A Campus Crusade Against Muslims

[Purveyor]

COMING SOON to a college or university near you: A crusade of racist hate against Arabs and Muslims, featuring some of the right wing’s most vile figures.

Beginning on October 22, conservative groups on more than 200 campuses will hold “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week”--an invention of David Horowitz, the self-appointed chief of the new campus thought police, that is being billed as the “biggest conservative campus protest ever.”

Horowitz--a former leftist turned hard-core right-winger--sees communist and Islamic plots to take over America lurking on every campus. In the past, he has organized witch-hunts against progressive academics and attempted to introduce legislation that would enforce “codes of conduct” that would silence left-wing voices on campus.

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According to FrontPage Magazine, the online publication run by Horowitz, the goals of the tour include: “To explain who the enemy is...a fanatical religious movement associated with the Muslim Brotherhood”; “to protest the violent oppression of women in Islam”; and “to strengthen those on campus who reject the anti-American curriculum of the tenured left.”

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A petition from the misnamed David Horowitz Freedom Center demands that “students and faculty...declare their allegiances: either to fighting our terrorist adversaries or failing to take action to stop our enemies.” In a throwback to McCarthyism, right-wing students are encouraged to issue press releases condemning those who refused to sign.

But just who are the “Islamic fascists? According to FrontPage, they include the Muslim Student Association, which has chapters on hundreds of U.S. campuses--and the Council on American Islamic Relations, which advocates for civil rights and tracks hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims.


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http://www.socialistworker.org:80/2007-2/649/649_12_Crusade.shtml

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1. I am SO excited by this. I can't even begin to tell you just how EXCITED I am.