Live Panel: International Human Rights Day: What the West Needs to Know, Geller, Spencer, Hamid, Sekulow, McDonnell

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I will buzzing about the next few days and will be speaking in DC. If you are in the Washington area on Thursday the 16th, join us.

Ashraf Ramelah, President of Voice of the Copts, has put together a powerful panel to speak out against the unspeakable persecution and genocide of the Coptic Christians by Islamic supremacists.

Celebrating International Human Rights Day:
What the West Needs to Know

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 – Cannon Building – Independence Avenue and 1st Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 – Room 402 – Human Rights in the Middle East

Humanrights_623883486 Every person on the planet is entitled to human rights. The concept of human rights developed after World War II in response to the Holocaust. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concept of rights is not new and existed in pre-modern cultures in ancient Greek and Roman times where we find various indicators of rights, although not as a universal issue.

In Europe, during the Renaissance, we find the Twelve Articles which are considered the first record concerning human rights. In the 18th fundamental civil rights and civil freedoms included in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Today the world still struggles with human rights. While the majority of Westerners acknowledges human rights and fights to defend them, the majority of the Middle East (except the State of Israel) denies these rights. Western governments and NGOs have great concern over human rights abuses in the Middle East resulting in politically correct reports and soft condemnation.

In preparing this conference we bring together scholars, authors, activists, organizers, and journalists concentrating in the area of human rights and hope to offer a perspective which demands a much firmer approach by the U.S. and other Western governments to the issues.

At this point we have not taken the real actions necessary to effectively defend human rights around the world. It is unacceptable that we continue to overlook human rights violations. This is the time to act!

 

Conference Program

12:00 p.m.

Ashraf Ramelah
Voice of the Copts Founder and President

Opening Remarks

12:10 p.m.

Pamela Geller
Editor and Publisher
of
Atlas Shrugs Executive Director
FDI SIOA

Encroaching Shariah in America

12:30 p.m.

Tawfik Hamid
Author of Inside Jihad:
Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam
Do We Need Democracy in the Middle East?

12:50 p.m.
Faith McDonnell

Director of the Religious Liberty Program at the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC
Human Rights in the Middle East: Lessons from 14 years of Advocacy

1:10 p.m.

Jordan Sekulow 
Director of Policy and International Operation
Defending the Persecuted: The ACLJ's Legal Defense
of
Christian Minoritie

1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Break

1:50 p.m
Robert Spencer 
Director of Jihad Watch
   Author of The Truth About Muhammad

2:10 p.m.
Ali Ayami 
Director of Center for Democracy
and
Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Human Rights Under the Saudi-Wahhabi Rule

2:30 p.m.

  Nazir Bhatti
President Pakistan Chistian Congress
Statement Concerning Asia Bibi

2:45 p.m.
Ahmar Mustikhan
American Friends of Balochistan 
Human Rights Scene in Balochistan

3:00 p.m.
Ashraf Ramelah
 
Closing: Call to Action
                            

 3:10 p.m.
Audience Q & A

 4:00 p.m. Thank You for Participating

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13 years ago

correction: human rights started with the torah: do not oppress the stranger; or the orphan or the widow (exodus 22:21,22), “justice, justice shall you pursue” (deut. 16:20). the torah is full of these kinds of rules. do not oppress the stranger ecause you were strangers in the land of egypt.
the greeks and romans had a terrible record of ‘human rights” look what they did to the jews!

Miss American Pie
Miss American Pie
13 years ago

Thanks for posting Pamela – I hope and pray that your conference and posting will reach a great number of people – what is going on in Egypt and other places hostile to Christians, Jews, and other religions is just terrifing. I’m glad that they are going to talk about Asia Bibi too! May God bless your conference!!!!

Matt Ross
Matt Ross
13 years ago

Thanks for bringing attention to this. The Coptic Church has been in existence since the beginning.

Al Kidya
Al Kidya
13 years ago

This is just wonderful.
What a conference panel you have put together here.
I am so pleased that you have included Nazir Bhatti to speak on Asia Bibi’s behalf.
I wish I could afford to be there.
BTW, Pamela, I don’t know if you remember Andrew Lawton from the blog “Strictly Right“?
Apparently he is in ill health and needs our prayers at this time. More here:

Mackie
Mackie
13 years ago

And just only 3 blocks down the street sits the antithesis,and the purveyors of anti-human rights, CAIRS main headquarters. But then again so is the US Capital Building.

salah
salah
13 years ago

“Every person on the planet is entitled to human rights”…That’s what YOU say. What ALLAH says is quite the opposite. Watch this slideshow (pps) and draw your own conclusions.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

Davod
Davod
13 years ago

Please provide the room name and number.

Jamadagnii
Jamadagnii
13 years ago

Sorry I can not be there, sounds like a great conference. If I were there I would ask is modernization compatible with Islam? Are the tiny incremental improvements taking place in Saudia Arabia, for instance, going to change the character of Islam in the long run in the Middle East, or is it going to be country by country deciding on what is acceptable? Is it considered “colonialism” in the Mideast for the West to expect Muslim countries to conform to western ideals of human rights?

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