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EVENT: Shariah in the West: Libel Tourism
A Discussion with Andrew C. McCarthy
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
12:00 PM
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
2:00 PM
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Ethics and Public Policy Center
1015 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20005
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Rick Santorum and EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom are pleased to present a three-part symposium exploring the relationship between Shariah law and the West. As supporters of secular democracy are forced to engage those who would seek to install a global Islamic theocracy, challenging tensions are inevitable, and much hinges on the response we give. The series aims to instigate appropriate reflection on what it is we seek to defend, and how U.S. policy might go about doing that in a long battle where the weapons are not limited to stolen airplanes, but rather include the quieter tools of language, law, and financial institutions. This first event will feature Andrew McCarthy on the subject of libel tourism, a form of forum shopping currently being manipulated to suppress criticism of radical Islam. Mr. McCarthy holds the Chair of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Prior to joining FDD, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he was involved in the prosecution of both foreign and domestic terrorism. After September 11, he supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City. Mr. McCarthy is a regular contributor at National Review Online and Commentary where he writes on a wide range of subjects including law, terrorism, and national security. The second event will feature Nonie Darwish and Angela Wu on the subject of U.N. Defamation Laws, and will occur on May 12 from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. A third event will be held in late spring and will explore the rise and international acceptance of Shariah-compliant finance, and the ways in which classic Western institutions may or may not choose to accommodate it. More details about these events will be forthcoming.
For more information, please contact Anne Snyder at asnyder@eppc.org or 202.682.1204.
More Information
Anne Snyder
1730 M Street N.W.
Suite 910
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-682-1204
Fax: 202-408-0632
E-mail: asnyder@eppc.org
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Give the Gift of Ideas
Gift subscriptions to EPPC's journal 'The New Atlantis' now available
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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