Criticizing Islam? Sorry, You're Cancelled

[Chris_]

Criticizing Islam? Sorry, You're Cancelled

Conservative warrior David Horowitz was scheduled to speak at St. Louis University this month. But he won’t be. University officials canceled his speech because of its title: “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”

Horowitz commented: “I have spoken at 400 universities. 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.” Cary Nelson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, said that with this cancellation, St. Louis University “joins the small group of campuses that are universities in name only…. The free exchange of ideas is not just a comforting offshoot of higher education; it defines the fundamental nature of the enterprise.

But the free exchange of ideas is something that is increasingly denied to conservative voices. Robert Spencer was set to speak at the American Library Association convention last summer but was canceled at the last minute after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Michael Savage was set to participate by means of a video link in a debate next Thursday at Britain’s Cambridge Union, but last Wednesday the debate was canceled. Julien Domercq and Jonathan Laurence of the Cambridge Union claimed that “there are numerous legal issues with Dr Savage speaking here.”

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That is how evil advances. That is how the road is paved for incitement to violence and hatred.

And increasingly, the voices that would defend freedom are silenced.

Exposure of the intolerance of the left can be an ugly thing.

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[thundley4]

I'm guessing that if he had been allowed to speak, the "oh so tolerant" lefty students would have , at the very least protested.  More likely there would have been some violence on campus.

[Chris_]

I'm guessing that if he had been allowed to speak, the "oh so tolerant" lefty students would have , at the very least protested.  More likely there would have been some violence on campus.

Ah, that must be it...cancelled for "safety reasons".   

[Ptarmigan]

Islamo-Fascism and the left are the same thing if you think about it. Let see.

Communist-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.
Nazis-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.
Radical Muslims-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................

[docstew]

Islamo-Fascism and the left are the same thing if you think about it. Let see.

Communist-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.
Nazis-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.
Radical Muslims-Hates Western Civilization, Jews, and Christians. Prone to violence.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.... hmmmmmm indeed...