Taqiyya alert: As Tunisia’s Islamists chalk up the first of likely many electoral victories in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ in Tunisia’s elections, they are seeking to reassure the nervous, secular (i.e. less than pious) Muslims that they’re not going to set up a religious dictatorship. At least not right away. Why would anyone need to […]
Archives for October 2011
Exec for Nashville’s Hutton Hotel confirms that it canceled anti-jihad conference over threats of violence from Islamic supremacists
Confirming yet again that terrorism works, and that all too many Americans no longer have the courage of their forefathers to defend liberty at whatever cost. Islamic supremacists threatened the hotel over our conference, and the hotel immediately gave in to their violent intimidation. “Conference on Islam canceled as hotel fears head-bashing: Corporate exec reacted […]
Contact the Hutton Hotel, urge them to reconsider their capitulation to Islamic supremacist threats and cancellation of freedom conference
This is a free speech issue. The Hutton Hotel has no right to cancel our event or any event because it doesn’t like the point of view presented. In canceling the conference because it received threats, the Hutton Hotel is kowtowing to violence and showing that terrorism works, instead of doing what it should do: […]
Geller: Reading the real Qur’an
In “Reading the Real Qur’an” in the American Thinker this morning, Pamela Geller reads into the “real translation” that Islamic apologist Mike Ghouse gave her on the Sean Hannity Show last Friday night: Last Friday I was on the Sean Hannity Show, debating Muslim activist Michael Ghouse on the future of Libya. Debating Michael Ghouse […]
AFDI/SIOA Condemns Nashville Hutton Hotel’s Cancellation of Freedom Conference, Capitulation to Islamic Supremacism
From Yahoo News: NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization has condemned the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee for capitulating to Islamic supremacist threats and intimidation and canceling the Preserving Freedom Conference scheduled for November 11. Steve Eckley, Senior Vice-President of Hutton Hotel, told conference organizers Monday […]
Human Rights Watch warns of cover-up of Egyptian massacre of Christians
The cover-up of the October 9 massacre is well underway. It was reported on October 13 that the Egyptian military was taking over the investigation of its own massacre of Coptic protesters, which was aided by incitement from state television, from the civilian prosecutor. Below are additional developments, as the “Arab Spring” progresses into an […]
Spencer: Gaddafi’s Death Gives Rise to a Sharia State
I tried to tell you — in Human Events this morning: Muammar Gaddafi is dead, and Barack Obama’s partisans are hailing the Brave New Libya as a triumph for his administration. Speaking about the Libyan revolution in March, Obama hailed “the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and the ability of the Libyan people to […]
France: Appeals court upholds acquittal of man who burned Qur’an
I do not support the burning of books. Still, there is absolutely no doubt that if Ernesto Rojas Abbate had burned a Bible, he never would have been arrested or prosecuted. It is a good thing that he was acquitted, but he never should have been arrested or tried in the first place. The specter […]
Nashville’s Hutton Hotel says it cancelled conference because of Geller and Spencer
Picking up Leftist smears from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, the Hutton Hotel has canceled the Preserving Freedom Conference because Pamela Geller and I were speaking there. More on this story, and a Free Speech Death Watch Alert: “Nashville hotel cancels conference over speakers deemed anti-Muslim ‘extremists,’” from the Associated Press, […]
Pakistan: Judge who issued death sentence for assassin of governor who criticized blasphemy law forced to flee the country with his family
Saudi Arabia is a curious destination, given its own approach to Sharia, blasphemy, and Christians, such as Asia Bibi, whom the assassinated Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, sought to defend against false charges brought under Pakistan’s inherently abusive blasphemy law. But the fact remains that the judge, who pronounced the sentence for murder as provided by […]