I Was There

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Dear Friend,

In later 2007, at the last National Review magazine board meeting he oversaw, Bill Buckley called on the editors of the magazine and the leaders of the National Review Institute -- the non-profit sister organization he founded in 1991 -- to make a concerted effort, through consequential means, to fight Muslim terrorism and what Bill so rightly termed "Islamofascism."

I was there. And I can assure you: Bill was nothing less than deadly serious.

As are our enemies. Deadly serious. Deadly. As events in Belgium this week proved, sadly, yet again.

So let me ask: Will you help us in this critical fight against the Islamofascist threat?

The NR Institute immediately embraced the Buckley-mandated mission to stand athwart radicalism, yelling stop, and has now expanded its response by creating The Center for the Defense of Western Civilization.

The Center will connect leading conservative intellectuals with loyal followers and supporters from across the nation, all with the sole aim of promoting and protecting a free society and defeating its determined foes. Its work primarily focuses on NRI senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Andrew C. McCarthy, two of America's most honest, impassioned, and thoughtful critics of the determined threat that radical Islam poses to the West and to western culture.

NRI Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson is perhaps best known for his 2001 book, Carnage and Culture. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism.

NRI Senior Fellow Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The National Review contributing editor is the author of How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda, Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, The Grand Jihad, and other books.

Bill Buckley founded National Review in 1955 in large part to provide a locus of intelligent opposition to communism, which he called "the century's most blatant force of satanic utopianism." While the Soviet threat resides in history's dustbin, helped put there by NR, the prescient Buckley legacy of articulating a strong and forceful defense of America and Western civilization against other foes, whether it be a threat from radical Islam or from multiculturalism, or some other germinating threat, continues, with a special determination and focus, through NRI's Center for the Defense of Western Civilization.

We are seeking to raise at least $35,000 over the last days in March to support the efforts of the Center, which include bringing Andy, Victor, and other NRI fellows and conservative allies to speak to groups across the nation about the threat Islamofacism poses, and the shortfalls of American officials in effectively combatting this threat.

Please join with us -- and with the late Bill Buckley -- and support the Center with a generous tax-deductible contribution. Donate here. If you are an admirer of Andy or Victor, know that your donation will be going to underwrite their efforts, and to bring their wisdom to countless more people who need to be informed and inspired.

Bill Buckley was right. We cannot sit by. We cannot pause. We must be relentless, because so very much is at stake. Join us in taking up his challenge to wage the relentless battle to defend our society, and our culture, from its determined foes. Please help support the National Review Institute's Center for the Defense of Western Civilization.

Best,

Jack Fowler
Publisher
National Review
Trustee, National Review Institute

P.S.: It's likely your receive or know of Hillsdale College's monthly newsletter, Imprimis. The latest issue includes the text of a speech ("Islam -- Facts or Dreams?") Andy McCarthy gave at Hillsdale in late February. It's just one of the many ways this important NRI fellow sounds the call for defending our civilization, and realizing the real threat "Islamic supremacism," as Andy succinctly puts it, poses. You can read the speech transcript here.

The National Review Institute was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1991, some 36 years after he founded National Review magazine. The Institute is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), charitable organization, established to complement its sister organization, National Review, by engaging in policy development, public education, and advocacy to advance the conservative principles Buckley championed.

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