LEGATUS
The San Francisco Chapter
invites you to an evening with
Serge Trifkovic
"Islam and the future of Western Civilization"
Tuesday, February 27th
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Vallombrosa Center
250 Oak Grove Avenue in Menlo Park (next to Nativity Church)
Mass followed by Program & Cocktails
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Serge Trifkovic is the Foreign Affairs Editor of the monthly magazine
Chronicles, and is Director of the Rockford Institute's Center for
International Affairs. In 2002, he gained national prominence with the
publication of his best-selling book, The Sword of the Prophet: Islam:
History, Theology, Impact on the World. The sequel, Defeating Jihad, was
published in April 2006. He has authored, contributed chapters to, or edited
several other books on international affairs, modern European history and
the Middle East.
Trifkovic maintains a continuous scholarly and journalistic publication
record and his work has been widely translated in continental Europe. His
articles have been published by The Times of London, US News & World Report
and dozens of other periodicals. He has given over 300 interviews on foreign
affairs over the past decade and has appeared on BBC World Service, MSNBC,
CBC, CNN, SkyNews, etc. Over the past year he has addressed audiences in
Britain, Israel, Serbia, Canada, and all over the United States.
Trifkovic started his journalistic career as a broadcaster and
producer with the BBC World Service in London (1980-86). After a brief stint
with the Voice of America he spent two years in his native Belgrade as a
correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and a stringer for The Washington
Times. In 1991-92 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford. In the 1990s his academic appointments included a semester
teaching international studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
An Orthodox Christian, Trifkovic is a fervent believer in the necessity
of Christian unity in defense of our common civilizational legacy. As he
wrote recently, the schism that is almost a millenium old involves many
doctrinal and liturgical differences that cannot be eliminated by a hasty
compromise, but mutual help among Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant
traditionalists is both possible and desirable: "Taken separately, they are
powerless to fight the modernizing, relativizing cancer. They need to hang
together, in these trying times, or else they will most assuredly hang
separately."
Please respond as soon as possible to Paul Blewett by phone at (661)
822-8887, or by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or by fax at (661) 825-8227.
