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This week, student organizations at nearly 150 American colleges and universities will be organizing events for “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a national right-wing exercise in irrationality orchestrated by The David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project...
...experiences of millions of women into the stereotypical image of the veiled, Arab (and, one assumes, “subordinate”) woman is simply inaccurate (there are over 110 million Muslim women living in the more liberal Indonesia alone). By creating a singular entity of Muslim women, Horowitz allows himself to adopt the voice of the “Muslim woman” and use her oppression for his political aims. The cruel irony that the “feminist” Horowitz fails to realize is that in protesting the “silence about the oppression...
...coming days, 200 college campuses across the United States will be “rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever”: Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Organized and facilitated by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP), Islamo-Fascism Awareness aims to confront the two “big lies” of the political left: “that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.” This movement has little value beyond being a right-wing...
...Campus progressives chafe at the idea of rabble-rousing, controversial, and inflammatory events staged to criticize politically-correct excesses. Bigots like Ahmadinejad do little harm—few American college students share his opinions, and he already lacks credibility in most people’s eyes. But firebrands like Horowitz who bring legitimate—if often overblown and rhetorically inappropriate—criticisms to bear against the academic left pose a much greater threat: to expose to more observers the shaky foundations upon which most postmodern prejudices are bulwarked...
...Ahmadinejad did not himself bring much constructive debate to Columbia—and David Horowitz might not either. But the anti-establishment pundit brings a more credible voice against the misguided values held by much of the university crowd...