Ted Cruz rocks the Defeat Jihad Summit
Friday, February 13, 2015
It's almost enough to give you hope that we can confront our enemies honestly. But it is a long war and we need to steel ourselves for it. These inspiring words from Sen. Ted Cruz will help with that, He spoke for 30 minutes at the Center for Security Policy's Defeat Jihad Summit and we were all ready to march across the street and shake some sense into Congress when he was done.
(Washington, D.C.): Today, an extraordinary gathering of freedom-fighters in what might best be described as the War for the Free World convened in Washington, D.C. Their purpose was to anticipate and rebut the thesis of President Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism Summit” next week – namely, that the United States faces hostile forces whose identity, motivations and capabilities are defined by an opaque euphemism: violent extremism.
The “Defeat Jihad Summit” was sponsored by the Center for Security Policy and brought together present and former, domestic and foreign political leaders, senior military officers, national security professionals and other experts on Islamic supremacism and its guiding doctrine, shariah. Among the noteworthy participants in this roundtable discussion were:
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
- former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey
- former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
- S. Senator Ted Cruz
- Representative Steven King
- Representative Mike Pompeo
- Representative Scott Perry
- former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pet Hoekstra
- former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy
- Admiral James “Ace” Lyons (U.S. Navy, Ret.)
- Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin (U.S. Army, Ret.)
- Leading 9/11 family member Deborah Burlingame
- Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders
- Danish free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard
- Britain’s Lord Malcolm Pearson
- Israeli Amb. Yoram Ettinger
- former Muslim Nonie Darwish
- Muslim reformer Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
- Australian pastor Mark Durie
- former Representative Pete Hoekstra