Posted on 11/04/2009 4:29:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Members of Seattle University’s Muslim community have been gathering signatures on a petition since Monday to voice their resentment over the university hosting author Nonie Darwish last week.
Darwish, a former Muslim who renounced Islam for Christianity and tours the nation speaking out against radical Islam and Sharia law, spoke at Seattle University Thursday. Event organizers maintain they brought Darwish to campus to foster discussion about human rights issues and conflict in the Middle East.
“The idea of a university is to exchange ideas,” said Gracie Cohen, a sophomore pre-major who publicized Darwish’s talk.
Some students, however—who said Darwish spreads falsehoods and undue fear about Islam—demonstrated at the event Members of Seattle U’s Muslim Student Association plan to bring their grievances to President Stephen Sundborg, S.J.
“We believe hosting a person like Nonie on the SU campus is contrary to all of the values upon which this institution is founded,” said Ahmed Alnafie, former president of, MSA. Darwish is the author of three books: "Now They Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror,” "Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law” and “Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West.”
“The message she carries is a message of hatred and defamation to Islam,” Alnafie said. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America—a nonpartisan media-monitoring organization formed in 1982 that focuses on decreasing anti-Israel bias in mainstream news—sponsored the event. Cohen, a CAMERA intern, publicized Darwish’s appearance at Seattle U through e mails and flyers.
Darwish—whose father was an Egyptian lieutenant general killed by Israeli Defense Forces when she was 8 years old—has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Fox News. She has spoken at universities including Harvard, Brown and Georgetown.
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“tours the nation speaking out against radical Islam and Sharia law”
PRECISELY why most Muslims are ENEMIES of America. They BELIEVE in what radical Islam teaches, and they WANT Sharia Law imposed on ALL of.
ALL Muslims in America should be given two choices: convert to another religion - or LEAVE.
What a bunch of bigots.
I can’t think of anything else to say other then we have some really dumb kid in the US, and they tend to subscribe to Liberalism, what a shock!
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“Darwish spreads falsehoods”
Darwish spreads truth. The pig swiving muzzies hate that!
You have right to free speech, as long as you are not dumb enough to actually try it. - Joe Strummer, Know Your Rights - Combat Rock
“”Members of Seattle University’s Muslim community have been gathering signatures on a petition since Monday to voice their resentment over the university hosting author Nonie Darwish last week””
These students must have a lot on the ball - a petition gathering signatures AFTER Noni appeared last week? For what? Disinvite her? Wipe out the record showing that she did appear? Her books are great and I imagine that she is one great speaker also. Certainly she’s someone who knows what she’s talking about unlike the protesting students without her life experience(s).
Why don’t they just shut up and go back to their country of origin and attend the universities there? We know why our universities were established and it’s not for the purpose reported in the article. They were established for US. Maybe some day we’ll get the riff-raff out of them (students AND professors) and go back to really providing meaningful educations to our students.
.............Students rally against ex-Muslim speaker
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I can only wish that the students had rallied against an ex (?) muslim President!
Free speech for us, none for you ... ROP
Seattle U is a Catholic university, isn’t it?
All Islam is radical.
We have free speech in this country. Those who don’t like it can leave.
Words of wisdom from the only band that matters. ;)
No surprise, after all...this is SEATTLE...
These advocates for censorship were no doubt the ones screaming that Bush was taking away our freedom.
Ditto
And muslims in America should get no press either, because they need to firstly STFU and secondly GTFO of my country.
Again, the media exposes itself as a tool of the left by giving constant, fawning coverage of this nonsense.
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