The Jihad Is Joined At Temple University
The Muslim Students Association Attempts to Shut Down Free Speech on Campus and Is Challenged By the David Horowitz Freedom Center
The Muslim Students Association Attempts to Shut Down Free Speech on Campus and Is Challenged By the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Over the past decade the University of California at Irvine has become a center of Israel hatred and Jew bashing. It hosts countless radical Islamist events, many openly supportive of terror and jihad.
As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom’s apt description, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according to how well that speech conforms to existing political orthodoxies.
The College of William & Mary has fully reformed its campus speech policies to ensure that students and faculty may freely exercise their right to freedom of expression at our nation’s second-oldest university.
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.”
Conservative activist David Horowitz has been asked not to present a speech titled “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights” at St. Louis University.
The College Republicans at Saint Louis University say school officials blocked their efforts to have David Horowitz speak on campus during October. The university says it did not ban his talk but wanted to make sure his views on Islam and terrorism were balanced with other views.
Author and activist David Horowitz was invited to speak at Saint Louis University by the SLU College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation on Oct. 13. SLU officials, however, had problems with the subject matter of Horowitz’s proposed speech, entitled “An Evening with David Horowitz: Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”
Today’s Inside Higher Ed covers Saint Louis University’s decision to block David Horowitz from delivering an address called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.” Apparently, the university believed the program as planned was “attacking another faith” and could cause “derision” on campus (whatever that means).
In a 3-part series of blog posts, liberal academic Stanley Fish stresses the difference between education and indoctrination in university classrooms, and advocates for the former.