‘Rays of Light’ Five honored for fighting terrorism
A former Islamic extremist, two senators, a former CIA director and a Lebanese man who missed his parents’ funerals rather than be silenced were honored last week as “Rays of Light in the Darkness” during EMET-the Endowment for Middle East Truth’s third annual awards dinner.
About 225 people gathered in the Russell Senate office building to pay tribute to Sens. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), former CIA director James Woolsey, Fox News television terrorism analyst Walid Phares and former Islamic extremist Tawfik Hamid.
I am proud to say that Tawfik Hamid spoke at the May 3rd rally in defense of Human Rights in Times Square.
Below is a snippet from the article discussing the awards ceremony:
The Egyptian-born Hamid and former member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group — who said he is “Muslim by faith, Christian by spirit and Jewish by heart, and I am a human being” — urged everyone to fight the war “against darkness, of good against evil, of civilization against barbarianism.”
“This war we cannot afford to lose. We either win this war or we will live in the future in a Taliban world,” said Hamid, a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and President of Global Movement against Radical Islam.
Phares, a senior fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., told the gathering that he worries that students are being misled.
“The ’90s was a terrible decade. We were at peace, but the stealth jihad was going on,” he said, adding that “hundreds of millions of dollars” were being spent by oil-rich countries in the “diseducation” of American students.
“If people don’t understand the true history and how far back it goes, then they don’t understand the threat the world is under,” said Phares. “If the American majority gets it, then I would not be concerned about our future,” he said.
Phares came to America in 1990 from Beirut. Since then, both his parents have died. When he tried to return to Lebanon for their funerals, he was told he would first have to quit what he was doing. Both times, he opted instead to continue his struggle.
In his remarks, Woolsey spoke of three threats: America’s dependence on foreign oil, the “double standards” that “are creeping into Israeli peace talks” — Would Jews, he wondered, be allowed to sit in the Cabinet and comprise one-sixth the population of the proposed Palestinian state as Arabs now do in Israel? — and political correctness.
Explaining the latter, he complained that new definitions in which the fight against terrorism is termed “overseas contingency operations” will only confuse the issue, and “if you don’t talk straight, you won’t think straight.”
Will terrorists be called “anger management candidates” in need of “custodial care?” he said, adding no matter the label, “It is Islamic-inspired terrorism.”
I am extremely proud that HRCARI is affiliated with a man of such extreme integrity, Tawfik Hamid.
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