Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) will be protesting Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s conference in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, Illinois on July 19.    As referenced on our blog, the Islamic supremacist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) has moved its public conference to the Oak Lawn, Illinois Hilton Hotel on Sunday, July 19.  HTA’s conference is scheduled to run from 11 AM to 5 PM Central Time at the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom 9333 South Cicero Avenue, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 (View Larger Map).

If you can join us or support us, please contact us at realpublic@earthlink.net before July 18.

Islamic Supremacist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir's logo for its public conference on July 19 in Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel in Chicago, IL suburb

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s Jeffrey Imm will also be staying at the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel on Saturday night July 18, and will have a shirt with the message “Hizb ut-Tahrir is Against Freedom.” On Sunday, July 19, R.E.A.L. invites those concerned about HTA’s anti-democracy, anti-freedom, and anti-equality message that calls for the replacement of governments with an Islamic supremacist caliphate, to join us in protest outside the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel.

Our plans are to protest across the street from the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel on the public sidewalks of West 94th Street and South Cicero Avenue.  We expect to move between that corner and slightly down the block, which is across the street from the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel.

In the morning, we plan to be directly across the street from the entrance to the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel on the sidewalk near the Charter One Bank (closed on Sunday) on West 94th Street in the morning from about 9 to 11 AM to stand defiant to those HTA supporters driving to the conference (appx. at 4755-4761 West 94th Street area.)  After the 11 AM start of the HTA conference, we will move to the corner of West 94th Street and South Cicero Avenue to address more of the traffic in the area.   The corner of West 94th Street and South Cicero Avenue is at the front of the Charter One Bank public sidewalk area.  It’s address is 9401 S. Cicero Avenue, Oak Lawn, IL 60453; we also plan to be on the side of bank area public sidewalk as well.

We have discussed our specific protest plans with the Oak Lawn Police Department and they have no problem with the exercise of our First Amendment rights to protest against Hizb ut-Tahrir’s conference across the street from the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel.   We have also advised the Oak Lawn Police Department of the nature and ideology of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, in the event there are any confrontations.  We have also advised the Oak Lawn Police Department of our plans to use R.E.A.L.’s small amplified sound system, and they have no problem with that.

We urge those in the Chicago area, and those with the means to travel to Chicago for the day (as Oak Lawn is a 10 minute shuttle ride from Chicago’s Midway Airport), to join us on July 19 so that this first major public event by the Islamic supremacist Hizb ut-Tahrir is publicly opposed by those of who believe in democracy and who are Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

As the Islamic supremacist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization is the ideological equivalent of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, we don’t believe that Americans should be publicly silent about this conference by an Islamic supremacist organization opposed to freedom, democracy, equality, and liberty.

Our forefathers and foremothers have made great sacrifices for the Democracy, Equality, and Liberty that we enjoy today.  Many have died for such human rights and freedoms.  When the international Islamic supremacist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization publicly announces its plans to attack democracy and humanity’s universal human rights, surely we can make the sacrifice to send a message to them that says NO - that they will have to get past us first - and that there is a consensus that will remain unreservedly and fearlessly Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

We Fear No Evil.

www.realcourage.org/2009/07/july-19-chicago/