[ April 26, 2024 ]
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization has condemned the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee for capitulating to Islamic supremacist threats and intimidation and canceling the Preserving Freedom Conference scheduled for November 11.
Steve Eckley, Senior Vice-President of Hutton Hotel, told conference organizers Monday that he had been getting threatening letters and calls, and that consequently the hotel would not honor its contract for the conference. Eckley even said that if conference organizers and attendees showed up at the hotel, they would not be let in.
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AFDI/SIOA executive director Pamela Geller, who is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the conference, noted that Hyatt Hotel Place in Sugar Land, Texas, similarly caved in to Islamic supremacist intimidation last week, canceling an event at which she was speaking.
"The Hyatt was subsequently inundated with calls and emails protesting their surrender to the foes of free speech," Geller said in a statement. "The Hyatt apologized and promised redress to the Sugar Land Tea Party. The Hutton Hotel has learned nothing from this, and again allowed enemies of free speech to run roughshod over the rights of Americans. This is the second time in no less than a week that a major hotel has capitulated to intimidation and demands to enforce the blasphemy laws under the Sharia here in America."
Geller called on the Hutton Hotel, at 1808 West End Avenue in Nashville, to apologize, reverse its cancellation, and hold AFDI/SIOA sensitivity training sessions to train its employees about the importance of the freedom of speech and the Islamic jihad threat.
"Why is the Hutton Hotel more afraid of fascists and supremacists than they are of losing our cherished freedoms?" asked Geller.
She also called upon free people to boycott the Hutton Hotel until this decision is reversed, and to contact the Hutton Hotel and politely and courteously protest the hotel's cancellation and capitulation to Islamic supremacism. "Americans must boycott these cowardly enterprises and raise their voices in protest," said Geller. The Hutton Hotel's telephone number is 615-340-9333; fax: 615-340-001. Steve Eckley: 720-318-4238.
The Preserving Freedom Conference was to feature Geller as a keynote speaker, along with Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Mark Durie, William Murray, Father Keith Roderick, and a host of voices for freedom.
"We will find a new venue," said Spencer, associate director of AFDI/SIOA, "but the Hutton Hotel's capitulation to Islamic supremacist threats and intimidation is a disgrace, and a disquieting reminder of just how much the freedom of speech is threatened in America today."
"The silencing of free speech is key to the Islamization of America," explained Geller. She chronicles many similar anti-freedom initiatives and explains how to combat them in her book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
AFDI/SIOA calls upon the Hutton to apologize for its capitulation to the enemies of freedom, and to hold sensitivity training sessions for all its employees to teach them the value of the freedom of speech and the truth about the jihad threat facing the U.S. and the West.
AFDI/SIOA offers diversity and sensitivity training to corporations and government agencies at the local, state and national levels.
AFDI/SIOA's diversity training is designed to help these entities understand the jihad threat in all its different manifestations, including Islamic supremacist cultural initiatives to assert Islamic law and practice in the American workplace. It helps them protect their business practices in the face of demands for special accommodation for Muslim employees.
For more information or to schedule a session, please write to [email protected].
AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
Join the SIOA Facebook group here.
For more information, contact Pamela Geller at [email protected].
SOURCE American Freedom Defense Initiative
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17 Comments
12 years ago
I know what I would do if I had future reservations at this Hotel.
12 years ago
I am kinda wondering what Hutton would have done if a violent anti Islamic organization existed?
12 years ago
This is not from Yahoo! News per se. It’s your own press release. Don’t make it seem like Yahoo! is on your side. As a matter of fact, very few are. Getting kicked out of two hotels within the same week? You cannot deceive the masses forever.
12 years ago
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
12 years ago
Idiot trolls. The dateline shows the source of the article as PRNewswire-USNewswire. It is obviously NOT Pamela’s own press release. Now go back under your bridge.
This hotel broke a contract, a bit different situation than with Hyatt, but I don’t see that SIOA will respond much differently.
What I really like abou this post is how AFDI/SIOA provided diversity training is offered. Brilliant! I love it, what a great idea. But tell me honestly, Pamela, has anyone let you bring this diversity training to their organization?
12 years ago
I sent an e-mail along with my disgust at their decision. Also gave them a few pointers as to where the real threats are coming from. Obviously ole’ Steve isn’t well versed on CAIR and their ilk. He is now!
Mac, Mac, Mac, you see, this is how people start learning about these groups such as CAIR and ISNA. Someone oblivious to all this (as I once was) stumbles across a story (as I once did) such as this and begins to read and research and dig and dig… All of a sudden they realize what’s going on right under their nose!!
Shocked by what’s been happening, they discuss it with their family, friends and neighbors, especially when something happens in the news. Then, we an urge like a mama bear, they get involved to protect their country. More and more people start catching on. It’s not 9/10/01 any longer. We’ve come a long way baby!
12 years ago
I want to see the threats the hotel got. Are they available? Who are they from? I’d like to start threatening them.
12 years ago
What a disgrace!shame on the hotel. Where are our American liberties going?. We have a right of free speech. Islamists are using threats of violence. Something is wrong with this picture. Time to not only stop immigration from Islamic countries but to send those that do not abide by our constitution to an Islamic country so they can follow their culture. It is more than obvious that Islamists do not want to assimilate. We as Americans need to wake up to this dangerous threat of islamists and those that follow sharia.
12 years ago
Mac, I didn’t know yahoo took sides. Please share your incite on the subject.
As for the hotel dude, Steve (why am I picturing him with Mitt Romney hair?) how could he get to be the manager of a large hotel? Could it be family connections? And now he has latent daddy-issues.
12 years ago
Vote with your wallet next time you need a Hotel. That they understand real well.
12 years ago
Spacejesus, Allah is NOT God and Mohammed was a false prophet.
12 years ago
Pamela, Islamists fly planes into buildings killing thousands of innocent civilians, they take over schools, slaughtering childten and are responsible for 99.9% of terrorism in the world, all the time screaming “Allahu ackbar” and YOU ARE THE EXTREMIST?!?! The world has gone mad.
12 years ago
sorry this has happened again to you and Robert. I wish I could arrange a place so you could speak. love to meet you. I wander what these people is going to cry about next. what if they had to be forced to watch one of there children being raped or killed. how would that hit them. and it is happening in other country’s and honor killings here in AMERICA. GOD help us all.the left is really doing a number on us. will it ever end. will we ever be FREE of the muslims.and islam.
12 years ago
haha – 2nd time in a week – take a hint morons, people are starting to catch on to your BS!!
12 years ago
“Why is the Hutton Hotel more afraid of fascists and supremacists than they are of losing our cherished freedoms?” asked Geller.
Mrs. Geller the reason why the hotel is afraid is because fascists and supremacists kill people and destroy things. They just want to be a happy hotel and cater to pleasant events such as book signings and Harry Potter conventions and business meetings. Congratulations your efforts have graduated to post-America pre-revolution preparations where you will need more of a style of meeting place like where you would garrison soldiers. A private aircraft hangar is a good place. Someone who sympathizes with you and happens to own a hotel is another. Another might be a very large private home, estate, farm or ranch.
Good luck and God bless!
12 years ago
The hotel should respect its employees differences!
12 years ago
“The silencing of free speech is key to the Islamization of America,” explained Geller. – Is Islamization another synonym of terrorism? Anyway.. breaking the contract is a response to fear by the manangement of this hotel. But being American means being free… free from everything including fear. If I were the management, I would rather prepare for whatever threats they gave to pursue the contract and secure the safety of those who are in the hotel.
