Posted on 10/03/2009 6:20:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Conservative activist David Horowitz will not be speaking at St. Louis University this month after school officials raised objections about the title and content of his speech, "Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights."
The SLU College Republicans, a student group, had invited Horowitz to speak on campus. The event would have been paid for out of student activity fees.
SLU said in a statement that it did not "ban" Horowitz from campus. Rather, the school was concerned that the event could be viewed as "attacking another faith and seeking to cause derision on campus."
Horowitz, reached by phone on Friday, called the university's decision "outrageous." He said his speech is about what he sees as a campaign against Jews and the state of Israel on many college campuses.
"I have spoken at 400 universities," he said. "This is the first time my speech has been censored and stopped by an administration. And they are supposed to be the guardians of intellectual discourse."
The school's action also prompted a sharp rebuke from Cary Nelson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, which found itself in the unusual position of defending Horowitz. The AAUP often does not see eye-to-eye with Horowitz, who criticizes college campuses for their women's studies departments and for allegedly stifling conservative opinions.
Nelson said in a statement that in canceling Horowitz's speech, SLU "joins the small group of campuses that are universities in name only."
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They will probably replace him with William Ayers someone more mainstream
I thought schools liked to cause derision.
Instead an Islamic cleric will give a lecture on the best way to demolish tall buildings.
....” And Horowitz said he knows that many people are particularly upset by the term “Islamo-fascist” but he said he does not insinuate that all Muslims are fascists.”
...he’s right....not all Muslims are fascists...the rest are fellow travelers.
I’m sorry to say it’s a Jesuit University.
The Jesuits have really gone around the bend, and their colleges are only nominally Catholic, IMHO.
Who the hell does he think he is calling islamderthals “Islamo Fascists”?
golly, I’m sure the mad man of Iran would gladly fill in.
Horowitz should resubmit: “Christian-Judeo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.” /s
Has Ward Churchill applied there yet? I think he’s looking for a job at just such a university.
I wonder if Notre Dame would let him speak.
They could always get Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi to say a word or two.
LOL!!!
I know this is appropos of nothing...
but, do you remember the movie “The Jerk”...
in the beginning, he sets out to hitch-hike...
and he is standing there, when a guy pulls up and says...
St. Louis,....
and Navin says .. no Navin Johnson!
I may be wrong, but I think this is the best throw away joke I ever heard!
A speech by the same title given by a representative of CAIR would have been welcomed.
Notre Dame? I am not sure but while watching the game today a commercial for ND was aired that “social justice is one of the schools goals. So wad du think?
“relictele” may have said this better, but that “other fff... fff... effing *faith*” is attacking us!
Freedom of speech is at odds with this whole leftist movement that now controls the country
Any SLU alums, cancel any current and future donations . . .
And let SLU know why.
He knows a commie when he sees one.
I am going to email slu and ask them how they can possibly call themselves a Jesuit university.
I thought schools were suppose to encourage discourse? That we were suppose to teach people how to think, not what to think, and to have the intellectual honesty to know the difference. And to have the courage to entertain that which is uncomfortable to talk about?
The self imposed censorship would have made Stalin, Mao and Mussolini proud.
A Jesuit university. Mine forced all freshmen to take “theology”... but the course included Nietzsche. So the anti-Catholic bigot Nietzche is required reading, but Horowitz is hate speech, at a Catholic university, no less. Dennis Miller once joked that a man who robbed the pope’s Christmas presents was trying to see how fast he could go to Hell. I think he’s got nothing on many Jesuits.
You folks have got it all wrong.
It’s not Islamo-fascist that has them all in a lather.
It’s the “Awareness” of something other then gays, diversity, global warming, etc.
These are the only things that students are to be made aware of.
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