American Freedom Alliance With a special guest appearance by Stephen H. Balch All participants will receive a free hardback copy of the new National Asssociation of Scholar's report: The Vanishing West: The Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm Special Instructions: Participants are advised to wear walking shoes, since there is a 300 feet walk up a steep driveway to the Literary Cafe location. Admission: $15.00 About the book: Over the past twenty years the United States and the West in general has witnessed a slow erosion of its civilizational self confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics in Western universities, intellectuals such as Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Edward Said, and Noam Chomsky, and through destructive intellectual fashions such as post-modernism, moral relativism, and mulitculturalism, the West has lost much of its belief in its own values and seems incapable and unwilling to defend those values. By contrast, resurgent Islam, in all its forms, is supremely confident, and is able to exploit the West's moral weaknesses and cultural confusion to demand ever more concessions. The growing political and demographic power of Muslim communities in the West, aided and abetted by Western apologists of Islam, has resulted in an ever-increasing demand for the implementation of Islamic law-the Sharia- into the fabric of Western law and Western constitutions. The book defines and defends Western values - and its many freedoms that are often taken for granted. This book also tackles the taboo subjects of racism in Asian culture, Arab slavery and Islamic Imperialism. It begins with a homage to New York City, as a metaphor for all we hold dear in Western culture- pluralism, individualism, freedom of expression and thought, the complete freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness unhampered by totalitarian regimes and theocratic doctrines.
Special guest appearance Stephen H. Balch was the founding president and is currently the chairman of the National Association of Scholars. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California and was for fourteen years a member of the faculty of the Department of Government and Public Administration of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York. In 2007 he received the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award from the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Please call the AFA office at (310) 444-3085 for reservations |
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