Les américains se mobilisent contre l'islamofascisme

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week III has begun on over 75 campuses across the country and so have the attempts to suppress it. I’m going to speak on several campuses. Other speakers who’ll be on campus for the Freedom Center these next three weeks include Dick Morris, Daniel Pipes, author and scholar Dr. Andrew Bostom, former Muslim Nonie Darwish, and Middle East reporter Deborah Weiss.

As in the two Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks that preceded this one, our effort focuses on the global threat posed by the radical Islamic extremism that fuels the international jihad. But over the past year, as we have attempted to make students aware of the goals of Islamo Fascism, we have become more aware of the “stealth” jihad taking place in our own country under the protection of our constitutional freedoms and civil liberties. This movement is especially strong on our nation’s campuses, therefore, we have made the target of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week III: Stop the Jihad on Campus in general and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) in particular.

Hiding under the cover of the campus romance with “multiculturalism,” the MSA falsely presents itself as a religious/cultural organization representing all Muslims when in fact it is a hardcore radical political organization representing Muslims who support the jihad against the West and the destruction of the Jewish state. The MSA receives student funding under false pretenses and should be compelled to make its agendas clear or renounce the jihad and terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

Aside from its imposture as a non-political organization, the MSA is also an opponent of free speech and is part of a nation-wide Islamo-fascist campaign to suppress the film Obsession. This campaign is spear-headed by organizations associated with the terrorist party Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and includes the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) in addition to the Muslim Students Association.
Here is a story from the North Carolina Daily Tar Heel about our protest on that campus. The story swallows the jihadist line that we are opposed to the MSA's funding because of its "radical ideas." This is a lie the jihadists have learned to tell from the American left whose strategy is to destroy its opponents by labeling them Islamophobic, racist and McCarthyite. The ideas of the MSA are reprehensible and morally disgusting. But this is a free country and they have a right to say what they want. But lying to student activities boards to get student funds is not a right. Presenting themselves as a religious group when they are political arm of the Islamo-fascist jihad against the West is a form of deception. Allowing them to get away with this endangers the lives and security of moderate Muslims who do not support the jihad, not to speak of the Christians, Jews and Atheists who are infidels and therefore in their path.
-- David Horowitz


Stifling Debate at Eastern Tennessee State



When East Tennessee State University (ETSU) grad student Sean Rife tried to bring author Robert Spencer to campus for Islamo Fascism Week III, he wasn’t looking to start a fight. As the president of ETSU’s Society for Intellectual Diversity (SID), a non-partisan student group that champions free debate and academic freedom, Rife was just looking to stir discussion about a subject, Islamic terrorism, which increasingly has come to dominate Americans’ concerns. But a fight – and a lesson in politically correct bullying – is exactly what he got.

It began when Rife presented his request to the school’s Student Government Association. Like any other student, Rifled filled out the required paperwork, and submitted a funding request to a student government committee. Then, on Monday, he went before the committee to discuss his request – and that’s when the trouble started.

First off, Rife was required by a student representative to defend the request. He pointed out that the idea was not to cause offense but to have a reasoned debate. As the author of several well regarded books on the subject of Islam, moreover, Spencer was more than qualified to lead a discussion under the title “Is Islam a religion of peace?” Rife further noted that his organization’s faculty sponsor, Paul Kamolnick, an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology, had written a letter to Taneem Aziz, the leader of an Islamic community center in neighboring Johnson City, Tennessee, inviting him to attend Spencer’s talk and present his own views. So far from ostracizing Muslims, the idea was to include them in the discussion.

None of this made a difference to the student government committee. Rife’s request to host Spencer was officially rejected. But he was taken a back at the reason for the rejection: “due to the controversial issues that [David] Horowitz’s society condones is degrading Muslims.” Spencer’s name was hardly even mentioned, nor was there any evidence given of Horowitz allegedly anti-Muslim views.

Rife’s knows politics were at play. While East Tennessee is not ruled by the sort of far left political culture that characterizes schools like UC Berkeley, it does share something in common with such bastions of political correctness: the speakers invited to the school are almost without exception from the political Left. In the past several years, the school has hosted such far-Left activists as actors Felix Justice and Danny Glover, the latter an outspoken supporter of Cuba’s dictatorial regime; radical education activist Jonathan Kozol; and black-power filmmaker Spike Lee. Just last week, the school hosted self-described “sex and relationship educators” Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot, who delivered an instructional lecture titled “I Heart Female Orgasm.”

Rife doesn’t want East Tennessee students to lose the opportunity to hear about the dangers of Islamo Fascism. He intends to bypass the student government and file a formal appeal with the administration to have Robert Spencer’s speech approved. But he knows the odds he faces. “As long as I’ve been here there has been no major discussion related to Islamic terrorism,” he says. If the student government’s censors have their way, that won’t change anytime soon.





Stop the Jihad on Campus Controversy at UC Santa Barbara

The following article, presented here in condensed form, appeared in UC Santa Barbara’s Daily Nexus school paper on October 14.

Horowitz Ad Denounces Jihad
UC Santa Barbara; Daily Nexus
By Benjamin Gottlieb/Staff Writer

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has placed another ad linking the Muslim Student Association to terrorist networks in today’s issue of the Daily Nexus.

Appearing on page three, the advertisement - “Stop the Jihad On College Campuses” - claims the Muslim Student Association recruits and supports speakers who “are calling for the execution of gays, the killing of Jews and support the terrorist jihad against America.” The ad appears as part of an effort to publicize the third “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” sponsored by the Freedom Center.

In a special meeting called to preempt the advertisement, the MSA executive board collectively agreed the ad’s contents were unfounded and not representative of the MSA at UCSB.

MSA Graduate Student Representative Elliott Bazzano called the advertisement an example of inflammatory speech that unfairly attacks UCSB’s Muslim student population….

David Horowitz - an occasional Fox News analyst and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center - has placed numerous ads in university newspapers across the nation condemning the MSA as an “arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

According to Horowitz, angry responses and allegations targeting his organization’s advertisements are a regular occurrence. He alleged that editors at other college papers were intimidated by their surrounding communities and local MSA chapters, and refused the ads, which Horowitz called a violation of the first amendment.

“I am glad the Daily Nexus has chosen to run this ad because we really don’t have a free press in this country anymore,” Horowitz said. “Several college papers have chosen not to run it, including the Daily Collegian at Penn State and many others. The censorship of America’s college newspapers is a major issue of our time.”

….Horowitz said the information included in his advertisement is backed by concrete research, including video documentation, recorded statements and investigative projects headed by himself and his colleagues.

Following a series of ads placed last April, the Daily Nexus received a stream of letters both defending and condemning the MSA and Horowitz. Additionally, over 80 UCSB faculty and staff members signed a petition, which appeared in the paper, urging the Daily Nexus to refrain from publishing “inflammatory” ads.

Horowitz cited his confrontation with MSA members at an on-campus lecture last year as the motive behind today’s advertisement.

“When I came to UCSB, 50 members of MSA and their president confronted me. I could not get them to condemn the genocidal agendas of Hamas and Hezbollah,” Horowitz said. “I consider that a serious issue. There are 100 MSAs that claim to be religious but are in fact political. This is an education campaign. It’s just trying to make people aware that there is a battle going around our nation.”

The MSA executive board also noted the negative impact of last year’s advertisements, particularly racist sentiment directed toward Muslims on campus. Husayn Hasan, MSA treasurer and a third-year political science and business economics major, said he was disappointed by the Daily Nexus’ decision to place the advertisement.

“I feel a little upset that the Nexus is printing this ad,” Hasan said. “At the same time, I recognize the power of free speech in this country and it is up to us to educate people in our country about these very issues.”

In a collective effort to counteract potential backlash, the MSA will hold a panel series addressing the issues of racism and the Horowitz advertisement. Hasan said students who wish to talk about the advertisement are invited to attend the MSA’s weekly meetings, Mondays at 6 p.m. at the Middle Eastern Student Resource Center in the Student Resource Building.



A Tale of Two Advertisements

(Click here for a larger view of the advertisements)

The David Horowitz Freedom Center bought an advertisement (above left) in the UNW Post, school newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to publicize Robert Spencer’s speech there on October 16 as part of Islamo Fascism Awareness Week III. On October 13 the ad appeared with an answering ad (above right) on the opposite page of the school there was a full page ad which was taken out by Muslim Students Association (MSA).

Students helping to put on Spencer’s speech at UWM claim that the Muslim Students Association was offered an advance look at the Freedom Center ad and that it was allowed to print its own response free of charge. (The words above the Freedom Center read "PAID ADVERTISEMENT". Above MSA's ad, they read "ADVERTISEMENT".)

In his letter to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee demanding an apology for the content of the MSA’s defamatory ad, Robert Spencer noted:

“The UWM Post required, as a precondition to running our ad for our Stop the Jihad On Campus effort, that the David Horowitz Freedom Center to provide documentation for every assertion made in it. Clearly the Post didn’t hold the MSA to the same standard, as it allowed the MSA to publish vile and empty invective -- calling me a “right wing hate monger” and making numerous false claims, such as that our Stop the Jihad On Campus week is an attempt by “right wing extremists to influence U.S. elections.

· The MSA attacks me for suggesting that the world should resist Ahmadinejad. Apparently the MSA believes that free people should do nothing to resist the genocidal ambitions of a man who said that “accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.”

· The MSA equates me the mass-murderer Osama bin Laden, who is responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people on September 11, 2001 – simply because I oppose bin Laden and am trying to make sure he doesn’t succeed again in bringing his monstrous plans to fruition. Apparently here again the MSA would prefer, since it does nothing to oppose the ideology that bin Laden propagates, that free people should remain mute and passive before this threat as well.

· The MSA tries to smear me as a racist, while in reality, opposition to the genocidal and totalitarian ideology represented by the likes of bin Laden and Ahmadinejad is not a racial issue, as people of all races adhere to that ideology, and people of all races should oppose it.

· The MSA asks if I have information about them that Homeland Security and the FBI don’t have. No, I don’t: both agencies have the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum in which the MSA is named as part of the Brotherhood’s “grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house” so that “Allah’s religion reigns supreme over other religions.”

· The MSA claims that Sheikh Khalid Yasin did not call for the execution of gays, and claims the absence of a criminal complaint as evidence. But Yasin’s words were reported by witnesses and are in accord with Islamic law. Is the MSA willing, then, to go on record denying that Islamic law mandates execution for homosexuals, and to ask Yasin to retract his words?

· The MSA tries to hide the genocidal anti-Semitic rhetoric of Abdel Malik-Ali and the UCLA MSA behind a barrage of accusations about Israel and the Palestinians – but none of these accusations will make the calls of “Death to the Jews,” which were widely witnessed, go away.

· The MSA claims that I say that Muslims do not condemn terrorism. This is flatly false. I have written that Muslim groups in America “have condemned terrorism. Again and again.

It is a blot on the UMW Post’s record that they allowed this defamatory ad to be printed, apparently free of charge.”



Central Michigan University Failure to Protect Horowitz Unconstitutional

When it heard that David Horowitz was coming to campus to speak as part of Islamo Fascism Awareness Week III, Central Michigan University officials required Campus Conservatives, the event's organizers, to pay hundreds of dollars to guarantee the safety of Horowitz, who has received death threats and been physically attacked at previous speaking engagements, and of the public attending the speech on radical Islamic terrorism.

"CMU is imposing unconstitutional restrictions on the right of students to freely express themselves and exchange ideas," said Campus Conservatives spokesman Dennis Lennox. "Students should be able to come together to discuss critical issues without having to pay hundreds of dollars to be safe from hooligans."

According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which sent a letter of warning to CMU President Michael Rao, the school’s stance is unconstitutional under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 1992. It also conflicts with past practice, as CMU has routinely provided campus police officers free of charge for security at events.

"It is ... unclear why CMU has decided to charge YAF for security now," FIRE wrote in its letter to Rao. "Perhaps the most likely explanation is that David Horowitz has a reputation as a controversial speaker and often provokes strong reactions from those that disagree with his political views."

"Forcing students to pay for the right to have a discussion on campus gives a veto to hecklers and thugs who was disrupt events in the university community," said FIRE. "These hooligans will be able to turn violent and shut down events because student organizers can't afford to pay for their safety."

Campus Conservatives contacted FIRE for assistance after CMU was unwilling to guarantee public safety at Horowitz's appearance on campus. He is scheduled to deliver a speech entitled "Stop the Jihad on Campus" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Plachta Auditorium.

Campus Conservatives is the CMU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, which was founded in 1960 by the late William F. Buckley Jr. and is the country's oldest, largest and most active conservative youth organization. The YAF National Advisory Board includes Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former U.S. Sen. George Allen.



Islamo Fascism Awareness Week III: A Schedule of Events

American University: October 23rd
Panel featuring Yaron Brook, Daniel Pipes, and Flemming Rose
“Totalitarian Islam and the Threat to Free Speech”
Sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute
Location – Ward One, Auditorium One
Time – 6:00 pm

Arizona State: October 16th
Screening of “Obsession”
Location – TBA
Time – 7:30 pm

Brown University: October 16th
Speaker – David Horowitz
“Helping The Enemy To Win: Support for the Jihad on American
Campuses”
Location – Salomon 101
Time – 7:00 pm

East Tennessee State University: October 29th (tentative)
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Is Islam a Religion of Peace?”
Location – Rogers-Stout Building, Room 118
Time – 7:30 pm

Lehigh University: October 20th
Screening of “Obsession”
Location – TBA
Time – 7:30 pm

Lehigh University: October 23rd
Speaker – David Horowitz
“Helping The Enemy To Win: Support for the Jihad on American
Campuses”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location: Packard Auditorium
Time: 7:30 pm

George Washington University: October 16th
Speaker – Nonie Darwish
Co-Sponsored by Young America’s Foundation
Location – Jack Morton Auditorium, in the School of Media and Public
Affairs
Time – 7:00 pm

Penn State: October 13th
Screening of “Suicide Killers”
Location – 110 Wartik
Time – 7:30 pm

Penn State: October 14th
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – 108 Chalmers
Time – 7:30 pm

Penn State: October 15th
Screening of “Obsession”
Location – 201 Thomas
Time – 7:00

Stonybrook University: October 23rd
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Student Union Ballroom
Time – 5:00 pm

Suny-Binghamton: October 28th
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – TBA
Time - TBA

Tufts University: Date TBA
Speaker – Deborah Weiss
Location – TBA
Time - TBA

UC Berkeley: October 15th
Speaker – Wafa Sultan
"The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam"
Location – 60 Evans
Time – 7:45 pm

UC Berkeley – Boalt Law School: October 16th
Speaker – Daniel Pipes
"The Threat to Israel's Existence – Why It's Back, How to Deal with It"

UC Irvine: October 13th
Panel featuring Yaron Brook and Wafa Sultan
“Islamic Totalitarianism’s Threat to Civilization”
Sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute
Location – HIB (Humanities Instructional Building) 100
Time – 7:00 pm

University of Central Michigan: October 14th
Speaker – David Horowitz
“Helping The Enemy To Win: Support for the Jihad on American Campuses”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Plachta Auditorium
Time – 7:30 pm

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: October 13th
Screening of “Obsession”
Location – 104 Howell
Time – 7:00 pm

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: October 20th
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Gardner Hall, Room 105
Time – 7:00 pm

University of Pennsylvania: October 16th
Speaker – Dick Morris
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Steinberg Deitrich (SHDH) Room 350
Time – 7:30 pm

University of Scranton: October 21st
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Location – Denaples Theater
Time – 7:30 pm

University of South Florida: October 18th
Panel discussion featuring Tom Trento, Khalil Mohammed, and others from the Islamic Center for Peace
“Who’s Really Obsessed?”
Location – Marshall Student Center, Room 2708
Time – 6:00 pm

University of Texas, Arlington: October 21st
Speaker – David Horowitz
“Helping The Enemy To Win: Support for the Jihad on American
Campuses”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Lonestar Theater
Time – 7:00 pm

University of Texas, Austin
Speaker – Jonathan Schanzer
“The Real Threat of Radical Islam & Islamo-Fascism”
Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Waggenor 101
Time – 7:00 pm

University of Virginia: October 15th
Speaker – David Horowitz
“Helping The Enemy To Win: Support for the Jihad on American
Campuses”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Minor Hall Room 125
Time – 6:00 pm

University of Southern California: October 28th
Speaker – Andrew Bostom
“An Interactive Discussion on Antisemitism in Islam”
Event Co-Sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the ZOA, and the
Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Location – Salvatori Computer Science Center, Room 101
Time – 7:00 pm

University of Wisconsin-Madison: October 15th
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Location – Great Hall in the UW Memorial Union
Time – 6:45 pm

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: October 16th
Speaker – Robert Spencer
“Jihad: What Muslims Say it Means – And Why it Matters”
Location – 150 Bolton Hall
Time – 7:30 pm

Washington University in St. Louis: October 21st
Speaker – Daniel Pipes
“Vanquishing the Islamist Enemy and Helping the Moderate Muslim Ally”
Co-Sponsored by the Leadership Institute
Location – Lab Sciences Building, Room 300
Time – 9:00 pm