Posted on 04/12/2006 8:35:52 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
During the lengthy Q & A period that followed the discussion, a number of students, some wearing head scarves, lined up to ask questions, almost all of which were hostile, but not one of them so much as laid a glove on either Pipes or Brooks.
Security for the event was heavy. There were three policemen in the auditorium, two guarding the door, and several outside.
I am not an objectivist--a follower of Ayn Rand's philosophy--but the USC Objectivist Club deserves kudos for having the courage to hold this panel discussion.
Very true, but tell it to the Whiners Club, starting with Cynthia McKinney, Je$$e Jack$on, and Al Sharpton, and include all those C.A.I.R. people. Some people are "offended" by the fact that other people exist.
go trojans! :)
I'm not QUITE an objectivist either; even though I read all of Ayn Rand's books at least once each every year, and LOVE Atlas Shrugged.
But as far as the cartoons: Big deal.
Who (of people who care about anything more than who wins American Idol) HASN'T seen them?
I would have liked to have been able to hear the speakers though.
>go trojans! :)
I'm sure you mean the team :)
Did they include the photo which (A) was not a cartoon, (B) was not a commentary on Islam, and (C) was an AP image of a man dressed as a pig at a hog calling contest?
The realitiy of the Dutch cartoons is not the only issue at hand. The images the riotous muslims were responding to were also at issue. They were manipulated into their rage by deceptive clerics. Expose the trick. For now the blame in the West is directed too often at the cartoonists. The other side fanned the flames. They prove the cartoonist who drew the turban with a fuse "correct".
A similar examination needs to be done whenever we consider the images from Abu Ghraib. Muslims were also responding to some deliberately hoaxed (by someone in the British military) images of a British soldier uringating on an "Iraqi prisoner" (as published in the Mirror) and some porn site sex photos that the muslim press (and Boston Globe) ran as "proof" of US soldiers "raping" "Iraiq women".
Even if you are not an Objectivist, their meetings are some of the most mentally challenging meetings on campus.
Daniel Pipes ping.
South Park tie-in!
The hard left Democrats and liberal Loons lack the will to use their US military to fight Islamic fascism and reject its ideals Brooks SHOULD have said.
I love that gif, it is almost perfect!! Your plane and explosion is really good too.
Gotta say, doing this at the University of Saudi California takes some brass ones.
(And I'm allowed to call it that-- I'm an alumnus.)
What is this South Park stuff about? I see it is a cartoon listing or something on satellite but it has as much a chance as Katie Couric does getting on my hugh projection home theater.
Go easy on me.
Another asked why the panelists used the term "anti-Semite" to describe Jew-hating Arabs, who are also Semitic. Pipes gave the questioner a brief history lesson--as to how the false notion of a "Semitic race" arose in the nineteenth century, how German Judeophobes began calling themselves anti-Semites in the decades preceding World War I, and how the term has become accepted as a description of Jew-haters.
I don't remember that one. The ones on display--blown up and placed on easels behind the panelists--were the cartoons published in the Danish daily. The one I remember best showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.
Also on display was a Muslim protester holding a sign reading, "to hell with freedom."
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