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Criticizing Islam? Sorry, You're Cancelled
Human Events ^ | 10/15/2009 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 10/15/2009 11:16:35 AM PDT by opentalk

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.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; achillwind; cair; censorship; islam; islamicimperialism; muslim; university
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).
1 posted on 10/15/2009 11:16:35 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

The only “free speech” allowed any more is that which trashes Christians and capitalism and truth.

All others are welcome to promote hate and lies in the increasingly fascist America.


2 posted on 10/15/2009 11:23:23 AM PDT by eleni121 (For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: opentalk

CAIR is alligned with terrorist sympathizers. Our own government calls them unindicted co-conspirators.


3 posted on 10/15/2009 11:27:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
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To: opentalk

I believe SLU is a Jesuit University, so I am not at all surprised by their decision.


4 posted on 10/15/2009 11:29:42 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: opentalk

NO **YOU** ARE CANCELED..!

5 posted on 10/15/2009 11:36:35 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

SLU’s contact info:


email: admitme@slu.edu
phone: 314.977.2500 or
1.800.SLU.FOR.U
website: admissions.slu.edu


6 posted on 10/15/2009 11:39:51 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: opentalk
And they are supposed to be the guardians of intellectual discourse.”

Intellectual? That factor's been long gone from nearly all our universities!

7 posted on 10/15/2009 12:12:36 PM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: opentalk

He should pose as an “anti-zonist”.

They would put on a reception for him.


8 posted on 10/15/2009 12:25:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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Anyone else think that Geert Widers speech at Columbia will either not occur or be crashed?
Alumni and people like Ms. Geller are not being let in, but the same kiddies who shut down the Minuteman speech at Columbia will join the MSA in exercising a heckler's veto.
9 posted on 10/15/2009 5:30:51 PM PDT by rmlew (Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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