[DrNo]

Al-Arian is correct when he argues that Arab and Palestinian points of view deserve equal standing in every university's Middle Eastern studies department. No ideas -- even those of people preaching political violence -- should be censored in an academic setting.

No, ideas stand or fall on their own merits. None deserve "equal standing."

True, it is useful to take into account different views when evaluating ideas and positions, but this intellectual and moral relativism is repugnant.

Unfortunately, it is also rampant on our campuses.

Far too many people (especially students) believe in this fuzzy intellectual and moral equivalence.

Intellectual judgment is not censorship.

Ideas, like people, gain or lose respect, they don't automatically deserve respect.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

BUMP!