Posted on 03/05/2010 2:26:32 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students—aided by radical anti-Israel professors—hold an event they call “Israel Apartheid Week.” During this week, they try to persuade students on campuses around the world to demonize Israel as an apartheid regime. Most students seem to ignore the rantings of these extremists, but some naïve students seem to take them seriously. Some pro-Israel and Jewish students claim that they are intimidated when they try to respond to these untruths. As one who strongly opposes any censorship, my solution is to fight bad speech with good speech, lies with truth and educational malpractice with real education.
Accordingly, I support a “Middle East Apartheid Education Week” to be held at universities throughout the world. It would be based on the universally accepted human rights principle of “the worst first.” In other words, the worst forms of apartheid being practiced by Middle East nations and entities would be studied and exposed first. Then the apartheid practices of other countries would be studied in order of their seriousness and impact on vulnerable minorities.
Under this principle, the first country studied would be Saudi Arabia. That tyrannical kingdom practices gender apartheid to an extreme, relegating women to an extremely low status. Indeed, a prominent Saudi Imam recently issued a fatwa declaring that anyone who advocates women working alongside men or otherwise compromises with absolute gender apartheid is subject to execution. The Saudis also practice apartheid based on sexual orientation, executing and imprisoning gay and lesbian Saudis. Finally, Saudi Arabia openly practices religious apartheid. It has special roads for “Muslims only.” It discriminates against Christians, refusing them the right to practice their religion openly. And needless to say, it doesn’t allow Jews the right to live in Saudi Arabia...
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Now there’s a great idea! Islamic racists who organize the virulent anti-Israel lies hide behind campus freedom of speech codes, while ignoring facts and ignoringn hate speech codes. For a change let students and faculty take a look at actual cases of apartheid in their frenzy over fictional ones. Ah, academe.
I’ve run into idiots of this ilk on my campus. I have no problem with setting them straight, and they only try the same old intimidation tactics once... which is just enough for them to realize that I’m ready to take that to it’s inevitable conclusion. I’m yet to find one of these fools on my campus with enough calcium in their vertebrae to back up their rhetoric with action.
Joe, you don’t sound like the liberals’ favorite kind of man - a metrosexual. In the real world that translates into a neutered man.
“Joe, you don’t sound like the liberals’ favorite kind of man - a metrosexual. In the real world that translates into a neutered man.”
I just call a spade a spade, if that ruffles a few fundie feathers then so be it. I get the distinct impressions that the vast majority of FREEpers would react similarly.
As for me being a metrosexual... I just asked my wife and she almost fell down laughing, once composed she mumbled some thing like “more like a neanderthal” ;^D
Maybe there is hope for us yet! We are not extinct.
:-)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.