I was scheduled to speak at Malibu’s Pepperdine University tonight for Islamo-Fascism Week but it has been postponed because of the fires. Classes at Pepperdine have been cancelled for the day, but we will reschedule. As soon as we have the new date, I’ll let you know.
Also, for those of you near Penn State, I will be speaking there on November 7. Mark your calendars for that and I’ll have more details about that appearance for you soon.
As a faithful devotee of your work and site, I would like to know if you will be speaking at any college/university in the hoosier state in the near future. Having seen your work on c-span several times I would love to experience it in person. Believe me, the MALNARS have metastasized themselves to the willing flocks of our three biggest schools, Indiana, Purdue, and shockingly even Notre Dame. Shame on us.
Tammy, I was attending Los Angeles Harbor College when you spoke there several years ago. I regret not hearing you speak. I hope to see you lecture in the future. As for the fires here, the ash fallout is making things a mess right now in San Pedro as I type. Maybe the ash will help my garden but it’s playing hell with my eyes right now.
Tammy, I am taking my two daughters to the lecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Wed, the 24th, can you make the 3hr. drive north to add to the program? The University website does not advertise wednesdays event, nor does the map of the campus tell you where that particular venue is. I spent 2hrs. hunting it down, it is a 170 seat auditorium in the Performing Arts Center. I am not familiar with the gentleman that will be speaking, can you tell us anything about him?
I took my two bright beautiful daughters ages 14 and 20 to a symposium on Islamic fascism at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo tonight. I am sure they had reservations about my idea of a good time, but I’d like to think they went just because they wanted to spend time with their dad.
I won’t tell you too much about speaker and film, he was an effective speaker, and the film was well done and purposely one sided. The theme was that Islam, if practiced fundamentally according to the Koran and hadithes is anything but a religion of peace. Around the world fundamentalist Islam is becoming mainstream Islam, and the west better start realizing that it is incompatible with liberal western culture.
The question and answer period was largely childish speeches about spreading hate and having a right wing agenda with few cogent questions, embarrassing.
The last scene in the movie was of a mullah in Baghdad speaking, screaming to an enormous crowd, waving a sword over his head and exhorting the crowd to spend the rest of their lives killing Americans , Jews and unbelievers, for the glory of Allah, and the promise of paradise for those who are successful. We were sitting in the middle of the front row, and the scene so reminded me of Hitlers speeches, that I threw up a Nazi salute and said loudly “Sieg Heil!” thinking of course to seed the thought of the relationship to the rest of the audience.
Approximately 40% of the audience got the reference, mostly the older folks and the one young fellow sitting behind me proudly wearing his shirt with Hebrew written on it.
Ten minutes into the question and answer period things were generally deteriorating intellectually, when an older gentleman stood and was recognized. He started by saying that as a Jew and a holocaust survivor, he had a different perspective on the presentation. I thought OK, now we will get some insight with meat on the bone. He went on to say that he found the presentation so one sided and the last scene of the movie so reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda films of his youth that the real fascists were likely the presenters of the symposium. The irony was jaw dropping!
The whole thing took about two hours and on the way out, I apologized for dragging the girls to the event, they said it was great! and we talked non-stop all the way home. I had a GREAT TIME when I heard that, I want my children to be thinking large, to be aware in a time where real ideas about real conflicts are too politically incorrect for college campuses.