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Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the David Horowitz Freedom Center present:
Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What?
A discussion with Raymond Ibrahim
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 • 7:00 p.m.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
"You can sit here and talk about jihad from here to doomsday, what will it do? Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there?"
"A jihad-waging, sharia-enforcing caliphate represents a permanent, existentialist enemy—not a temporal foe that can be bought or pacified through diplomacy or concessions. Such a caliphate is precisely what Islamists around the world are feverishly seeking to establish. Without active, preemptive measures, it is only a matter of time before they succeed.
"...as it becomes clear that violence and intolerance are inextricably linked to concepts like caliphate, jihad, and sharia, so too should it become clear that the threat they pose is here to stay: the caliphate, jihad, and sharia have a 1400-year legacy, prompting Dabashi's observation: "Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there?" (1)
Raymond Ibrahim, associate director of the Middle East Forum and author of The Al Qaeda Reader, will discuss in detail what we face in this very real threat to our civilization.
You do not want to miss this very important event
Raymond Ibrahim is a historian and writer on the Middle East and Islam, and author of THE AL-QAEDA READER. Born in the U.S. to Coptic Egyptian parents, he was raised in a bilingual environment, and is fluent in Arabic. He was educated at California State University, Fresno (BA and MA in History) and has done graduate work in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of Georgetown University.
Ibrahim's op-eds, essays, translations, and al-Qaeda related analyses have appeared in various publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, The Washington Times, Financial Times, National Review Online, and The Washington Post. He has been interviewed on a number of radio and TV programs from across the political spectrum (from "conservative" Fox News to "liberal" NPR), and has lectured at several colleges and universities as well as governmental agencies, such as the U.S. State Department.
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