Declaration Against Genocide

U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) will deliver the keynote address at a reception on February 9 marking the beginning of a campaign in behalf of a Declaration Against Genocide. The reception will take place at 6 p.m. at Washington D.C.’s Omni Shoreham Hotel at 2500 Calvert Street, NW, following the conclusion of the 2008 Conservative Political Action Convention.

Rep. Myrick, who has established herself as an expert on jihadism and homeland security in her six terms in office, helped form and is presently co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus. The title of her address is “Is Radical Islam Infiltrating America?”

David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, will appear with Rep. Myrick at the event. He will speak about the Declaration Against Genocide, which will be circulated for signatures on campuses across the country.

The Declaration notes in its preamble that the Sudanese and other Africans have been victims of a slow motion genocide, and that Islamo- fascists in the Middle East are preparing a new genocide against the Jews.

In describing the objectives of the Declaration, Horowitz says: “We are asking all campus groups to repudiate the genocidal passage in the Islamic Hadith which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”

Horowitz continues: “We are also asking all campus groups, including the Muslim Students Association, to condemn the Hamas Charter which says: `Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.’ Signers of the Declaration will also be asked to repudiate the Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has said `The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.’ And Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, who called the Jews `a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment,’ and has said, “If the Jews `all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.’ These are hateful doctrines that threaten the lives not only of Jews, but of all Americans.”

In addition to condemning the genocidal agenda of these leaders and organizations, the Declaration calls on campus groups to affirm “the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to change religions or have no religion at all; the equal dignity of men and women; and the right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation and coercion.”

Student activists attending the February 9 event will be part of a signing ceremony and then take the Declaration back to their campuses for action by groups and individuals.

“Although a Declaration Against Genocide should be seen as a document with universal appeal,” Horowitz notes, “a coalition of groups with ties to the Islamo-fascist jihad are bound to protest this effort. Our goal is to test universities’ claims that they support religious and ethnic tolerance, and to challenge the campus left, which consistently overlooks statements by Islamic radicals which are nothing less than an invitation to mass murder.”

Elizabeth Ruiz works with the David Horowitz Freedom Center.