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Special Edition: Steyn Presents Scary World Scenario

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Conservative writer and talk show host Mark Steyn (seen with Rabbi Jonathan Hausman in photo) drew hundreds of people to the Thursday night and the people got a proverbial bucket of ice water over the head and a verbal slap on the face to "wake up and get involved."

Steyn, who is best known as a substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh show, said that "While Islam is planning for tomorrow, Americans seek faster ways to live in the present." He criticized the leaders of Europe and the United States for sounding off about an obscure minister who threatened to burn the Koran, while ignoring Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Arab countries, that burn the bible, assault women, force female sexual mutilation, and have 'honor killings' for their daughters.

"I don't need a President or Prime Minister of Western Countries to criticize an obscure minister, I need them to stand up for Judeo-Christian values," Steyn said.

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He's also worried about the economies of North America, adding, "We need an alliance of non-compliance to roll back government and spending."

Steyn is concerned about Political Correctness gone amuck, and the slow deterioration of free speech across the planet. "When someone threatens you because of a cartoon, it should be printed in EVERY paper. Sharing the risk is the key. We will lose our freedoms incrementally with leftist governments, and Islamic Sharia laws."

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As for the political correctness, Steyn said, "Sensitivity Training is a form of Totalitarianism. We should teach anti-sensitivity. We need thicker skins." As for the problems in the Middle East, he says that "America and the Western Nations have made themselves irrelevent there. President Obama warned Libya's Khadafi that the world was watching. He knows that. He's a dictator. What happens in a world with no American Order? The Muslims will grow to a third of all the world's population. And, unfortunately for their citizens, they will live in countries that destroy all forward progress. Somalia's top business is pirating. Civilizations will retreat to a few citidels. It's a broader existential crisis."

He said that anyone taking a stand against Islamic imperialism is considered a conservative and is targeted. "We have to re-light the lamp of liberty so that all of us are carrying the torch of liberty. The lamps are flaming out all over the world. Governments punish those who expose the Islamic threat, rather than address it."

Steyn's book, "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It," discusses much of the themes he discussed before the large supportive crowd at the Temple.  WTKK-96.9 FM Talk Host Michael Graham entertained the crowd before Steyn spoke. Rabbi Hausman announced further speeches by similar speakers through the spring and early summer.

On March 16th at 7:30 p.m., ATC will feature "Iranium: The Movie", with Special Guest Claire Lopez, author of  "Sharia the Threat" published by the Center for Policy Security.  On April 14 at 7:30 p.m., the Temple welcomes Andy McCarthy, a top federal prosecutor who successfully sent blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to jail following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is the author of "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of Jihad" and "The Grand Jihad." Then, on May 26 at 7:30 p.m., an evening with Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschner (a.k.a. Dry Bones). He will discuss "Antisemitism: The Behavioral Virus."

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