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Deleted site causes stir for Muslim organization Provost Nikias takes down posted documents calling on Muslims to kill Jews. Provost C. L. Max Nikias has approved the deletion of part of a Muslim student group website that hosted religious documents urging Muslims to kill Jewish people. The material was removed from a collection of scriptures known as hadiths, historical sayings of the Prophet Muhammad not included in the Quran. The hadith in question, along with thousands of others, are hosted in their entirety on a USC server as part of the now defunct Muslim Student Association's website. Nikias first heard...

The David Horowitz Freedom Center, John Ziegler and Citizens United Productions present the World Premiere of the new documentary "Blocking the Path to 9/11" on August 15th at the Skirball Cultural Center. Former KFI radio talk show host John Ziegler has written, directed and produced a documentary for Citizens United telling, for the first time, the incredible untold story of the controversy surrounding the ABC docudrama "The Path to 9/11," which was edited by demand of Bill Clinton and has since been censored from ever airing again, or having the DVD released. Interviewed in the film is the writer of...

A couple of years ago, a student in a Peace Studies course at Ball State, taught by jazz saxophonist George Wolfe, claimed that Professor Wolfe used his class to promote a political agenda, using the classroom to argue against all forms of violence except revolutionary violence, assigning a one-sided text which argued among other things that the word “terrorist” was another term for “guerrilla” and could be applied to the American founders, and offering extra credits and better grades to students who supported his viewpoints

Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11 By David Horowitz and Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, April 11, 2008 The following [link] is the introduction from the new book Party of Defeat by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson. The introduction lays out the book's thesis: that the opposition to the war in Iraq has crossed a troubling boundary. For the first time, a large number of national leaders have not merely opposed a war; that would be their inalienable right under the U.S. Constitution. Instead, they have actively sabotaged an ongoing...

"David Horowitz talked about his book Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11, published by Spence. In his book he criticizes members of the Democratic Party that, he says, are undermining the U.S.'s efforts in Iraq. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C." Watch now on c-span video: Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11 (streaming video - length: apprx 90min)http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205154-1&highlight=

Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11 Author: David HorowitzUpcoming Schedule Sunday, May 4, at 7:00 PM About the Program David Horowitz criticizes members of the Democratic Party that, he says, are undermining the U.S.'s efforts in Iraq. Mr. Horowitz spoke about this topic at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. About the Author David Horowitz is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of many books, including "Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey," "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left," and "Left Illusions: An Intellectual...

Islamofascism: Why It Is Fascism and Why Hating It Isn't Racist Nicholas M. Guariglia 06 Dec 2007 This is getting a bit tedious, but for as long as there are those who decry antifascists as something they are not, there must be those who forcefully defend the spirit of antifascism. A few weeks ago, student groups across some 200 universities aligned with commentator David Horowitz, amongst others, to declare Islamofascism Awareness Week. Such “cause-awareness” charades –– global warming/cooling awareness, the danger of giant man-eating squirrels/how to save endangered giant man-eating squirrels, etc. –– where do-gooders sit around a table and...

An American Secretary of State should be in Baghdad brokering a reconciliation between Iraqi factions and locking down a victory for which nearly 4,000 Americans gave their lives. Iraq is the central front in the holy war against the West being waged by al-Qaeda and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and an American defeat in Iraq would lead to an escalation of that war to proportions that would make the current conflict in Iraq seem tame by comparison. Instead, Condoleeza Rice has been shuttling between capitals in the Middle East in an attempt to feed a piece of Jewish meat...

I guess it’s noteworthy when George Soros singles you out for attack.[1] On the other hand, when you have been targeted by as many leftists as I have, one more billionaire doesn’t make much difference. These assaults have been inspired by my efforts to organize an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” whose goal was to identify America’s enemies as more than just “terrorists,” and specifically to link them to a radical movement within Islam, which has declared war on the West. One salutary aspect of the Week is to have exposed the breadth of the coalition that now functions as a frontier...

I was surrounded by sartorial splendor at the magnificent Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach last weekend as world-class experts expounded on some truly frightening topics – our government's handling of the war on terror, the pitiable state of Muslim women unfortunate enough to be born under Sharia law, and the consequences of a Hillary Clinton victory in 2008. The Restoration Weekend, hosted last week by David Horowitz's Freedom Center, is my all-time favorite conservative gathering. Unlike CPAC or other well-known conservative conferences, attendees have three days to hobnob with true conservative luminaries. To hold actual conversations with the likes of...

During the week of October 22-26, David Horowitz and his Freedom Center held a series of events at 100 campuses for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, intended to counter standard academic nitwitery about the war on terrorism ("America is evil," "We brought it on ourselves," "9/11 was a Republican conspiracy"). Admirable though this was, attention must be called to an even more imminent threat. By the authority vested in me (by myself), I hereby designate the week of November 5th Left-Fascism Awareness Week -- a time to consider the clear and present danger to free speech emanating from the left, from academic...

The hysteria that met David Horowitz and various campus speakers as part of last week's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was, unfortunately, all too common. College campuses, far from being a setting for the free exchange of ideas once imagined, have now been overtaken by leftist and Islamist student (and otherwise) groups bent on silencing all viewpoints that don't match their own. Hiding under the banner of moral superiority, these group's have adopted the fascistic tactics of Brown Shirts. While much has been written at Frontpage Magazine and, to a lesser extent, college publications about last week's disruptions, the mainstream media continues...

Conservative author David Horowitz spoke at Columbia University amid tightened security Friday - the latest in a string of political lightning rods to appear at the Ivy League school. Horowitz's appearance was part of the so-called Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on college campuses, intended to foster awareness of terrorism. But some Muslims say the week's activities are fostering racism instead. Horowitz, a self-described former Marxist, said the week was an effort to distinguish ``moderate Muslims'' from ``Islamo-Fascists.'' ``This is nothing that could remotely be interpreted as an attack on Muslims. It's a defense of moderate Muslims,'' he told a peaceful lecture-hall...

Conservative commentator David Horowitz was forced to cut short his speech on “Islamo-Fascism” in the face of repeated interruptions, heckling and catcalls from some audience members in a packed lecture room in White Hall on Wednesday. The event played out like a tug-of-war between two groups: protestors who shouted questions or anti-conservative taglines after every few sentences Horowitz spoke and another faction in the audience who became increasingly vocal about their desire to hear him speak uninterrupted. When the disruptions peaked about 20 minutes into Horowitz’s speech, Senior Vice Provost for Community and Diversity Ozzie Harris stood up at the...

It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week — the brainchild of David Horowitz, warrior for truth on American college campuses. Horowitz’s Terrorism Awareness Project website describes the effort as “the biggest conservative campus protest ever… a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.” And so later this week, Horowitz will be returning to Columbia University, his alma mater, “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 the terrorist threat.” Horowitz — who has former United States Senator Rick Santorum,...

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007 'Islamo-Fascism' brings in Santorum Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a Penn State alumnus, is scheduled to make a controversial appearance tonight on the University Park campus. Santorum Invited by prominent conservative writer and organizer David Horowitz, Santorum will speak in Osmond Laboratory as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. The Los Angeles-based Horowitz Freedom Center has assembled the theme week, which Horowitz said will reach 109 campuses nationwide. He said all are holding events to focus attention on fascism in the Muslim world, including the repression of women. He wants people to start discussing the debated term...

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has named David Horowitz the "Worst Person in the World" for organizing "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" on college campii nationwide, October 22-26. Again, because of the PC Internet police, I have to be careful what I say lest those who republish my columns be punished. Now, who is Keith Olbermann to be handing down such dubious distinctions, who knows. But is David Horowitz really this monstrous racist or is he doing the nation a public service by giving an alternative point of view to political correctness-indoctrinated college students...?

According to Alan Colmes, since evil dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not a liberal, but instead a "conservative," then conservatives in America should not be offended because the Iranian leader received better treatment on a college campus than some of America's conservative political figures, some of whom have been met with attacks with pies or other violence. Such was the absurd argument suggested by the liberal FNC host during a discussion on Monday's "Hannity and Colmes." Colmes commented to conservative guest/author David Horowitz: "Ahmadinejad's not a liberal. He's a conservative. He's very right wing. He was welcome at Columbia University. You...

Why Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Is Needed By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/24/2007 Members of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) are up in arms over an announced event which they depict as a “hateful” assault against the dignity of Muslims everywhere. “I haven’t decided what I think might be the recommended approach to this,” comments one MSA member. “Do we counter it with parallel events? Do we ignore it all together? Do we use it as motivation to put more work into our usual MSA activities?” Says another, “It would be nice to see some sort of unified response across all...

The firing of Ward Churchill for academic incompetence and fraud is long overdue. The fact that the chairman of the Colorado University regents said it was "not an easy decision to make" reminds us how this scandal lifts the lid on the vast corruption of the academic process that tenured radicals have accomplished in the last several decades. Churchill had no academic credential to be hired in the first place. His degree was an MA in graphic arts -- he was a painter -- bestowed by a rinky dink experimental college which is now defunct. He got an affirmative action...

When he was in office and responsible for protecting us, Al Gore was absent from the war on terror. As vice president, he was part of an administration that failed to respond to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993; that cut and ran when al-Qaida ambushed U.S. Army Rangers in Mogadishu; that called for regime change in Iraq when Saddam expelled the U.N. weapons inspectors but then failed to remove Saddam or to get him to allow the U.N. inspectors back in. He was part of an administration also failed to respond to the murder of...

Having lost one grandson (I hope temporarily – only until he matures) to the hate-America, leftist crowd of college professors who brain-washed him into thinking his country is the worst place in the world to live, I hope I was able to reach his younger brother who is starting college next fall. This younger grandson, Phil, seems more level-headed and normal. He plays basketball for his main hobby unlike his older brother, who is more inclined to the arts.

Cornel West joins black anti-Semites - Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:02 AM A group of black anti-Semites has announced a demonstration to protest the 40th anniversary of the "illegal occupation" of the West Bank (story and statement below). Every word in the statement put out by West and his Israel-hating, terrorist-loving friends is a lie. In 1967, the Arab states launched a war of aggression against the state of Israel using the West Bank as a corridor for their aggression. Their goal was the obliteration of the Jewish state. But Israel won what is now known as the Six Day...

LET'S BEGIN with the big lie—that Elian Gonzalez was separated from his father by his Cuban-American relatives living in Miami, and that father and son were reunited by Janet Reno's INS storm troopers. (What else can you call them, given their pre-dawn assault on a private home to snatch a child who was not a hostage, at gunpoint?) The entire premise of the Elian drama—that the Miami relatives have kept the boy from his father—is false. Elian was separated from his father not by Lazaro Gonzalez and company, but by Fidel Castro: the world's longest surviving and most sadistic dictator,...

Major universities in the Washington area will be among more than 70 U.S. campuses participating in nationwide "Islamo Fascism Awareness Day" events tomorrow. The events at Georgetown, Catholic University and George Washington University in the District, George Mason University in Fairfax and the University of Maryland's Baltimore County campus will feature screenings of "Obsession," a documentary film about Islamic radicalism, as well as discussions of related issues, including terrorism and the war in Iraq. The campus project was planned by conservative writer and activist David Horowitz as a response to attempts last year by officials at Pace University to prevent...

Debate on Academic Freedom with David Horowitz, author of "Indoctrination U.," and Cary Nelson, President of the American Association of University Professors Watch Description: At the National Academic Freedom Conference in Washington, DC, David Horowitz and Cary Nelson debate academic freedom at American universities. Mr. Horowitz's new book, "Indoctrination U.," argues that liberal professors force their political beliefs onto students, at the expense of providing a democratic education. Cary Nelson's book, "Office Hours," argues that conservatives are compromising educational quality by imposing intellectual surveillance on faculty members. Author Bio: David Horowitz was an organizer of the New Left movement in...

Mad Max: An Inherited Genetic Disorder Returns By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | March 8, 2007 [Editors' note: the article below is David Horowitz's defense of Matt Sanchez, a Marine corporal and Columbia student, who is now the target of the Left's campaign of personal destruction.] I am generally a forgiving soul. If treated half-decently by my opponents I am prepared to overlook many of their indecencies because I understand they come from a place of self-righteous zeal that often overwhelms their better judgment and inspires them to be nasty and dishonest in their service of their political agendas. After all,...

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There are two universities operating under the name the University of Texas. One is a world-class academic institution. Its faculty is professional and dedicated to disinterested scholarly inquiry. Its courses observe the principles of scientific method, and its students are taught to respect evidence and to demand more than one perspective on matters that are controversial. But there is a second university, which is quite different in its methods and goals. This university's faculty regard themselves as activists, not scholars, and their method is that of authority, not science. Their curriculum is designed not to teach students how to conduct...

Even as Islamic Hitlerites gather in Iran to deny the first Holocaust of the Jews and to plot the second, former President Jimmy Carter tours America with a new book that describes Jews as racists and oppressors, and suggests they are also a conspiratorial mafia that intimidates “critics,” controls America’s media and war policy, and are therefore also the source of Islamic terrorism and the Arabs’ genocidal campaign to eliminate them from the map of the Middle East. In other words, Americans beware of the Jew in your midst. Here is Carter’s description of the Middle East conflict in his...

. From a smiling Ronnie Reagan up There:The Return of the Good Guys By Judi McLeod Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Saturday afternoon at the movies. Watching the silver-badged sheriff booting the bad guys out of Dodge while munching on real-butter popcorn and savoring your once-a-week Tootsie Roll.Back in those days, the bad guy may as well have worn a shirt emblazoned with the word `Skunk!'. At the Saturday matinee, there was no need for second guessing, no political points, no propaganda and GI Joe was the undisputed hero.Remember?If only you could go back to the good days when American bashing...

(The following article by David Horowitz first appeared in our March 24, 2004, issue. An updated version appeared last September 11. It has been further updated to reflect information that has come to light since then. With tonight's premiere of the ABC-TV movie "The Path to 9/11," the truth impact of the Left's policies in bringing about the nation's worst terrorist attack is finally coming to light. -- The Editors) * "While the nation was having a good laugh at the expense of Florida's hanging chads and butterfly ballots, Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi were there, in Florida, learning...

Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary." The film deceptively invents scenes to depict former President Bill Clinton's handling of the Al Qaeda threat. Now, ABC claims to be is editing those false sequences to satisfy critics so the show can go on -- even if it still remains a gross distortion of history. And as it does so, ABC advances the illusion that the deceptive nature of "The...

Middle East professor sues conservative who linked criticism of Bush to terrorism - Stanford University's Joel Beinin is used to criticism for his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but when a conservative commentator put the professor's photo on the cover of a booklet titled "Campus Support for Terrorism,'' it started a whole new war. Beinin, a prominent Middle Eastern scholar, filed suit in March -- turning his ideological clash with FrontPageMag.com Editor in Chief David Horowitz into a legal one. Horowitz removed the photo from later printings, but Beinin said the harm had already been done and is demanding unspecified...

America and Israel are going to lose the war in Lebanon, and the American Left will have a lot to answer for. The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began with the Ayatollahs’ revolution in Iran in 1979 which established the first radical Islamic state whose masters’ war cry was “Death to America” and the establishment of a global Islamic empire. Nearly thirty years...

In war innocents pay a heavy price. There is no way to fight a war without “collateral damage” to civilians unless the opposing armies agree to meet in a desert and let the superior force prevail. It certainly cannot be done when the aggressor is a terrorist army that deliberately places its headquarters, its weapons depots, its missile launchers and its staging bases in the middle of large urban centers like Beirut, or in the small villages abutting the border of its victims. Sometimes the death of innocents comes not from collateral damage but from the deliberate targeting of civilians...

It is in the nature of Stalinism for its adherents to make a certain kind of lying – and not only to others but first of all to themselves – a fundamental part of their lives. It is always a mistake to assume that Stalinists do not know the truth about the political reality they espouse. If they don’t know the truth (or all of it) one day, they know it the next, and it makes absolutely no difference to them politically. For their loyalty is to something other than the truth. And no historical enormity is so great, no...

Americans need to take a hard look at what is going on in the Middle East, because it provides the clearest picture possible of the war we are in. On one side are al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizbollah, Syria and Iran and their allies: Russia, France, Greece, and the UN majority. On the other is the only democracy in the land of Muslim and Arab terror. The origins of this front in the war on terror are crystal clear: the desire of the Muslim terrorists -- the elected majority among Palestinian Arabs and the occupying Shi'ite army in Lebanon, backed by Syria...

The Washington Times reports on the headway that David Horowitz and the Academic Bill of Rights are making. According to the Times, this Bill of Rights has been introduced as legistlation in 18 states, while Ohio and Tennessee have "struck deals with their universities on protecting academic freedom in lieu of legislation." Moreover, students at Princeton took the Bill, converted it into a Student Bill of Rights, and passed it by a vote of the student body. But my favorite part of the Times' story describes how the left is fighting back. the Acadmic Bill of Rights : 1. Faculty...

If anyone doubts that the most serious threat to American security is the lack of fundamental loyalty on the part of significant segments of our population beginning with members of our intelligence and military agencies (egged on by irresponsibile leaders of the Democratic Party and the media), one has only to read this item from Reuters in today's news. Apparently some officials in the Pentagon, concerned that the White House might take action against Iran have leaked classified information to the press (which the press, of course, is all to eager to publish for our enemies to view). This particular tidbit of...

The American Association of University Professors is trying to spin the results of a poll it conducted to make it look like a ringing repudiation of the Academic Bill of Rights crafted by author and activist David Horowitz. “They do have an instinctive feel and sense that the kind of legislation that Horowitz is advancing is just not acceptable,” AAUP General Secretary Roger Bowen told the Chronicle of Higher Education. What the AAUP is trumpeting is the poll result that shows that about 80 percent of those questioned do not believe that “The government should control what gets taught in...

The Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC), a leader in the fight for intellectual freedom, and the Liberty Film Festival, Hollywood's first conservative film festival, are pleased to announce a historic partnership. The Liberty Film Festival is merging with the CSPC to create the premier conservative film and cultural organization in America. Author David Horowitz, founder of the CSPC, the parent organization of FrontPage Magazine, says: "We are thrilled to announce that the Liberty Film Festival -- that great, innovative, and irrepressible response to Hollywood's one-party state -- is joining the Center for the Study of Popular Culture....

See for example this thread first. The verdict made me quite surprised to say Ward Churchill plagiarized They say he's a fake! Now for C.U.'s sake a harsh punishment should be devised!

As one of Stanford University's most respected Middle East scholars, professor Joel Beinin knows what terrorism looks like. So it was a shock when he saw his own face on the cover of a new book titled ``Campus Support for Terrorism,'' linking him to radical Islam. He's suing the book's publishers in what is the first counteroffensive by a professor against a growing campaign by conservative groups targeting left-leaning college educators. Conservative groups acknowledge they are watching scholars like Beinin in an effort to combat what they believe are inaccuracies perpetuated by liberal faculties on college campuses. But while many...

On April 29th, 2006, America's Truth Forum presented a symposium titled, The Underlying Roots Of Terrorism: Terrorism's Threat to World Peace & National Security at the Doubletree Hotel Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. These are notes taken at the event by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler. Jeff Epstein, President of America’s Truth Forum, began by thanking the veterans in the room and noting the work of Frank Salvato, editor of The New Media Journal, who runs America’s Truth Forum web site and produces the group’s Terrorism Update Newsletter. Epstein said that the Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has interviewed Osama Bin...

Last week was Academic Freedom week on Radio Free Penn State, a public affairs show on Lion Radio, Penn State University’s radio station. “Issue advocacy is bringing our ideology into the classroom. Everyone does it,” said Penn State Professor Sam Richards, who in fact believes separating ideology from the classroom is impossible. Professor Michael Berube and Professor Richards of Penn State, David Horowitz, Representative Gibson Armstrong, David French of the Alliance Defense Fund and a number of past and current students took part in the four days of programming sharing their views on academic freedom issues. In the first day...

A panel on academic freedom at a symposium sponsored by the group founded by conservative author and activist David Horowitz featured a classic face-off between the educational establishment and education reformers. “Let’s not create policy on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations,” responded William Scheuerman, president of the United University Professions, the nation’s largest higher-education union, to allegations of political indoctrination. “I would like to see more rigorous sets of data.” Scheuerman was one of several speakers, brought together by the Students for Academic Freedom for their first national convention, held at the Washington Court Hotel in the nation’s capitol. SAF...

The big difference in the latest spate of horror stories about academic abuse is that they are taking place in lower grades. Sean Allen, a 10th-grader from Colorado who made national news when he taped his World Geography teacher’s political rant, spoke from experience, “I was flooded with similar stories from students across the nation,” he said at a conference on academic freedom. “We can’t simply deal with this on a case-to-case basis, we have to get to the root of it.” Sean firmly believes that the Academic Bill of Rights crafted by conservative author and activist David Horowitz gives...

The movement for academic freedom has been spurred on by students who have seen bias in the classroom or experienced political discrimination, stood up against it and become activists for their cause. A handful of these students were in Washington, D.C. to publicly share their stories at the recent Academic Freedom Conference held by Students for Academic Freedom on April 6-7. Student Mason Harrison, of University of California-Davis, encountered a political rant on the first day of a women’s studies class he’d enrolled in on a wager. “My professor began the class, not by introducing herself, but by chanting: ‘No...

Several professors from across the nation came together at the first conference on academic freedom, held in our nation’s capital last week. Not all the professors on the panel discussing “Faculty Issues” supported the Academic Bill of Rights, David Horowitz’ legislation to promote academic freedom. Yet, they all agree on one thing, it is time for a change on college campuses. “If you’re a multi-university,” started the moderator, Steve Balch, President of the National Association of Scholars, “than you should have many personalities.” He then elaborated that the biggest problem facing universities is, “the inability of the timid to stand...