MK Dr. Arye Eldad's Facing Jihad education conference was held in Jerusalem at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on Sunday.
The conference had the participation of notable speakers like controversial Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Professor John Lewis of Duke University, Sudanese former slave / now Christian freedom-fighter Simon Deng, the redoubtable Dr. Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, Palestine Media Watch executive director Itamar Marcus, Dr. Davi Bukay, and others. Despite the lack of mainstream media attention, several bloggers have been following it.
Andrew Bostom has a post, Geert Wilders in Jerusalem “The Jihad against Israel is the Jihad against the West” with the full text of the Wilders speech at his blog. Hugh Fitzgerld has an important essay on this Jerusalem event, “Jihad Against Israel,” on Jihad Watch. (courtesy Israpundit's Jerry Gordon)
An international conference like no other was held in Jerusalem Sunday. The conference, called Facing Jihad, organized by MK Aryeh Eldad, dealt with the current world wide threat posed by Islamic holy war, Jihad, and what can be done about it. Dutch MP Geert Wilders was also present, and the attendees watched a screening of his famous short film, Fitna.
”Islam is an ideology,” Wilders told Israel National News. “It rules everything, not only from birth to death but everything in between, everything in the life. So I believe Islam should not be compared with Judaism or Christianity, but with other totalitarian ideologies like communism or fascism. This what we are dealing with.”
Wilders added: “Your fight against Jihad is our fight against Jihad. It’s not a territorial conflict. It’s an ideological conflict.”
Watch the knowledgeable, American counter-jihad expert, Dr. John Lewis (Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University) explains the goals and tactics of the "Islamic totalitarian state-ism" movement. (Sequential segments all follow Robert Spencer's repeated :20 second intro).
