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Bat Ye’or
Bat Ye’or is a world authority on the history of non-Muslims under Islam and has written many articles and four major works on the subject. Her latest study, the widely acclaimed Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005) concerns the gradual political and cultural transformation of Europe into a Euro-Arab hybrid. |
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Baroness Caroline Cox
Baroness Cox is a member of the British House of Lords and an advocate for many humanitarian causes and issues concerning disability. She is Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust) and a Trustee of MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International). She is co-author, with Dr. John Marks, of The West, Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy? (Civitas, 2005) |
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Massimo de Leonardis
Massimo de Leonardis Ph.D., is Professor of History of International Relations and Institutions and of International Politics at the Catholic University of Milan. He also teaches Contemporary History at the European University of Rome. He is author of several books on international relations between Italy and the United States.
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Roberto de Mattei
Roberto de Mattei Ph.D., is the Dean of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at the European University of Rome. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.) of which he has been Vice-President since 2004. He was special advisor to the Berlusconi Government (2002-2006) and is President of the Lepanto Foundation based in Rome and Washington. |
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Giorgio Israel
Giorgio Israel Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He is author of 20 books and 200 papers and essays in the fields of the history of science, the history of antisemitism and of racial policy in Italy during fascism. His most recent book concerns the crisis of values of Western civilization: Liberarsi dei demoni. Odio di sac, scientismo e relativismo (Marietti). |
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Johannes Jansen
Johannes J.G. Jansen Ph.D., holds the Houtsma Chair for Contemporary Islamic Thought in the Department of Arabic, Persian and Turkish at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. He has published numerous books and articles about Muslim radicalism including The Neglected Duty: the Creed of Sadat’s Assassins and The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentlism. |
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Philippe Karsenty
Philippe Karsenty is a French journalist and media critic. After a brief foray into French politics in 2002, he founded Media-Ratings, the first ever French media rating agency. Media-Ratings has paid particular attention to the failure of the French media to
document the rise of militant Islam in France. |
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David Littman
David Littman is a British historian and human rights activist based in Switzerland. He is a representative at the United Nations in Geneva for the Association for World Education and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. During his work at the U.N., he has delivered or drafted over 300 oral and written NGO statements to the Council on Human Rights and the Sub-Council onf Human Rights. |
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Alfredo Mantovano
Alfredo Mantovano is a member of the Italian Senate. He was Undersecretary at the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Berlusconi Government (2002-2006). |
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Oscar Elía Mañú
Oscar Elía Mañú Ph.D., is an analyst in Political Thought at Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos- GEES (Strategic Studies Group) in Madrid. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy (University of Navarra) and a postgraduate degree in Peace, Security and Defense Studies.
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Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray is a bestselling writer and broadcaster based in London. He is
Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, based in Westminster - the only think-tank in Britain to focus exclusively on Islamic extremism within the UK.
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Emanuele Ottolenghi
Emanuele Ottolenghi Ph.D., is the executive director of the Transatlantic Institute, based in Belgium. He is a frequent commentator on Israeli domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Europe’s Middle East policy. |
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Angelo Maria Petroni
Angelo Maria Petroni Ph.D., is Professor of Epistemology at the University of Bologna, and General Secretary of the Aspen Institute Italy. He is the former director of the High School of Public Administration and an advisor to Minister Giulio Tremonti during the Berlusconi Government (2002-2006). |
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Marcello Pera
Pres. Marcello Pera is currently a member of the Italian Senate and was formerly its President (2001-2006). He is currently Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa. He is author of many books, some written in partnership with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI. |
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Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. She writes a regular column in both the Daily Mail and the London Jewish Chronicle and appears as a panellist on BBC Radio Four’s The Moral Maze. In May, 2006 she published Londonistan (Encounter) an analysis of the British failure to confront radical Islam. |
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Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes, Ph.D., is an academic, journalist and Director of the Middle East Forum whose writings on Islam, Europe and the threat to the West have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. His website, www.danielpipes.org, is the single most accessed internet source of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. |
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Florentino Portero
Florentino Portero Ph.D., is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid. He is the author of many books and articles on Spanish foreign policy and international relations and a commentator on international policy in the Spanish journals La Razón, Libertad Digital, Expansion, and at the television station Telemadrid. |
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Flemming Rose
Flemming Rose is a Danish journalist, author and the cultural editor of the Danish daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. In this position he was responsible for the August 2005 publication of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. |
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Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad (Regnery, 2006) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery, 2005).
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Rev. Hans J. Stückelberger
Rev. Hans J. Stüceklberger is founder and international president of Christian Solidaritiy International (CSI), based in Binz/Zurich, Switzerland with affiliates in the USA, Italy and eight other countries. He is also president of Zukunft CH, whose goal is the re-establishment of European identity. |
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Rafael L. Bardají
Rafael L. Bardají is the International Policy Director of the Spanish policy center FAES
(Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies) and the former National Policy Advisor to President Jose Maria Aznar. In 1986 he founded the Strategic Studies Group (GEES) - of which he was director until May 1996, carrying out consultancy tasks for the Atlantic Alliance and Spanish Military Headquarters. |
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Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer is an American poet, literary critic and author who resides in Oslo, Norway. He is the author, most recently, of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within ( Random House, 2006) |
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Avi Davis
Avi Davis is an atttorney , journalist and documentarian
who writes and lectures about Israel, the Middle East
and European affairs. His writing has been published widely
around the world. He is the senior fellow of the American
Freedom Alliance and the co-ordinator of the Collapse
of Europe conference. |
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John Marks
Professor John Marks is a British nuclear physicist, British educator and author. He has written extensively on British education and has co-authored, with Caroline Cox, This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century, (Monarch, 2006) and The West, Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy? (Civitas, 2006).
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Salvatore Rebecchini
Salvatore Rebecchini is an Italian banker and businessman. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the board of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Spa, a large financial institution owned by the Italian Treasury. He is currently Chairman of the F2i S.g.r. (Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture, Società di gestione del risparmio), a private equity fund, specializing in infrastructure investment. |
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Giuseppe Valditara
Giuseppe Valditara Ph.D., is a member of the Italian Senate. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the European University of Rome and Professor of Roman Law at the University of Turin. |
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