending the religion theologically, but to win the war we must win the 'hearts and minds' of the peaceful Muslims and marginalize the terrorists who use Islam to justify their murder.
I agree, Amy, but this is about islamofascism-not Islam. If your point is that some care must be taken to distinguish between the two, well, of course! Hopefully they will do so.
ReplyDeleteIn the picture there's a woman standing to the left of the scene. She has white tennis shoes on. After the takeover of Afghanistan I heard about a fourteen year old girl who had been executed by the taliban for wearing white tennis shoes in Kabul. White is the color of purity and women aren't considered to be pure in Islam. I wonder if she is the same one.
ReplyDeleteTactically speaking, the phrase "Islamofacist" is inflammatory. You'll notice that Bush stopped using the term, and it's for a reason. It hurt the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in Iraq.
ReplyDeleteBut I liked it at first. Thought it was catchy and appropriate. It still probably is but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
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What is the name of the thing that we're fighting? How does one tell the difference between the thing that we're fighting and those that we have no fight with. We don't want to use the term Islam because it might cause anger and riots so how do we describe them? Do we call them jihadis? That is a religiously charged word (holy warrior) for Islam. Do we call them insurgents and lump PETA in with them? Insurgent is a rather vague label.
ReplyDeleteWe're faced by a group that is actively covering itself with a name and philosophy (Islamic jihad) in order to insulate itself from description so it cannot be identified. By denying us the ability to pinpoint a description they have handicapped us to our detriment.
"Trust me, I'm not defending the religion theologically, but to win the war we must win the 'hearts and minds' of the peaceful Muslims and marginalize the terrorists who use Islam to justify their murder"...
ReplyDeleteInteresting point and not a minor one either amy p...
I can't seem to locate them right now but bg not to long ago posted some good links on this very subject with the comments of those Muslims that are now taking an active and vocal role in opposing islamofacism...
Mike, I"m all for lumping PETA together with terrorists. And abortionists, too.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to be overly technically correct in the verbage. I'm sure sincere Muslims understand why we often refer to their bad elements as "Islamofacists". I'm a Catholic and I cannot defend the less than 1% of priests who are pedophiles, nor do I want to.
We're fighting religious nuts, apostates, fake Muslims, heretics, thugs, murderers and terrorists. I cringe at the term "Jihadists" because it serves to validate, if no one else, these terrorists in their own mind that they really are conducting Jihad. They are not.
I just refer to them as terrorists. But then, I refer to gay Episcopal bishops and others who defame the Christian faith from within and break the commandments in the name of love and tolerance as insurgents. That's what they are; spiritual insurgents.
"Tactically speaking, the phrase 'Islamofacist' is inflammatory."
ReplyDeleteSort of like "German fascist" and "Italian fascist"?
"By the way, the term “Islamo-fascism” was coined by Algerian Muslims and ex-Muslims to characterize the Islamic fanatics who slaughtered 150,000 of their Algerian Muslim brethren in the 1990s—and all in the name of Allah." Phyllis Chesler
ReplyDeleteI am sick to the core of people like Amy who are walking on eggshells out of fear of offending muslims with the TRUTH! Afterall, the very worst could happen, i.e. they might call us racists or islamophobes, haters and intolerant, even though doing so would be patently absurd and inaccurate. Muslims are not a race, they are of many races, as are most religions.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, criticizing an ideology, as islam most certainly is an ideology, should not be censored and intimidated with labeling all those who do racists, haters, intolerant, and islamophobic (whatever that is!). Are those who criticize capitalism, Christianity, Judaism, globalism, etc. held to the same standard. Of course NOT!
Would Amy, and those like her, also condemn calling those who comprised and supported Nazis in Germany fascists? An excellent case can be made equating the Third Reich to what muslims, led by the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, are in the process of trying to create in the modern world. Their anit-Semitic propaganda, for one thing, are identical, but for the substitution of Arabic for German. Mein Kampf continues, some 62 years after the fall of Nazi Germany to be a best seller, second only to the koran across the Arab world. Jews are referrede to monkeys & pigs, and crowds chant "Death to the Jews", "Death to Israel", "Death to America". The belief in truly pernicious nefarious Zionist conspiracies, like the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, are accepted as truth without question across the muslim world, and even in many quarters of the West. And their murderous behavior is a direct result of these hateful beliefs,but we are forbidden to point such things out, without being labeled and discredited as haters, intolerant, racist, etc.
Yet, when groups supporting the destruction of Israel and replacing it with a arab muslim state, no one dares hold them to the same standards as they hold those who criticize such muslim hate fests as being hate fests.
No other group has immigrated to America with such arrogant demands backed by threats of violence if they are not met, as has been the case with muslims. They want public schools, paid for by tax dollars, to segregate muslim students from the rest, and the muslims by gender, with breaks to accommodate their 5 daily prayer times, foot baths installed in schools and other public places, muslim mosques in airports and other public buildings--the list goes on and on. While the general population qivers in fear of being labeled racist if they utter a peep against any of it.