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CAIR and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month

March 29, 2007 by Christine | 910 Group | 08:00:59 | Comments [2] |

Talk about over-reaching.  This has been the month of miscalculations for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  And their plan started out so well…

On March 13, in spite of Republican objections, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) found CAIR a Congressional room of their own, that political accessory every lobbying group funded by UAE money Paul Findlay and Khalaf Al Habtoor, Chairman of the Al Habtoor Groupneeds to demonstrate they’re in the mainstream (though reportedly they’ll have a $25 million endowment of their own soon, so hold off on sending help with the rent).

CAIR’s presentation that morning was by Steven Krull of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, a program of the Center of Policy Attitudes which is - of course - sponsored by the George Soros funded Tides Foundation and the ultraliberal Joyce Foundation.

Such a busy day - later that afternoon, CAIR held a news conference to announce the filing of a discrimination lawsuit against U.S. Airways by the six “flying imams” who were removed from a flight in Minneapolis last November.  In the suit, they named as defendants not just US Airways and the Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission, but also the captain of the plane, the flight attendants, desk agents and passengers. 

Talk about being on a roll.  In the third part of this plan, as a kind of double-axel-triple-toe-loop-pirouette, the New York Times on March 14 ran Neil MacFarquhar’s puff piece on CAIR, an article so flattering, so untouched by actual facts, so graceful in its coordination with the litigious events of the prior day, that not one but two excellent analyses have since been written to set the record straight.  First, an excerpt from Steve Emerson’s article “One Muslim Advocacy Group’s Not-So-Secret Terrorist Ties - Unfit Print” at The New Republic Online:

While the Times did not see fit to provide its readers with any of CAIR’s “controversial” statements (Awad in 1994: “I am in support of the Hamas movement”), the paper did disingenuously quote one of CAIR’s most dangerous supporters. Former FBI agent Michael Rolince–who spent much of his time at the agency championing “partnership” between Islamist groups and law enforcement (and has, since his retirement, frequented the Islamist speaking and fund-raising circuit) told MacFarquhar, “Of all the groups, there is probably more suspicion about CAIR, but when you ask people for cold hard facts, you get blank stares.”

Not only is this a total falsehood, but it’s also a conflict of interest. Rolince was involved in a highly controversial program, eventually de-funded and cancelled by the FBI, that would have funneled millions of dollars to a constellation of radical Muslim groups, including CAIR (to, in the words of the Times, “institutionalize bridge building”). I have met with Rolince several times, and he simply refused to read the materials on CAIR that I, and others, provided. Moreover, Mike Rolf, a retired FBI agent, disagrees with Rolince’s casual acceptance of CAIR. Rolf states, “It is clear that CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country” and has said that, despite Rolince’s contention, “there are no blank stares from people working in counterterrorism in the U.S., and it is troubling that CAIR seems unable to directly and specifically condemn terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”

Read it all, send it on - one of the best compilations of facts out there on CAIR’s real strategic intent and tactics.

And Alex Alexiev at the Center for Security Policy sets the record straight - “The New York Times is shilling for the Islamists”:

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. He might as well have had in mind what used to pass as the “newspaper of record.” That the New York Times has long shown unabashed bias in favor of any and all leftist causes is hardly news, but that it is now doing the same with respect to radical Islam is novel and disturbing, if not altogether surprising. A case in point is the March 14, 2007, Neal MacFarquhar’s front page puff piece on the radical Islamist Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) entitled “Scrutiny Increases for a Group Advocating for Muslims in U.S.”

MacFarquhar’s egregious bias is openly on display in both what he says about CAIR, and even more so in what he does not say about the self-appointed “largest Muslim human rights organization in America.”

To start with the former, MacFarquhar informs us that a “small band” of conservative critics “have made a determined but unsuccessful effort to link it (CAIR) to Hamas and Hezbollah,” the US Government-designated terrorist organizations. Further, he cites unnamed government officials who compare the “standards used by critics to link CAIR to terrorism as akin to McCarthyism, essentially guilt by association,” while a retired FBI official is trotted out complaining that asking the critics “for cold hard facts, you get blank stares.”

The bottom line, according to MacFarquhar, is that “there were no charges linked to CAIR in any of the (terrorism related) cases involved” and, moreover, government officials “were not aware of any criminal investigation of the group.” And lest there is any doubt as to who is behind the organized smear of this noble civil rights organization, why, it’s the Jews, of course, in the guise of  ”pro-Israeli lobbyists” who, we are told, have created “a cottage industry of attacking the group and anyone dealing with it.”

Really? It just so happens that the “small band” of critics include such prominent “conservatives” as Senator Chuck Schumer who has stated in the congressional record that CAIR “has ties to terrorism” and “intimate links with Hamas.” And it just so happens that several CAIR officials have already been prosecuted by the US government and sent to jail or deported for terrorism-related activities while employed by CAIR. So much for “no charges linked to CAIR.”

“McCarthyism, guilt by association?” Rather, proven guilt for associating with terrorists, for which CAIR’s   “National Civil Rights Coordinator and Communications Specialist,” Randall Ismail Royer, for instance, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. “Cold hard facts,” “blank stares?”   Perhaps the former FBI official meant the blank stare of one Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR-Texas and the Hamas front Holy Land Foundation,  closed down by the US government as a terror financier, as he was carted off to jail. Mr. Elashi, already serving a six and a half year sentence, is soon to be tried again on the more serious charge of conspiracy to fund Palestinian terrorists.

Apropos, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), its close association with CAIR and terrorism funding is just one of those “cold hard facts” that Mr. MacFarquhar would rather not talk about; for if he did, he would have to acknowledge that CAIR not only openly collected donations for HLF on its website, but was itself a beneficiary of seed money from it while being incorporated. Nor are the New York Times reporter and his editor interested in providing some background on how CAIR came into being as a spin-off from the Hamas clearing house in the United States, the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) – an organization founded and financed by top Hamas operative Abu Musa Marzook in 1981. That would have required telling the reader that as IAP’s pro-Hamas activities became impossible to hide, its top officials, Nihad Awad, Omar Ahmad and Rafeeq Jaber, simply incorporated CAIR in 1994, moved over and became the top honchos of a brand-new Hamas front.

As for IAP’s   terrorist bona-fides, in December of 2004, a federal judge in Chicago found it and the Holy Land Foundation liable for $156 mln awarded to the estate of David Boim, an American teenager murdered by Hamas terrorists in Israel. No wonder IAP ceased to exist shortly thereafter.

Faced with examples of such grotesquely slanted reporting in a reputable newspaper, critics often tend to blame it on journalistic ignorance.   That excuse would not hold much water in this case. All of the facts discussed above are widely known and easily available to anyone with access to Google and an hour of time. Apparently, Mr. MacFarquhar and his New York Times editor deliberately chose to disregard them. This used to be called propaganda. Or was it disinformation?

CAIR’s triple-play almost worked: using Congress, the Courts and the Press, all in 24 hours, as a preamble to introducing legislation such as the End to Racial Profiling ActOmar Shahin, left, president of the North American Imams Federation, spoke to the news media with fellow Imam Marwan Sadeddin
And if it had been a year or two ago, it might have.  But we’ve gotten smarter and tougher, and a lot more efficient.  Less than a week after the press conference, the Congress, the press and U.S. citizens - including U.S. Muslims - graded CAIR’s performance: F, for fail, flunk, flounder, flop, fizzle.

According to news reports, the passengers who tipped off the flight crew were Arabic-speaking Muslims themselves.  And an  emerging leader of the anti-CAIR movement among reform liberal U.S. Muslims, Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy , started raising money for legal fees for passengers who could be named as defendants.  A high powered law firm offered to defend any passengers pro-bono.  In days, three initiatives were offered in Congress to protect passengers who report suspicious activity.

On March 28 - just two weeks after the announcement of the suit - Republicans in the House forced Democrats to include a provision in their new public transportation bill that protects passengers who report suspicious activity from getting sued by the suspects.

I love it when a plan works.


Time To Circle the Wagons

March 25, 2007 by no.apology | 910 Group | 08:17:34 | Comments [4] |

I want to bring to your attention the nature of two different battle-fronts in which America is currently embroiled: and some thoughts on how they are inter-related.

One is the threatening encroachment of an Islamic Caliphate, of Muslim intolerance for anything non-Muslim, and their stated goal of world-wide Shari’a Law, which involves converting Dar al-Harb to Dar al-Islam - essentially, rolling up the infidel world like a giant cigar, smoking it, then putting down a new carpet, called Islam, in which the world under Shari’a Law would know peace as Muhammad envisioned. Jews die, Infidels suck hind-tit.

The other battle-front concerns the current administration’s implementation of a pan-global plan to dissolve the borders and the sovereignty of the three countries of the United States, Canada and Mexico; that is, creating a North American Union purporting to achieve dominance on the world stage of commerce and trade.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was conceived and hatched by the Council on Foreign Relations, long considered to be a sort of shadow-government of the United States. The CFR dates back to 1921 and several successive presidential administrations have been covertly putting this proposal of a New World Order in place. Robert Pastor is currently the chief proponent and author of several books advocating a North American Union; a coalition of corporate-government agencies, conceptually similar to, and competing with the EU, winner-take-all. Whoever has the most marbles when he dies, wins. I guess.

Implementation is by stealth agenda, which is being advanced in an almost identical manner in which the European countries have seen their national sovereignties dissolve. There is no official Congressional participation. This is an end-run around the will of the American people. The global elitists want to run the world, and they don’t want the great unwashed mucking things up with things like “freedom”, and “liberty”, and “sovereignty”.

My introduction to all this insanity came as I began investigating the illegal immigration situation in America. I had no goal; I just wanted to discover the forces behind a seemingly mad immigration policy. When I discovered the SPP/Superhighway plot and it’s logical extension, the North American Union (NAU), I had part of my answer: the Bush administration hasn’t been enforcing current immigrant/border laws because it intends to dissolve the border post-haste. While investigating the desert around the Tucson/Phoenix area, I learned that it has been the residence of choice for Islamic terrorists since the 1980’s, and that the University of Arizona is pandering them. Each time I learned something new, I kept casting my net wider until the larger academic community came into focus.

There I learned from David Horowitz that the Leftists professors have hi-jacked the academic world, and that the NEA is full of secular humanists who are serving at the pleasure of Gramscian philanthropic foundations, such as Rockerfeller and Ford Foundations. It was in the foundations themselves that I saw the inter-connectedness of Socialist/Fascist policies. The Socialists need the Fascists to gather the money up - something which the Socialists themselves have never been able to do. The academic community is subservient to the vast wealth of the tax-free foundations. The universities have come to rely on their money cows, and are thus beholden to them. So much for academic freedom and diversity of ideas. And our public school system is equally a disaster-by-design. Dumb ‘em down. Keep the parents, even the teachers out of the equation. I personally know of fine teachers who despair at the injustices the boards of education hand down.

The Feds now have a tight grip on the educational processes. The Federal “No Child Left Behind” policy is part and parcel of a plot to keep our children bound by the cords of mediocrity. Keep them focused on meaningless testing, rather than educating our children. Thinkers are simply too dangerous, so they teach our children that they don’t need to think. Instead, they are taught what to think. It’s all part of the relative humanist’s plan to destroy family values. Destroy the family and people are so much easier to control. Phyllis Schlafly has written much about this, and about the collusion of the NEA with judicial branch of government. Activist judges. Activist feminist federal judges.

In a 1993 pamphlet to teachers, the NEA had this to say:

Allegiance to a nation is the biggest stumbling block to the creation of international government. National boundaries and the concept of sovereignty must be abolished. The quickest way to do this is to condition the young to another and broader alliance. Opinion favorable to international government will be developed in the social studies curriculum in the public schools.”

I learned that our children are being taught never to offend anyone’s feelings (unless they are white), that gay is good, feminists need to be in power because men are the root of evil, Christianity sucks, two Mommies, or two daddies are just as good as a mother and father; that the ACLU is their friend in all things(especially decadent, gay sorts of things), and anyone who disagrees with NEA policies will be given further special sensitivity training, since the diversity training they get at the beginning of the year didn’t take. Parents have no say in the education of their children, nor do the teachers. They are left with no choice in the matter. Home school while you can. Oh, and if you are white, you are wrong by default. End of story. I could do a whole rant on this, but I won’t. There be treachery afoot, Gramscian ideas corrupting the liberal view of the world, and ideological intolerance contempt of a moral point of view. So much out of balance, and tilting to the left.

Investigation into school policies also revealed the true intentions of CAIR, which led me to the process of propagation of radical Islam by the Wahhabi Islamists, and the grand scheme of the Islamic Caliphate; and how the Leftist organizations in academia, politics and the MSM are providing the PC cultural climate in which the white, educated, middle-class are the skunks and anyone with a brownish tint to their skin have been granted a de facto Federal most-favored status, because they are or were somehow victims of discrimination. The Muslims have been quick to cash in on that agenda.

As I began to write about what I was discovering, I learned of The 910 Group, shortly after its inception, on the Gates of Vienna. I got hooked up with them, and have continued my investigation into the nefarious doings of organizations such as CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, et al of that stripe.

But the problem of illegal immigration continues to plague me, and my investigation into that reveals a much more sinister plot. When I go after a story, I like to get at the root of it, but damn, the more I pulled at the root of illegal immigration, the worse it got. I have spent the past six weeks digging into this whole “Brave New World” thing. And what I am finding is simply staggering to behold. Even if you discount all the conspiracy theories going around, and I do not discount them - not all of them, anyway - the sheer brazenness, the treacherousness of the pan-global plan to integrate the countries of the United States, Canada and Mexico into a New World Order, with no Congressional oversight, or discussion even - well, let’s just say, it has my full attention.

Our government under George W. Bush has been re-organized with the SPP as a national priority of the highest order, involving DHS, the State Department, the Justice Department, as well as other coordinating agencies doing the bidding of the afore-mentioned. This is not conjecture. Go to Judicial Watch, read. I will post more sources as an update to this post. (see update below)

I see two possibilities in America:

One, we step up, defeat and dismantle the global plan to take over the world, starting with hauling anyone who is involved in the SPP agenda before a Special Congressional Investigation, and uncover the true intent of the current administration regarding this whole sorry affair. Then take the steps to decommission this SPP/NAU project, and indict and convict anyone and everyone found guilty of high crimes and treason. This can all be accomplished by the power of the spoken word.

If we somehow manage to do that, we will have finally taken off our PC gloves, and will be in a position as a nation, to deal with the Leftists, and the Islamists. The Republic government will have prevailed, the will of the people restored. I am hopeful we can achieve victory mainly because the Bush administration has characteristically jumped the gun, and has also grossly under-estimated the will of the American people. Once we get the lid off this thing, the stink will be unbearable.

Two, we allow our country and its citizens to be sacrificed on the altar of the Global Elite Order of Wisdom and Beneficence, aka GREED. Then it’s good-night nurse. Democracy will simple vanish into the night. Our children will inherit a nightmare of unimaginable proportions.

You may not agree with my findings nor share my conclusions. But one thing is certain: America needs you. And the world needs America. The real America, not the rotting politicians and corporations - not the Save The World contingent, either. The world needs to see real Americans stand up and guide our country back to sanity. They need to see that good can triumph over evil. Maybe we all need to see it.

We will only see it, if we fight for it.

Cross-posted at No Apology

Update: Here are a few sources on the SPP/NAU:

Council on Foreign Relations

Source Watch

World Net Daily

New American

UNC Dept. of Edu

Stop the SPP

Eagle Forum Website


The Effete Versus the Peons

March 20, 2007 by Baron Bodissey | 910 Group | 17:19:05 | Comments [2] |

Rolling Thunder checkpointWhen I was at the Eagles’ gathering last Saturday, I stood for a while with some of the Rolling Thunder guys while they screened people who wanted to enter the walkway that led to the Vietnam War Memorial.

The first time I saw one of the vets turn away a protester at the checkpoint, I asked him, “What are you doing, screening out the moonbats?”

“Well,” he replied, “let’s just say ‘the college-educated’.”

I thought about what he said when I went up to Moonbat Central a few minutes later to scope out the demonstrators. There were some veterans taking part in the demonstration up there, but not many. Besides the Aztlans and the Palestinians — who were out in force — the crowd consisted mainly of college students and aging boomers, hippies for whom the sixties never ended.

It was definitely an effete crowd, a bunch of people who had enough education to know that they were better than the vulgar flag-wavers down the hill, people who were sure that they had a truer knowledge of the world than all of the great unwashed with their repulsive patriotic display over by the Vietnam memorial.

By all rights I should have been with the protesters. I come from a solid middle-class background. I’m a college-educated man and an unabashed intellectual. I’ve read Chaucer and Schopenhauer. I listen to Bach. I even like to drink latte.

So why is it that I felt at home among those Rolling Thunder guys with their flags and their Harley-Davidsons? Why did those demonstrators seem to be aliens from Arcturus?

All I know is that the veterans are my people, and the ANSWER folks most assuredly are not.

The Party for Sedition and Treason

The Party for Socialism and LiberationThe major issue that keeps me out of the ranks of the moonbats is that I love my country. No matter what Nancy Pelosi and Hillary do when they’re running the place, I still love my country.

The same cannot be said of the demonstrators. They claim that they love America, but when you listen to what they have to say, there isn’t a single example of American history or culture of which they approve. They revere Cuba, Palestine, North Korea, and any other barbaric thug-state, so long as it’s an enemy of the United States.

And I don’t think electing Democrats is going to ease their dissatisfaction much — they are, after all, communists, and nothing short of the Revolution will cure their alienation from Amerikkka.

Take, for example, this paragraph from The Militant, whose members were among the demonstrators:

Here in Washington Democrats continue to posture in “opposition” to the war. Their latest charade is to attach amendments to a $100 billion supplemental bill on war spending that would also set Sept. 1, 2008—two months before the next U.S. presidential election—as the date for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq. As with previous proposals of this type, it faces substantial opposition from within both parties.

As far as these folks are concerned, the Democrats are taking their campaign donations and then acting like warmongering imperialist running dog lackeys! They’re no better than the Rethuglicans! You can bet they’ll be among the first up against the wall and blindfolded when the commissars finally take control.

Socialism is the Dream That Will Not Die. I picked up some literature from one of the groups and scanned it to present here for your edification.

The Party for Socialism and LiberationThe Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a newly-formed working-class party of leaders and activists from many different struggles, founded to promote revolutionary change. Capitalism — the system where all wealth and power lies with a handful of big banks and corporations — is the source of the problems facing humanity today: “endless war,” poverty, exploitation, layoffs, unemployment, racism, sexism, LGBT oppression. Socialism is what we’re fighting for: a society where all wealth belongs to those who produce it, for the benefit of all, based on solidarity instead of greed and competition. Do you want to learn more about socialism and Marxism? Do you want to join us in struggle? Contact the PSL, check out our website, subscribe to our magazine, and get involved… The time is now!

“Working-class”? How many of those people at the Lincoln memorial were really working class? Do working-class people consider LGBT oppression to be among their highest priorities? How many in the Socialist Workers’ Party are really workers?

One of the notable features of the Socialist conglomeration was how splintered it was into different and distinct sub-groups and sects. Christine of the 910 Group was there, and had this to report:

Along Portapotty Walk — marked by a row of small Cuban flags on the south end, and a Palestinian flag at the north — there were pairs of people selling socialist newspapers, but each one was not only a different paper, it was from a different party. The Revolutionary Communists… Socialist Workers’ Party… Freedom Road Workers’ Party… several others, each anxiously and earnestly affirming that it was different from the others.

But on being asked exactly what the difference was, one person said, “Well, Cuba. We’re different from other groups on Cuba. Somehow…” Passersby seemed to welcome having all that reading material there given the proximity of the portapotties — though reading may not have been the intended use.

I’m reminded of Protestant denominations, of schisms over Predestination and the true nature of the Paraclete. Trotsky or Che? Lenin or Mao? Can the Dictatorship of the Proletariat wait, or must it be ushered in immediately?

And Socialism is not without its lighter moments. Take this St. Valentine’s Day treatise on Revolutionary Love, from Freedom Road (Organización Socialista Camino de la Libertad):

I want to talk about love this month not because the corporate holiday is coming up but because it is a little summed-up experience that has a big impact on our movement. I draw here from both theory and practice. I am in no way an expert on dating or love, with my limited experience of it, but my mother always said that the people who struggle make the best teachers. She was talking about math as an example, not the struggle, but I think you can apply it to both. In either case, I think I might make a good teacher.Revolutionaries need love is the point here and we need to share love with other [sic] in our circle in good principled ways. Of course the conditions we live under — hegemony, oppression, patriarchy — affect all of this. Maybe you can learn from my mistakes, or Lenin’s if you prefer…

Revolutionaries need love! Have you hugged your Trotskyite today?

Watch out — those bomb belts really hurt your chest when you hug those righteous Hamas dudes.

Thanks to Christine from the 910 Group for all the moonbat research.


It’s A Battle Of Perceptions

March 9, 2007 by no.apology | 910 Group | 22:38:16 | Comments [9] |

This WordPress format is annoying the hell out of me. You can’t post anything with script, as far as I can tell. It has a scrubber that will just clean your messages for you. So forget about embedding a video. If someone has a hack around this, please let me know?

It might interest you to know how the radical wahhabi terrorist message is being propagated. I had been reading that it was the result of radical imams in the mosques, but while it is undoubtedly true that they are on the same page, it is the Internet Jihaddis who are providing the motivation to young Muslims. Muslims who may not even go to the local mosque.

You can read more on the Fourth Generation Warfare Doctrine being dissiminated as the “Global Islamic Resistance Call” by Al-Suri here.

I don’t own a television set, so I can’t know how widely this information has been viewed, which was aired (I guess) on CBS . In any case, it seems prudent to post this video.

People on the video of interest to our fight against jihadis are: A. Aaron Weissburd, a programmer who quit his job to take on the“Internet Jihadis”. Rita Katz of SITE Institute, working with US officials, has also joined the fight from some undisclosed location in the US. General Custer is heading up a military effort to intercept sites such as jihad.com.

All this information is on the video. Just giving you a preview. If you would like to contact A. Aaron Weisburd, here’s his homepage at Internet Haganah: “Confronting the Global Jihad Online”. He apparently has been very successful at tripping them up. Anyone with more information on any of the above, please post in a comment.

We need to find a way to cross swords with these jihadis. If the 910 Group is going to become viable, we need to act now. While we are figuring out how to tie our shoes, these guys are winning the race. So far. As General Custer, and many others have said: It’s a battle of perceptions. The internet is where it’s being waged; they put together very convincing sound and video bytes, and quickly disseminate it around the world, instantaneously.

Confronting the Global Jihad Online:

On Weisburd’s page is the “Top ten” list of Salafyist/Jihadist forums.

The Internet Haganah is a project of: SoFIR: an international non-governmental ad hoc intelligence network focused on combating the global jihad.

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And just to keep our very own Ammadabajaba of Iran where we can see him:messianism.jpg

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence’ Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) posted this.

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A lot of skill and intuition, perception of their weakness is needed. The first lesson I was given when I learned to type (on an old Underwood manual-weighed a ton) went like this:

“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”. That was then, now we have, thank God, women to fight along side of us.

Come on, guys. Let’s get these cowboy jihadis.


Daniel Pipes Heads For Denmark

March 4, 2007 by Baron Bodissey | 910 Group | 04:23:03 | Comments [2] |

Daniel Pipes will be in Copenhagen a week from today to receive a prize for his efforts to secure freedom of speech. I can’t find any news about this in English, not even at Dr. Pipes’ website, but Kepiblanc has kindly translated the announcement of the event posted at Trykkefrihedsselskabet’s official website:

Daniel PipesThe “Press Freedom Award 2007” will go to American historian Daniel Pipes in acknowledgement of his fight for freedom of speech, his opposition to Islamism, his work for academic freedom in American universities, and his support for Muslim dissidents who speak out against Mecca.

It is Dr. Pipes’ first visit to Denmark.

The event will take place Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 2:30pm, in the Grand Hall of the Labor Museum, Roemersgade 22, Copenhagen.

Daniel Pipes (www.danielpipes.org) is one of the best-known critics of Islamism. He is the director of the think tank “The Middle East Forum” in Philadelphia and of “Campus Watch”, www.campus-watch.org

Dr. Pipes is a regular commentator at the The New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post. His articles frequently appear in the world’s most renowned magazines, and he is a frequent guest on CNN and Fox News. He is the author of fourteen books about Islam and the Middle East, translated into eighteen different languages. Among the most important are The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah and the West — a thorough evaluation of “The Satanic Verses” affair — and the book Militant Islam reaches America.

This is the second time Trykkefrihedsselskabet [Society for Freedom of the Press - translator] has granted the “Press Freedom Award”. Last year it was granted to the Pakistani-Norwegian comedian Shabana Rehman and the British human rights advocate Roy Brown.

For further information : Helle Merete Brix — phone 0045 22 92 70 46 or Lars Hedegaard — phone 0045 36 46 15 48.