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Exposing the Threat of Islamist Terrorism
Third in a National Symposium Series
Saturday February 2, 2008
Ranch of the Lonesome Dove in Southlake, Texas
9am Start (7:45am arrival time to satisfy security check-in)
(Texas Bar-B-Que lunch included)
VIP Dinner & Cocktail Pre-Symposium Reception
Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX
Friday, February 1, 2008
7pm Start (6pm arrival time to satisfy security check-in)
Symposium Tickets: $149.00 per person
VIP Dinner Reception Tickets: $119.00 per person
Ticket purchase and reservation deadline: December 21, 2007
Speakers: 
Frank Gaffney
Founder and President Center for Security Policy
Atty. David Schippers
Former Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee, author, counter-terrorism expert
Dr. Wafa Sultan
Syrian-American Psychologist and internationally known critic of militant Islam
Dr. Paul Williams
Former FBI consultant, best-selling author and investigative journalist
Laura Mansfield
Middle Eastern linguistic expert and investigative reporter
 Dr. Harvey Kushner
Chairman of Criminal Justice Dept. of Long Island University, best-selling author, advisor to the FBI and FAA
Robert Spencer
Director of Jihad Watch, best-selling author and expert on radical Islam
Dr. Bruce Tefft
Founding member of CIAs Counterterrorism Task Force
David Harris
Chief of Strategic Planning of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Bahram Moshiri
Iranian ...   more »

By Julia Duin
Two years ago this month, a Saudi prince caused a media splash — and raised eyebrows — when he donated $20 million each to Georgetown and Harvard universities to fund Islamic studies.
Although few details have been released about how the money has been spent, at Georgetown, the money helped pay for a recent symposium on Islamic-Western relations held in the university's Copley Formal Lounge. The event attracted about 120 persons: students, Catholic priests, men in business suits and several women in colorful head scarves who all came to hear religion experts from several American universities, as well as from Bosnia, Ireland and Malaysia.
A member of the Norwegian royal family said he flew in just for the event.
"I just came here to learn the language scholars are using about these things," Prince Haakon of Norway said.
Some call the Saudi gift Arab generosity and gratitude for the years American universities have educated the elite of the Arab world. Others say the sheer size of the donations amounts to buying influence and creating bastions of noncritical pro-Islamic scholarship within academia.
"There's a possibility these campuses aren't getting gifts, they're getting investments," said Clifford May, president of ...   more »

After koshering a wing of the White House kitchen with US First Lady Laura Bush, Rabbi Levi Shemtov—dubbed the "Rabbi of Capital Hill"—sets out on his Hanukkah mission. Take a look as Attorney General Michael Mukasey lights Hanukkah candles, President Bush pays his respect to Chabad representatives
Israel Bardugo
WASHINGTON - The larger-than-life Hanukkiya towers over gathered onlookers on the Ellipse—a manicured field located near the White House. Crowds fill the carefully-groomed lawn bundled up with heavy jackets in an attempt to insulate themselves from the teeth-chattering cold.   
Rabbi Abraham Shemtov wields the microphone and, among much fanfare, calls US Attorney General Michael Mukasey to the podium. Together the pair mounts the crane located nearby and the crowd closely watches as they place a torch up against the large wick to light an oversized Hanukkah candle. The crowd erupts into applause that continue on long after Shemtov and Mukasey put their feet back onto the ground.  
As Mukasey gets off the crane, he delivers a short and concise holiday message: "It's not easy to fight for freedom, the struggle of Hanukkah continues to this day. Today we have Iraq and Afghanistan, just like in the past (there were ...   more »

By Stephen Dinan - MIAMI — Mike Huckabee jokes that if he's not the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, someone better tell the other campaigns to turn their fire elsewhere.
While he's not quite comfortable with the term front-runner — "I would like to say we're 'emerging,' " he said yesterday — the former Arkansas governor finds himself facing near-smothering press attention and the concentrated attacks from other campaigns. But whatever he's called, his emergence means the former two-man race between Mitt Romney and Rudolph W. Giuliani is now a lot more complicated.
Mr. Huckabee spent the morning in Miami yesterday picking up the endorsement of one of Florida's most powerful politicians, House Speaker Marco Rubio, the latest in a line of substantial backers Mr. Huckabee is amassing.
Mr. Rubio said he had planned to stay neutral in the race, but in the past few weeks had felt compelled to back Mr. Huckabee as the candidate who best communicates a pro-life, conservative-values message. Mr. Rubio said that's what helps Mr. Huckabee spar with far better-funded campaigns.
"There's a difference between a campaign and a movement," Mr. Rubio said. "When you're leading a movement, all you need is people. And ...   more »