FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD

NYC: All day conference today.  The most courageous truth tellers and fighters for free speech descend on the Big Apple to attend an historical conference: FREE SPEECH IN AN AGE OF JIHAD hosted by the  Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and The New Criterion. Luminaries include Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Ezra Levant, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Steven Emerson, Frank Gaffney, Claudia Rosett, Cliff May as well as other leading lights in the fight for free speech and against libel tourism. And I will be there reporting live.

These are the real rock stars of my generation.

Free Speech in an Age of Jihad
Libel Tourism, “Hate Speech,” and Political Freedom

Over the last several years, proponents of Islamic jihad have increasingly turned to thecourts and government agencies in their effort to suppress criticism of radical Islam.The result has been a proliferation of libel suits and so-called “hate speech” actionsthat aim to curtail free speech and further the cause of radical Islam. Although generally initiated in countries less hospitable to free expression than the United States, these actions have had a profound “spill over” effect on American authors, journalists, and publishers. The aim of this conference is to provide an anatomy of these efforts to suppress free speech, to examine the way such actions aid and abet the spread of radical Islam, and to consider some possible responses, legal as well as journalistic, to the threats they pose.

Opening Remarks: Libel Tourism & Political Correctness: 
Roger Kimball, Editor, The New Criterion 
9:00 am – 9:20 am

Panel I: The Face of Libel Tourism
9:25 am – 10:55 am

Moderator: Roger Kimball, Editor, The New Criterion
Presenter: Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow, The Ethics and Public Policy Center

Discussants:
Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director, American Center for Democracy
Brooke Goldstein, Director of the Legal Project, The Middle East Forum
Ezra Levant, Founder, EzraLevant.com

 

Panel II: Suppressing Discussion of Islam 
11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Moderator: Clifford D. May, President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Presenter: Robert Spencer, Director, Jihad Watch

Discussants: 
Steven Emerson, Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President, The Center for Security Policy
Claudia Rosett, Journalist in Residence, Foundation for Defense of
Democracies
Ibn Warraq, Author most recently of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward
Said’s Orientalism

Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Mark Steyn, author most recently of America Alone, on
“The Dimming of Liberty: Legal Jihad and the Criminalization of Resistance.”
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Panel III: What Is to Be Done? Legislative Opportunities and Pitfalls
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Moderator: Jay Nordlinger, Senior Editor, National Review
Presenter: Andrew C. McCarthy, Director, Center for Law & Counterterrorism,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Discussants:
Hon. Robert H. Bork, The Hudson Institute
Daniel Kornstein, Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP
John J. Walsh, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

Concluding Remarks: Roger Kimball, Editor, The New Criterion 
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm

 

 

Comments

[allat]

Seriously, I thank you all, for working for the benefit of Humanity and Evolution (Siempre adelante, nunca paso atras).

I would like to ask whether there will be a transcription of this? Will be be a recording available to us?

[deadbambi]

What an incredible panel of speakers - I wish I could've been there! I wish they'd go on tour like the Stones. That group should visit every college campus in America (and Canada). I'd gladly sell t-shirts!