Europeans to join Israelis in anti-Islam summit

Europeans to join Israelis in anti-Islam summit
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Israel Today
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=17078

A right-wing Israeli lawmaker announced on Wednesday that some 30
European parliamentarians have agreed to attend an upcoming
conference at the Israeli Knesset dealing with the threat posed by
Islam's spread across Europe.

National Union representative Aryeh Eldad said that the conference,
entitled "Facing Jihad: A Lawmaker's Summit," is planned for
December 14-15, and will also be a showcase of support for the
Jewish state by his European guests.

The centerpiece of the gathering will be the short film "Fitna,"
created by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders earlier this year to
demonstrate how Islam and the Koran promote terrorism and pose a
threat to modern European and Western society.

Wilders will join the other European lawmakers at the summit, and is
scheduled to give the keynote address.

Eldad hopes that the summit will end with the Israelis and Europeans
forming a new Judeo-Christian alliance to confront the spread of
Islam and the violence that inevitably follows in its wake.

The summit plans are being furiously opposed by Arab members of
Israel's Knesset like Ahmed Tibi, who accused Eldad and his European
friends of being racists.

Tibi was formerly an aid to Yasser Arafat, and has spent his years
in the Knesset encouraging Israel's Arabs to subvert Israeli
authorities.

He and other Arab lawmakers, along with the more left-leaning Jewish
Knesset members, are urging Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik to deny
Eldad permission to host the summit.

Eldad says that if Itzik denies his request, he will petition
Israel's Supreme Court on the grounds of freedom of speech. He also
warned Itzik against alienating a group of European parliamentarians
who are brave enough in today's politically-correct atmosphere to
still unconditionally support Israel and its right to sovereignty
over all its God-given lands.