We believe that speaking about freedom and liberty is both the right and responsibility of every human being.  We believe that every human being has the inalienable and universal human rights of equality and liberty.

Not everyone has the same view – we need to challenge those who state that we should be silent on freedom, on liberty, and on equality.

Christian Science Monitor publishes commentary by Chris Seiple:
— “10 terms not to use with Muslims”
— says terms like “Religious Freedom,” “Tolerance,” “Freedom,” among others “not to [be] used”
— says freedom “is best understood in a conversation with the local context and, in particular, with the Muslims who live there”
— says “American foreign policy is only worried about the freedom of Protestant evangelicals to proselytize and convert, disrupting the local culture and indigenous Christians”
— “Chris Seiple is the president of the Institute for Global Engagement, a “think tank with legs” that promotes sustainable environments for religious freedom worldwide.”
— Plans June 17 event at Georgetown University “co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University”

Last April 2008 – it was also learned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Civil Rights and Civil Liberties branch had drafted a memorandum stating that we should not be talking about “liberty.”  The DHS January 2008 DHS terror lexicon memorandum states that “[t]he struggle is for progress… The experts we consulted debated the word ‘liberty,’ but rejected it because many around the world would discount the term as a buzzword for American hegemony” (p. 7, paragraph 5).