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April 19, 2006
US: Speaker Needs Protection from Islamic Students
Via Liquid Life Hacker, comes a story that happens disturbingly often to politically incorrect speakers in America's college campuses. The obvious solution--to throw the disrupters out as soon as they begin--is somehow unacceptable: Muslims muzzling Memphis
Universities, for those of us who lecture on campuses, are the battleground for the heart and soul of the next generation of leaders. It is the battleground where we must fight to win back the opinion and allegiance of American college students. This is made harder when Islamists in both the college and local communities try to intimidate us and deny our free speech on campuses in some of the least likely places.We have grown to expect these things on the major East and West Coast "elite" university campuses that harbor radical professors and anarchist student and radical Muslim community activities. But not in the heartland where I spoke last week at the University of Memphis. What was shocking was that it occurred in the South, in "Bubbaland" as my friends from the region call it.
I was invited to give a lecture sponsored by Professor David Patterson of the Judaic Studies Program. When news about my appearance spread, the Muslim community both on and off campus launched a full-scale campaign to stop my lecture. They demanded that Dr. Patterson cancel my speech. E-mails flooded the University of Memphis administration and Dr. Patterson from Muslim students on campus and Muslims in the community and mosques. Here are some of their comments:[...]
And here is Brigitte Grabiel's website: American Congress for Truth
Posted by Ruy Diaz at April 19, 2006 11:13 PM
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