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Eighty UCSB Professors Join National Campaign to Silence Opponents of Islamic Jihad
Tonight I'm speaking at the University of California Santa Barbara. The principle topic of my speech is a defense of the Jews of the Middle East against the destruction that is being planned for them by the genocidal Islam armies of Hizbollah, Hamas and Iran. In advance of my speech we purchased an a in the Daily Nexus, about the campus supporters of this jihad, the Muslim Students Association, a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood which has spawned both al-Qaeda and Hamas, and whose doctrines of a Islamic seizure of state power and the institution of a totalitarian regime inspired the Ayatollah Khomeni and his acolyte Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The mere appearance of ad was enough to set the campus totalitarians aroar. Letters of protest, accusations that I had attacked all Muslims, descended upon the liberal editors of the Nexus and 80 members of the UCSB faculty signed a petittion urging the Nexus not to print any more "inflammatory ads." Of course the Nakba celebrations the Muslim Students Association have organized, which call for the destruction of the Jewish state and which coincide with the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth were not deemed inflammatory by these progressive academics.
Tonight UCSB professor David Flacks, whose parents belonged to the same Communist controlled teachers union as mine, and who has devoted his life to totalitarian causes, will be leading a demonstration against my appearance, and the university will assign many security guards to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the MSA will wear green -- the color of the Hamas terrorists -- and call it the "color of peace."
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Why Johnny Can't Read
John K. Wilson is the leftist editor of Illinois Academe, which is a publication of the Illinois branch of the American Association of University Professors. His main purpose in life seems to be misrepresenting statements I have made or inventing statements I haven't made in order to attack me. He's written an entire book doing just this. His current blog is called "Horowitz is Against Free Speech." In it he claims I am "against free speech" because I demanded the University of Wisconsin punish the Muslim Students Association -- a hate group associated with the Muslim Brotherhood -- for posting an anti-Semitic cartoon about me. No I didn't.
The lawyer's letter he quotes is obviously a request for information not a demand for punishment. Actually Wilson knows this and quotes me accurately saying, "They [the MSA] has the right to say anything they want, however reprehensible the sentiment. However, the university is not obligated to provide them with the bulletin board space in the Student Union on which they displayed their bigotry or to underwrite the expense to print their flyers and spread their hatred around the campus." But Professor Wilson is undaunted. He simply ignores what I said and invents something for me to say that he can attack. Thus he defends the right of the MSA to spread their hatred as though I said they didn't have that right. What I said was the university wasn't obligated to underwrite it. A typical leftist, Wilson supports the right of fascists to spread anti-Semitic bigotry but doesn't have enough respect for the speech rights of conservatives to report what they say accurately.
I sent John the following email (I'll let you know if he responds):
You're making things up again. My lawyer's letter was a request for information, not a demand for suppression. Please correct this.
Postscript: Today Wilson put up an "answer" which literate people can see is no answer at all. Meanwhile, I have corrected the factual error (he's not a professor) in my original blog, and allowing him to have the last word on whether he is or is not a flak for the AAUP. In other words, I'm willing to correct errors. I guess that's because I'm not a progressive.
Second postscript (responding to Wilson's latest post): The lawyer's letter was a request for information. If the university has regulations (e.g., the tearing down of flyers put up to advertise a speech by the guest of a recognized student group, the obstruction of the speaker, etc.) how would asking the university to enforce those regulations be an attempt to infringe free speech? Your argument presumes that that's what I'm going to ask the university to do; even if that were the case (and you have at present no basis for presuming that it is) your quarrel would still be with the university not with me. And probably with current interpretations of the Constitution. After all this is a state institution and presumably they have not put regulations in place that violate the Constitution. If regulations against destroying other people's property (flyers) and obstructing speakers in a university setting are unconstitutional, please enlighten me. Meanwhile, isn't it bad form to be obsessed with the perceived mote in another's eye while ignoring the beam in your own?
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Morons attack new book
Ben Johnson and I have written a new book about the Democrats' five year betrayal of the war in Iraq and our men and women on the field of battle. Naturally, this is too much for leftists to handle so they have fallen into their natural mode of hysterical name-calling. Any notorious figure will do but the names Joseph Goebbels and Joe McCarthy come so readily to the leftist mind (or what passes for a mind) that others are merely superfluous. Johnson and I were very careful to distinguish legitimate criticism of the war from malicious sabotage of the war, but this is all over the heads of our leftist critics.
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Islamo-fascists at Dartmouth
Here is an email I received from the student at Dartmouth who organized our Islamo-Fascism Awareness event:
The Horowitz Freedom Center created the Terrorism Awareness Project last year with the goal of breaking through the cultural Marxism disguised as political correctness that infects American institutions of higher learning in order to create an awareness among college students of the dangerous theocratic and oppressive ideology of Islamic supremacy and Islamic jihad. There is obviously more work to be done to rid the world of this pervasive cancer, which is the most fundamental issue and the most dangerous enemy my generation will continue to face.
As a current college student, I look to my grandparents who were engaged in a paramount struggle against the forces of fascism; my parents, communism; and now my generation, radical Islam. However, I can honestly say that the goals of the Terrorism Awareness Project have been successful thus far.
Students all across America are stepping outside of the confines of political correctness and actually raising awareness of the extent of the threat of Islamo-Fascism. In the first two Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks, something has arisen in which there was none of before: an actual discussion of this dangerous ideology. This is an important first step, for how can we win the "War on Terror" if we are prevented from even having a discussion of the actual ideology that is responsible for producing Islamic terrorism? The answer is that we obviously can not, but fortunately for everyone the Horowitz Freedom Center has provided incredible and inspiring speakers and programs to aid college students all across America in this vital first step to defeating the oppressive forces of radical islam.
Tonight, Wednesday, April 9, we at Dartmouth College were truly blessed to have Mrs. Nonie Darwish come and share with us her important message about the extent of radicalism and oppression in the Middle East and around the world carried out in the name of Islam. With inspiring grace and clarity, Mrs. Darwish shared her own experiences under the oppression of radical Islam as well as that of all who unfortunately have to live their lives under the cloud of this dangerous ideology. She forcefully made it clear that the threat of radical Islam is something that no one, non-Muslims as well as Muslims, is immune to.
Speaking to a crowd of over 100 students, her message was received respectfully, overall. There were, however, a few exceptions, including one member of Dartmouth's al-Nur Muslim student group who screamed "Bullsh**!" when Mrs. Darwish was in the middle of speaking about the "Palestinian"-Israeli crisis and how the suffering of the "Palestinian" people is largely due in fact to policies of Arab nations and not "Israeli oppression."
This rude interjection came from the same student who has sent several ridiculous emails to myself and others involved in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week such as this eloquent diatribe: "...i dont get my views on 'true islam' from someone who converted to christianity. Would you get your views on true christianity from a christian who converted to Islam? seriously? and I am sick and tired of you bringing Islam bashing speakers to campus. If you dont like my religious beliefs, fine, but dont bring people whos lifes work is to distort and insult my faith and brew hatred toward those who follow my faith. Your organization is the reason i feel unwelcome by this campus, none other, just yours."
Personally, I feel unwelcome by basically the entire academic community at my school that actively tries to silence my 1st Amendment right to discuss the issue of radical Islam, for it is not in line with the politically correct culture academia champions. Nonetheless, the majority of the students in attendance at tonight's event did not share this student's views on the speech of "Islam bashing" Nonie Darwish, for Mrs. Darwish received an enthusiastic standing ovation from the audience and numerous students made a point to personally thank Mrs. Darwish for blessing us with her message.
I, personally, would like to thank the Horowitz Freedom Center for providing myself and the students of Dartmouth College with this opportunity. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to be selected to host such incredible speakers such as Mrs. Darwish tonight and Robert Spencer in November. With two months until my college graduation, I find myself looking back at my college career, and I can honestly say that I feel my greatest experiences have come from being involved in both Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks. I have been blessed to have been at the front lines of the fight to be able to freely discuss the threat of radical Islam and raise awareness of the culture of death and oppression that come as a result of this threat. Without the efforts of the Horowitz Freedom Center, none of this would have been possible. Best, Harrison Sonntag Dartmouth '08
Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
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Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
Click here to read David Horowitz Debates with the Left
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