Conference with Bruce Bawer: Pour la version française cliquez [ici]

At the invitation of Point de Bascule and the Free Thinking Film Society, Dr. Bruce Bawer will be speaking at major venues in Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa.

Bawer is a renowned essayist and author bestselling books (Stealing Jesus, While Europe Slept and Surrender) Based in Norway, he is known internationally for his straightforward criticism of multiculturalism and his deeply informed warnings about the threat of Islamic radicalism to Western security, culture and identity. A gay activist who became disillusioned by what he saw as the increasing influence of America’s religious right, Dr Bawer left his US homeland in 1998, only to be shocked by alarming trends he discovered on arriving in once-tolerant Europe. He witnessed the Old World’s post-Enlightenment traditions of tolerance and openness under siege: Islamic fundamentalism was on the march, and time-honoured rights were failing along with the cultural confidence and self-respect of Europe’s indigenous populations.

The conference will address:

Hear Bruce Bawer explain:

– Why multiculturalism contributes to the erosion of basic rights such as freedom of expression;

– How and why multiculturalism creates intercultural tensions;

– Why policies to accommodate encourage community confinement, Islamic radicalism and violence; and

– Why Muslim immigration is increasingly perceived as a time bomb.

From Bawer’s Surrender:

Our civilization is built on two foundations. One of them is awareness of the individual human being’s absolute value independent of race, religion, and social background. The other is the freedom to think and express one’s thoughts. If freedom is to have any meaning at all, it must mean the freedom to say what others don’t like to hear… We can’t have a halfway freedom of expression that doesn’t apply to Islam

The New York Times Book Review, on Surrender:

… Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply ­terrifying.

Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born former Dutch parliamentarian and terror-target, on Surrender:

It should be studied by all who wish to understand the forces at work in the West that make an Islamic ‘House of Peace’ a brewing nightmare.

Bruce Bawer will be speaking in:

– Ottawa,September 14, 2009, 7:00 pm, at the National Archives/Library of Canada,
   395 Wellington Street, Ottawa Folklore Centre, 1111 Bank Street & Compact Music, 190 Bank Street

– Montréal, September 16,2009, 7:00 pm, at Omni Hotel  Salle Pierre-de-Coubertin
   1050 Sherbrooke west, Montréal (corner of Peel)

– Québec City, September 17, 2009, 7:00 pm, at the Lowes Le Concorde
    1225 Cours du General-de-Montcalm

Registration:

Admission fees (Montreal and Quebec): $15

The author will be available for book signing at the end of the conference

For more information or reservations concerning the Montreal and Quebec City appearances please contact us:

– By email at: ConferenceBBawer@pointdebasculecanada.ca