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...occurrence at institutions of higher education is a massive shame. At best, it will spark superficial debate on religious fundamentalism without offering a balanced political or cultural history to support its claims. At worst, however, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week will serve to further already damaging misconceptions about Islam as a religion, misconceptions that are already widespread throughout the American government and the public. To deny that Islamic terrorists pose a threat to the West would be shortsighted and wrong. Fundamentalism and religious extremism—regardless of the specific faith that they spring from—have the potential...
...reply to an unprecedented statement from Muslim clerics and scholars about the common ground between Christianity and Islam, Christian intellectuals, including nine Harvard professors, issued a letter this month responding to what many of them saw as a deeply significant gesture from the Muslim community. With 138 Muslim signatories, the September letter, “A Common Word Between Us and You,” outlines the shared belief of the love of God and the neighbor between the two faiths, and discusses the need for peace between the two religions. It draws comparisons between the Koran...
...Spectator soured at the prospect of Horowitz’s visit to campus for Islamo-Fascism Week, ominously warning that the event’s organizers “dangerously (if unsurprisingly) conflate extremists who practice Islam with the faith itself.” As if the presence on campus of the world’s most prominent dictator did not bear similar worries about the types of values implicitly endorsed by the University. One can expect The Crimson to tow a similar line someday soon...
...could expect similarly impassioned rhetoric to accompany the advent of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” today. An initiative led by the neoconservative critic of academia David Horowitz and others, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week intends to highlight the silence about atrocities committed in the name of Islam on college campuses, where blaming America is all in vogue...
...visiting the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, where he prayed shoulder-to-shoulder with the Turkish imam. Though tensions remain, a letter earlier this month addressed to the Pope and other Christian leaders, signed by 138 prominent Muslim clerics and scholars, is seen as a potential breakthrough in relations between Islam and Christianity...