Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West
Who: Dr. Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum
Dr. Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute
Dr. Wafa Sultan, outspoken critic of Islam and author of the
forthcoming
book "The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a
Monster"
What: A panel discussion on the threat of Islamic totalitarianism and how
to deal with it
Where: UCLA Campus: Moore 100, Los Angeles, CA
When: Thursday, April 12, 2007, at 7:00 PM
Admission is FREE.
Description: From the Iranian hostage crisis to September 11 to the London
subway attacks to the Iraqi insurgency--it is clear the West faces a grave
threat from a committed enemy. Conventional wisdom holds that the enemy is a
rogue group of fanatics, who have hijacked a great religion in order to justify
their crimes. It tells us there is no way to permanently eliminate these
violent groups, that we have entered an "age of terror" and that we must give
up the desire for a decisive victory.
But is the conventional wisdom right?
A distinguished panel of Middle East experts will provide new and illuminating
answers to the most important questions of our time: Is the West ready to
concede victory so easily? Are the terrorists a fringe group of fanatics, or
are they part of a much wider ideological movement? What threat do they pose to
the West? What can the West do to ensure victory? Is peace possible?
While the experts will answer these complex questions from diverse points of
view, they all agree on one thing: Islamic totalitarianism is a real threat,
and the right response necessitates engaging in a principled, ideological
battle to defend the West from the jihad declared against it.
Speakers' Biographies:
Dr. Yaron Brook is executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and a
recognized Middle-East expert who has written and lectured on a variety of
Middle-East issues. Dr. Brook has served in the Israeli Army and has discussed
the Israeli-Arab conflict and the war on Islamic totalitarianism on hundreds of
radio and TV programs, including FOX News (The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with
Neil Cavuto, At Large with Geraldo Rivera), CNN's Talkback Live, CNBC's Closing
Bell and On the Money, and a C-SPAN panel of experts on terrorism.
Dr. Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum. He taught history at
the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, and lectured on policy and
strategy at the Naval War College. He currently teaches at Pepperdine
University. Dr. Pipes is the author of twelve books and numerous articles. He
is a columnist for the New York Sun and he appears weekly in Israel's Jerusalem
Post, Italy's L'Opinione, Spain's La Razón, and monthly in the Australian and
Canada's Globe and Mail. His Web site, DanielPipes.org, is among the most
accessed Internet sources of specialized information on the Middle East and
Islam. Mr. Pipes has appeared on ABC World News, CBS Reports, Crossfire, Good
Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, O'Reilly Factor, The
Today Show, the BBC and Al Jazeera.
Dr. Wafa Sultan is a secular Syrian-American writer and thinker, Dr. Sultan is
known for her participation in Middle East political debates, widely circulated
Arabic essays and television appearances on Al Jazeera, CNN and Fox News. Dr.
Sultan was shocked into secularism by the atrocities committed against innocent
Syrian people by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1979, including the machine-gun
assassination of her professor in front of her eyes at the University of
Aleppo, where she was a medical student. On February 21, 2006, she appeared on
Al Jazeera, where she scolded Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently and
for not acknowledging the accomplishments of non-Muslim societies, including
their greater freedom and capacity for producing wealth and technology. She
named the Islamic threat to the West as "a battle between modernity and
barbarism which Islam will lose." A video of her appearance, widely circulated
on Web logs and through e-mail, has been viewed an estimated
12 million times. Her outspokenness has brought her both threats and praise.
Dr. Sultan is currently working on a book to be called "The Escaped Prisoner:
When God Is a Monster."
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