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ACTION ALERT !!!
CONTACT LOEWS HOTELS TO EXPRESS
YOUR DISAPPROVAL OF NASHVILLE HOTEL
CANCELING CONFERENCE
On Monday we emailed you the NewsMax story which reported that the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville abruptly canceled a conference titled “Understanding the Jihad in Israel, Europe and America,” which featured numerous authors and speakers and a showing of Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ film “Fitna.”
Hotel managing director Tom Negri was quoted in The Tennessean newspaper: “We canceled the group for both the safety and the health of our guests and employees here at Vanderbilt hotel.”
Negri refused to provide any specific examples of “threats.” Even if such occurred, if all that was necessary to get hotels across America to cancel conferences was some threats, then free speech as we know it would be gone.
Whether threats from Islamists actually occurred, or whether Negri cancelled the conference for other reasons that he is not revealing, this occurrence is a perfect illustration of the early stages of “cultural jihad” in a free society like ours – and makes the case why conferences like the one Negri canceled are so necessary.
During the early stages, Islamists and their apologists speciously claim that those critical of radical Islam are engaging in what they call “hate speech.” They use threats and other forms of intimidation to prevent speech they don’t agree with from occurring. With every victory, as in this case in Nashville, they are emboldened, increasing their demands and intimidation tactics.
Just ask Austrian Member of Parliament Susanne Winter where this road ultimately leads. In January Ms. Winter was convicted of the “crime” of publicly insulting Islam.
We stop that road from going there by acting now.
ACTION ALERT
We are therefore urging every ACT! for America member to either phone or email the national Loews Hotels Vice President of Public Relations, Emily Goldfischer. (A phone call is preferable). When you do, in a respectful but clear and concerned manner, communicate the following:
- Express your disapproval of the action Tom Negri took in cancelling the conference.
- Ask that Loews Hotels publicly investigate the action Negri took, disavow Negri’s action, and apologize to the New English Review, the organization that sponsored the conference.
- Let Ms. Goldfischer know that until Loews corporate offices issues such a public repudiation of Mr. Negri’s actions you will not do business with or stay in a Loews Hotel.
Ms. Goldfischer can be reached at the following phone number and email address in New York:
Phone: (212) 521-2833
Fax: (212) 521-2379
Email:
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If Ms. Goldfischer is unreachable (which may be the case if enough of you take action!!) contact Ellen Gale, Vice President of Public Relations for the Loews Nashville Regional office at her contact information below.
Ellen Gale
Phone: (202) 587-2686
Email:
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If you get through to either Ms. Goldfischer or Ms. Gale, or you receive an email reply, please let us know at
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Your taking action will send a message to Loews – and other American corporations – that there are countless Americans who will not sit by when intimidation tactics are used to suppress the constitutional rights we enjoy. Rights which include the right to publicly examine, critique and speak out against the threat of radical Islam.
Your taking action will also send a loud and clear message to Islamists that the silent consent to their intimidation tactics, which has unfortunately been so prevalent in Europe and Great Britain over the past 30 years, will not happen here in America.
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