Update February 21st: Judy attended and wrote a review of the conference here.
Update February 19th: I’ve heard first hand from attendees that the event was excellent. However, Lawrence Auster makes some good points here about the squishiness of most to address the Muslim immigration question.
Update February 17th: CAIR tries to kill this event! Read all about it!
CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Committee that will be holding its annual gathering of Conservatives in Washington this week. Check out their schedule of speakers and other events here.
Just as last year when Judy and I attended the event with Geert Wilders ( here and here are posts on that controversial event), it seems that anything to do with Islamic supremacism is always a side event for the inside-the-beltway Conservatives who make the decisions about CPAC’s agenda.
It’s not too late, if you are in the DC area, to get to this important seminar on Islamic Jihad put on by a new group led by two of our favorite bloggers, Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) and Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch), called the Freedom Defense Initiative. Here is what they say in their recent press announcement:
The conference is designed to educate Americans about the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration at the highest levels of the U.S. government, as well as its war on free speech: its attempt to silence and discredit those who speak up against the jihad and Sharia encroachment in the West. Emphasis will be on the international character of the jihad against the West and on how the Islamic war on free speech (and the media’s self-imposed blackout on this issue, as in the Fort Hood massacre) is part and parcel of the same jihad against the West that terrorists are pursuing by violent means.
Go to the press release and check out the great list of speakers that you would not find in one place if it weren’t for the hard work of Spencer and Geller. Note you must register in advance for this February 19th event!
Update: Judy just sent me this link to an American Thinker article by Geller and Spencer with further clarification, including this:
This conference will be held at the Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, the site of CPAC, on February 19, from 10AM to noon. It is at the site of CPAC, but it is an independent event supplying the crucial information that the mainstream media (as well as the conservative establishment) ignores. We chose CPAC because it is the largest gathering of conservatives across America, and so it is the most appropriate place to end the near-universal silence about the true nature and magnitude of the jihad threat against our nation.