DC Legal Panel on Rifqa Bary

A few weeks back I was invited to speak at a two-day legal conference down in Washington, DC,  on "Freedom of speech" and "Freedom of religion". The subject matter, the context was of my choosing, as were the panelists I could select to join me if that was my preference.
It was.
Please watch the video clip of my panel on the Rifqa Bary's apostasy case. I asked Dr. Andrew Bostom and Robert Spencer to join me. It is excellent. It runs under 40 minutes.

UPDATE: Huge thanks to UK reader Davod for producing an MP3 audio file for us: Download PanelonRifqaBary-DCConfOct27-28'09-Geller,Spencer,Bostom.mp3 (4508.0K)

Comments

[JCL154]

Video won't load. Maybe everyone at the Whitehouse is downloading a copy?

[Sarastro]

Much loved, much admired, terrific, beautiful Pamela -- What a video!!! No one can speak so movingly and convincingly as you -- no tele- prompters, it's all in your head and your heart. You are the right person in the right place at the right time doing God's work. You are like Joan of Arc. You have got to be placed in a responsible position in our government, in whatever capacity, to radiate your concepts where they can change the destructive mind bent that has taken over our country. Cudos to Andrew and Robert, but you are the driving force of righteousness and justice and decency and just plain common sense behind the thrust opposing the enemies of our heritage. We, your loyal fans, will back you and support you, your followers will grow into a multitude and we will flood out the usurpers in our midst. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Let our rallying cry be "Reconquista".

[Jonah]

I'm behind. What is truth about her eye?

[Sarastro]

Robert Spencer's remark that there is no one in the universities to champion our patriotic views is horrifying but true. Our best universities have been staffed with professors who are either Communists, Islamists, Fascists or Atheists --- one must ask who put the presidents and the governing boards of these institutions of higher learning into their places of power, to do the hiring of these seditious, anti-American so-called professors. According to an article by James Lewis in the American Thinker, when Hillary Clinton went to Wellesley, she instantly fell for Saul Alinsky and became a lifelong Alinskyist. At that time, every single professor at Wellesley was a Communist. How could this be? Why were Communists hired? And now the criminal terrorist pervert Bill Ayers, who wriggled out of a prison sentence for murder and blowing up public buildings because of his father's political clout in Chicago, has been granted a position as "Distinguished Professor of Education" at Chicago University, and his wife and partner in crime, Bernadette Dohrn, was somehow made a professor of "Women's Studies" at Northwestern, not far from Chicago.
Where can we send our children to be educated properly? Where are the authorities who believe in the patriotic, American philosophies of our Founding Fathers? The infiltration seems all-pervasive. Must we avoid a college education? Why are all these Moslems teaching at our schools? How many Christians teach at schools in Moslem countries?
Rifqa Bary terrifies the entire Islamic world because she is a person who thinks and discerns for herself what she wants to believe. And this is anathema to Islam, you are not supposed to think, you are only supposed "to believe". Woe to America. How can we get our colleges purged of all this sedition?

[julia_gwin]

Video begins to play, then cuts off after 3 or 4 minutes. Very compelling video - please make it fully available!

[dented_uk]

40 minutes, wish it was hours lol. I could listen to the three of you for hours.
Brilliant video. Thank You.

Spread the video around.

[dented_uk]

Try cleaning up your cookies etc before you play it.

[pakay]

Julia, Bliptv is playing the video while it's loading. Not sure why that process gets stalled-out sometimes. Hope you can get it to "co-operate" so you can watch the dynamic trio!

[dented_uk]

O/T What is this I hear about raids to do with Newspaper Unions (NYT, NYP et)? Fox News

[Salixj]

Thank you thank you Pamela for working so hard for freedom and for Rifqa

[Richard]

Jonah, I believe she lost the sight in her right eye when the older of her two brothers threw something at her. IIRC it was a cup.

Sarasoto, please do not lump athiests together with communists, Islamists, and fascists. When you do so you defame some courageous athiests: Hugh Fitzgerald and Ayan Hirsi Ali, among others. While I don't compare myself to Fitzgerald or Hirsi Ali, I am an athiest and I am as much a patriot as anyone around.

[Pamela Geller]

Richard has not been following the case closely and/or is not a regular Atlas reader. His information is wrong. It has been reported here for months that Rifqa was told to say she fell on a toy airplane on the couch when in fact it was her older brother that threw something at her that took her eye out.

Rifqa speaks of it on her interview with law enforcement. The transcript and audio is on my site.

[Richard]

How does "in fact it was her older brother that threw something at her that took her eye out" not equal "she lost the sight in her right eye when the older of her two brothers threw something at her"? Not sure what I missed there Pamela. Perhaps you misread my comment? I've been following the case closely and I visit this site several times a day.

[Pamela Geller]

My bad Richard. Responding to the wrong thread. Forgive me

[Richard]

Of course. No worries.

Now that I'm home from work I had time to watch the video of the panel. Fantastic. No one is doing more for Rifqa than you are Pamela.