Conference Schedule Partners Thank you to all of our partners for your support. O Canada - Lily Wang (1:00-1:02) Introduction - David Nitkin (1:02-1:05) What is Islamophobia? - Deborah Weiss (1:05-1:25) Heritage Committee - Madeline Weld (1:25-1:35) Video World Premiere: M-103: Islamophobia Cure or Sharia Trap? - Leo Adler (1:35-1:45) The Prime Minister and Political Leadership - Tom Quiggin (1:45-2:05) Impacts on Muslims - Raheel Raza (2:05-2:20) M-103: ISLAMOPHOBIA CURE OR SHARIA TRAP? - Break (Lobby) - (2:20-2:40) The Founding Members of C3RF welcome you to this important conference. Some of you are here in Toronto, others at simulcast Lessons Learned Internationally - Dr Gad Saad (2:20-2:40) satellite centres, and still others participating at home by remote Impacts on Women - Anni Cyrus (2:40-3:00) feed. The speakers you see, hear, and talk to today believe that Canadians face a real threat from Motion M-103. Freedom of Impacts on Muslims - Tarek Fatah (3:00-3:15) speech and one law for all will be under threat if M-103 is Media Apathy or Media Politics - Anthony Furey (3:15-3:30) implemented unevenly, poorly, and without open consultation by the Heritage Committee. - Break (Lobby) - (3:30-3:50) Those who have lived under "Islamophobia" or blasphemy laws Education and Freedom of Speech - Bill Warner (3:30-3:50) know what the word means in international law, how it is Impacts on LGBTQ promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood, how it is enforced by - Yusuf Celik, Ben Dichter, Sue-Ann Levy (3:50-4:35) countries within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and what it portends to a chill of legitimate freedom of expression and Impacts of M-103 on Free Speech - Clare Lopez (4:35-4:55) freedom of speech rights in Canada. TAZPIT PRESS SERVICE Thank You - Valerie Price (4:55) The Heritage Committee has refused to invite C3RF to appear as a witness, or to hold public hearings across the country. One Speaker Spotlight Sessions: Meet and Ask Questions C3RF response is this conference. A second is an array of 12:30 1:00 meetings, social media efforts and advocacy initiatives to Media Interview Room Madeline Weld / Raheel persuade Parliament that fear of mutah marriage, female genital Leo Adler Raza mutilation (FGM), wife beating, killing gays and lesbians, and introducing Sharia law in Canada isn't irrational, or racist, or 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 phobic. A third response is to bypass the Heritage Committee - to Ben Dichter / Deborah Tom Sue-Ann produce a C3RF video that is being premiered today that will be Yusuf Celik Weiss Quiggin Levy sent to all MPs and Senators about M-103, as well as the media, Founding Members David Nitkin Teresa Reinhart not just the Heritage Committee. 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 Loretta Levinson Andria Spindel Tarek Anthony Anni Clare Valerie Price Irving Weisdorf Join us. Welcome to a day of inspiration and responsible thought. Fatah Furey Cyrus Lopez Raheel Raza Madeline Weld David Nitkin, Conference Chair Speaker Biographies - for complete, detailed biographies, go to https://www.canadiancitizens.org/conference-speakers Leo Adler Literary Review of Canada. He regularly appears on talk radio Raheel Raza Leo Adler, criminal lawyer, is also a professor and author. He has and is featured on news channels. He has recently released Pulse Raheel Raza, an award winning journalist, public speaker, and appeared before various boards and tribunals and at inquests, and Attack: The Real Story Behind The Secret Weapon That Can Destroy advocate for human rights, gender equality and dignity in acted as counsel in extradition matters, trials and administrative North America, about electromagnetic pulse warfare. diversity is a leading global voice against Radical extremism. and quasi-criminal hearings. Mr. Adler was appointed by the Sue-Ann Levy Accredited with UNHRC in Geneva, Raza bridges the gap between Canadian Government to the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Sue-Ann Levy is an award winning investigative reporter and East and West, promoting cultural and religious diversity. National Security to review the Anti-Terrorism Act and assess its Readers Choice news writer. She advocates for the poor, the Dr. Gad Saad impact upon society. homeless, the vulnerable, and the elderly. Sue-Ann's first book, Dr. Gad Saad’s Psychology Today blog (Homo Consumericus) and Yusuf Celik Underdog: Confessions of a Right-Wing, Gay Jewish Muckraker, was YouTube channel (THE SAAD TRUTH) have garnered over 4.5 Yusuf Celik, at 14 years old, ended his religious instruction in released in 2016. million and 7.7 million total views respectively. In addition to his Turkey due to a conflict between his sexuality and the imam’s Clare Lopez scientific work, Dr. Saad often writes and speaks about topics as speeches. Now an openly gay Muslim, Celik has a Masters in Clare Lopez, consultant, intelligence analyst, and researcher for a varied as postmodernism, radical feminism, cultural and moral International Relations focused on Conflict Analysis and variety of defense firms, was a career operations officer with the relativism, political correctness, the thought police, and Islam. Conflict Resolution. Central Intelligence Agency, a professor at the Centre for Dr. Bill Warner Anni Cyrus Counterintelligence and Security Studies, and a member of the Anni Cyrus is a survivor of forced child marriage, imprisonment, Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security. Bill Warner, Ph.D. is a highly respected expert on political Islam, rape, torture, beatings, and whippings in her native Iran. Now ex- Lopez has co-authored several books including The Tiger Team’s ie. that part of Islamic doctrine which concerns the non-Muslim. Muslim, Cyrus is an American citizen who challenges the media “The Secure Freedom Strategy: A Plan for Victory Over the He uses his training in scientific theory and mathematics to bias and political correctness which mask the threat of Islam. Global Jihad Movement" and “See No Shariah: ‘Countering organize Islamic doctrine in a manner that can be easily Violent Extremism’ and the Disarming of America’s First Line of understood by non-Muslims. Benjamin Dichter Defense” with Frank Gaffney, CSP President. Benjamin Dichter, chairman and co-founder of LGBTory, works for Deborah Weiss David Nitkin rights and freedoms and to raise awareness of the plight of LGBT Deborah Weiss, attorney, author, and public speaker specializing communities in Islamic countries. Through LGBTory, he has built David is an internationally-known ethicist and teacher. As a in free speech and terrorism-related issues, is a survivor of the alliances across Canada and the United States through groups like corporate responsibility professional, and president of EthicScan 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City and an expert in the the Log Cabin Republicans. Canada, he has served many public and private sector clients. He “Defamation of Religions” UN resolutions, the Organization of serves in community leadership roles for Canadians for the Rule Islamic Cooperation, and CAIR. Tarek Fatah of Law, the Muslim-Jewish Dialogue, IsraelAA.ca (the Israel Tarek Fatah, award-winning author, columnist, and television talk Activist Alliance of Canada), Canadian Friends of Tazpit, and Madeline Weld show host, deals with contemporary issues of Islam, Islamism, and StopSponsoringHatred.com. Madeline Weld is president of Population Institute Canada, a the challenges facing Muslims worldwide. Following 9/11, Fatah non-profit organization that promotes awareness of the impact of Thomas Quiggin founded the Muslim Canadian Congress that was instrumental in human population growth on society and the environment. She Thomas Quiggin, (M.A, C.D.) is a court qualified expert on defeating Islamists who wanted to introduce Sharia Law in the serves on the board of Canadian Humanist Publications (CHP), terrorism and “the reliability of intelligence as evidence”. His 25 Canadian judicial system as parallel family law courts. is a co-editor of Humanist Perspectives, and is a founding member plus years of practical intelligence experience include: the Royal of C3RF. Anthony Furey Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations Protection Force in Anthony Furey is a national columnist for Canada’s Sun Yugoslavia, the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former newspaper chain and has written for TIME, NY Daily News, and Yugoslavia (The Hague), and the Privy Council Office of Canada. • Sample comments/questions to evoke discussion: • Talk to others. The majority of the public is ill- “May I share with you who coined the term informed about M-103. Many of us have personal ‘Islamphobia’?” What does it mean for free speech credibility among our workmates, book clubs, (blasphemy laws) in the 40 countries where it is law? activity groups, houses of worship and friends. Find Why do you think Islamophobia is the same as anti- opportunities to download and offer them the C3RF Semitism? Why are so many secular, progressive and pamphlet “What is M-103?”. Share your concerns Public Engagement moderate Muslims terrified by the thought that Sharia with them, ensuring that they understand the sort law would be implemented here in Canada? Why do and long term losses to Canadians rights and There are many approaches you can use to engage in public you think Muslims are at risk of hates crimes – they freedoms if limits to our rights to express ourselves advocacy to protect free speech in Canada that reject are three times more numerous than Jews, yet suffer in any form is furthered through motions, petitions Islamophobia, hate speech, or intolerance from the extreme one third the number of hate crimes? Is it true that the and legislation. right or left. Here are only a few suggestions. Please feel free most reported and verified hate crimes are against • Write letters to the press; call in to radio shows.