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Tags: David Horowitz, GW, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, Michelle Malkin
With just another week before David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week sweeps campuses across the nation, I thought I'd run down what students should expect.
According to Horowitz, the event is designed 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 global jihad and Islamic supremacism."
The event will feature a selected film screening, including Islam: What the West Needs to Know, which explicitly paints Christianity and the West as moral do-gooders and Islam as an evil propagator of state-sponsored terrorism.
In addition, the event will be circulating a petition that "forces students and faculty to declare their allegiances: either to fighting our terrorist adversaries or failing to take action to stop our enemies," according to The Islamo-Fascism student guide.
Other events of the campaign include sit-ins at Womens Studies Programs to protest the "brutal and inhumane treatment [of women] in the Islamic world," and memorial services for "victims of Islamic terror."
Click here to see if your campus is participating in this bigoted, right-wing, racist scare campaign.
In response to the Horowitz campus campaign, protestors hung "Hate Muslims? So Do We" posters at GW, in an attempt to satirize the campaign's participants. For more about the poster see here and here. Michelle Malkin even picked up the story, calling the poster a “fake hate crime,” and derisively calling the creators “left-wing punks.”
If anything, its folks like Horowitz who are in need of education. Most serious experts on Middle Eastern politics and security dont want to associate with them, as anyone in the intel commnity will gladly tell you if you ask privately. All the smart money is on their approach to this issue being shallow and poorly thought out.
(apologies for the punctuation, Im typing this on a keyboard with the apostrophe key and a few others broken.)
Right, so what is the feminist response to the threat of Islam? To the oppression of women under Islam?