Islamo-Fascism Memory Hole

Campus Report ^ | November 2, 2007 | Malcolm Kline

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Islamo-Fascism Memory Hole

by: Malcolm A. Kline, November 02, 2007

Critics of the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) events that author and activist David Horowitz presented last month should have actually attended some of the IFAW lectures. They might have learned something, particularly from Nonie Darwish, a brave Muslim woman whose criticisms of Islamo-Fascism have put her life at risk.

Instead, they sought to discredit the event. The most egregious act was probably the fake flyer proclaiming anti-Muslim bigotry on the part of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) chapter at George Washington University (GWU) that sponsored the IFAW on campus. Stories wrongly attributing the, “Hate Muslims? So do we” quote to YAF received widespread coverage while follow-up stories in which YAF’s enemies on campus admitted to concocting the handbill were elaborated upon by Fox News and precious few other outlets.

Meanwhile, the story of the two students whose doors were painted with swastikas in the wake of the IFAW has only been covered by the campus newspaper at GWU even though the FBI has now been called in on the case. Shouldn’t this one be a natural for a so-called mainstream media ever in search of victims?

Before, during and after the IFAW, cluelessness reigned on college and university campuses nationwide, as ever. Professors and student groups sponsored something called “Academic Freedom Week”(AFW) at the University of California at Davis.