Last week was "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" (IFAW) on many college campuses. Conservative campus groups promoted this week as an effort to support moderate Islam and to highlight the extremism of the radical politicized Islam. The naming of the week may be inartful, but the cause is reasonable.
This appeared today at NRO's "Phi Beta Con" blog, which keeps watch on political events on campus. I want to disassociate myself from the extreme language of the following piece, especially where Jim Abourezk is described as "an outspoken enemy of his own country." I am on record as suggesting Abourezk is more a fool than a knave. It is also my opinion that the author of this attack, David Horowitz, is too often intemperate, willing to discuss the ideas and actions of his leftist opponents in the most inflammatory language. Still, the following represents an all too typical low concern for free speech on campuses when it is speech that offends left-wing sensibilities.
In an email David Horowitz comments on what Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week achieved. Here is an excerpt:
The attacks on IFAW exposed the broad scope of the alliance between radical Islam and American leftists who regard it as their political task to run interference for America’s enemies: Iraq yesterday, Iran today. These attacks were spear-headed by the misnamed American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee whose founder James Abourezk is an open supporter of the terrorist army, Hizbollah, and an outspoken enemy of his own country. Under the Orwellian banner of defending tolerance, Abourezk’s group sent letters to the presidents of all the colleges hosting events, in an attempt to get administrators to shut them down and silence their speakers in advance. Abourezk’s Committee was joined by offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim American Society, the Council on America Islamic Relations, and the Muslim Students Association, all of whom set out to stigmatize the students organizing the events as racists and bigots and haters of Muslims.
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