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Get ready for for this one: word has it that Columbia alumnus/right-wing writer David Horowitz plans to make an on-campus appearance sometime between October 22nd and 26th to spearhead “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” an event put on through the Terrorism Awareness Project. As a special treat, Horowitz plans to bring conservative talk show host Sean Hannity (who did this this little number a year ago) along with him to give us a speech all about Islamofascism. Details have been floating around here for awhile now, where a long list of speakers during the nationwide event include Rick Santorum (UPenn, Penn State, Temple) and Ann Coulter (Tulane, USC).
In a Monday blog post, Horowitz denounced the ISO’s Thursday evening event “Using Racism to Sell War: The West vs. Islam?” calling the event a message from “leftwing flak-catchers for America’s enemies.” In his next post, Horowitz refers to the Muslim Students Association as “a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and is funded by the Saudis and is part of the Islamo-fascist jihad,” generally speaking.
Brace yourselves?
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@please an open request to fox “news”- please just leave us alone and stop trying to pick fights. it’s pathetic and tiresome.
@it will be different because this guy is pro-israel, not against… and on this campus that is a crucial element regarding what kind of protests he will draw.
@hmm... I wonder if Hillel will be cosponsoring this wonderful event…
@hillel nope, hillel tries to stray away from the crazies
this guy pisses us off too, because it allows people to conflate pro-israel sentiments with “pro-war” or “anti-arab” sentiments, which is just as stupid as conflating Islam and terrorism.
@kopakabana I second #22’s motion.
@Spec Spec has confirmed that it’s the Republicans.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/27255
@Lerner Hall sched Auditorium (the only place security would let this place happen) is booked by Republicans for Monday, October 22nd and Friday October 26th.
If it’s going down, it’s going down on that Monday night, at 7pm (they have the auditorium booked).
I think Horowitz should debate a Columbia Muslim student. ANY Columbia Muslim student. He’d get his ass kicked.
@Bwog WHO’S HOSTING THIS?
@wait... Is Kulawik/the College Republicans even involved or is this Terrorism Awareness Project just coming?
@fkcs “refers to the Muslim Students Association as “a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas”
Are you fucking *kidding* me? Congrats Horowitz, you’ve rendered me speechless. Gee, I wonder if Bollinger will take a stand against some of his statements, or if he’s revulsion will be mysteriously absent that day.
@yeah, word If all this does go down, and Prezbo says nothing…I don’t even know. He needs to issue a strongly worded statement about the idiocy of conflating Islam with terrorism, and Muslims with terrorists.
Although I also like the Battle Royale idea. History tells us that Hamilton would win…
@Aaron Burr I beg to differ.
@Yeesh That’s got to be legally actionable.
@Columbia Man Shoulda put Ahmadinejad and Horowitz in one room.
@battle royale: Ahmadinejad, Horowitz, Kulawik, Karina Garcia, Charles Jacobs, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Massad, Bill O’Rielly, Aaron Burr, Mark Rudd, Duncan Hunter. All on one stage. Last one alive wins.
@... so umm the real question is how and where do i get tickets. i know ahmadinejads speech shafted a lot of people and i dont want to be in that position for this. i will not miss this if at all possible. find out bwog!
@coogan Okay, this isn’t ahmadinemania, nor is it mere campus gossip, because it’s scheduled to happen everywhere. Here’s a sampling:
–Brandeis, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Duke, Georgetown, Rice, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Yale
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism/49/a-students-guide-to-hosting-islamo-fascism-awareness-week/
@I'm a republican why claim your diverse on one hand in the spec and then bring horowitz (a guy who has admittedly done some interesting stuff), who is primarily a hate monger as your speaker? Hannity by himself would be fine, but there are so many much better voices the republicans could bring.
@Because they’re not really diverse, and are really just hate-mongers.
@And seriously Kulawik, reconsider what you’re doing. No other Ivy or school worth going to is doing this. You’re putting us to shame.
@fdhgj you my friend, stand corrected:
“Details have been floating around here for awhile now, where a long list of speakers during the nationwide event include Rick Santorum (UPenn, Penn State, Temple) and Ann Coulter (Tulane, USC). ”
(yes thats from the above post that you didnt really pay attention to)
@#8 again Actually, none of those schools in your list are in Columbia’s league, so no, I don’t. My response was based on that post, which didn’t mention anything about harvard, Duke, etc.
@Alum Now, now. UPenn is in Columbia’s league, both figuratively and literally. It’s not as good, but it’s in the same league.
@wow I fully support the rights of whichever narrow-minded groups that are sponsoring this event to hold it.
I’d also like to express how incredibly uncomfortable and upset this event makes me.
Some choice quotes:
Horowitz:
“Guns don’t kill black people, other blacks do”
“Baghdad is liberated. In the days to come let us not forget that if it was not for one man, and one man alone — George Bush — the people of Iraq would not be celebrating in the streets and pulling down Saddam’s statues today… We have entered the era of a new civil war between the forces of freedom and the powers of Islamo-fascist and communist darkness”
Coulter:
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
“They’re never very high in anyone’s caste system, are they? Poor little Pakis.”
“I think our motto should be, post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'”
@Bwog creates trouble and controversy because nobody cares about their JJ’s chicken fingers posts. It is, in short, Columbia’s gossip rag.
@thank you captain obvious.
@fuck... can we just stop? jeeeezuzzz
@random thought Is Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kind of like Hugs Not Drugs Week? Do we get to tie ribbons on trees and make a pledge to stay Islamo-Facist free?