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This article at Frontpage by David Horowitz is an amazing read.

In true Nazi stormtrooper style, individuals at Columbia University are waging yet another attack to suppress the truth:

Why have some Columbians taken it upon themselves to conduct a hate campaign against students who want to discuss issues that affect us all?

I’m sure that’s just a rhetorical question.

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In fact, the people who are opposing Islamo Fascism Awareness Week at Columbia are the anti-war crowd; comprised of International ANSWER, et al., who appeared at Berkeley on Wednesday, ‘protesting’ the military recruitment office.

Why, on the other hand, were many of these same groups determined to welcome to Columbia a dictator who is providing weapons to kill American men and women in Iraq, who has called for the extermination of the Jewish state, and who presides over a regime that has murdered 4,000 gays and hung women from cranes for alleged sexual improprieties? If the welcome mat was okay for Ahmadinejad, why do these people want to deny a platform to Columbia students who are concerned about the threat of Islamo-Fascism?

As the History News Network discussed in this article on September 20th, Ahmadinejad’s invitation to speak at Columbia is no different than what happened in 1933: Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler invited Nazi Germany’s ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak on campus. Columbia U also held a ‘reception’ for him.

In 1936, Columbia sent a delegation to the 550th Anniversary of Heidelberg in 1936. Prof. Arthur Remy, was Columbia’s delegate, and later remarked that the reception at which chief book-burner Josef Goebbels presided was “very enjoyable.”

Columbia’s long association, support and fascination with fascist governments and murdering dictators and despots should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Is Islamo-Fascism a threat?

Was Nationalsozialist fascism a threat?

In fact, this is exactly the kind of question that will be discussed during the week of Oct. 22-26 at Columbia, unless campus leftists obstruct it the way they did Jim Gilchrist’s attempt to discuss the border issue last year. The fascist threat is real, and not just in Iraq or Iran.

Gilchrist’s appearance and the subsequent squashing of his speaking there when he was an invited guest - was a real eye-opener, and gives us reason to suspect that Columbia’s leftist students, egged on by terrorist-sympathizing fellows like Professor Joseph Massad, could entertain the idea of a repeat performance.

Writing in a recent issue of Spectator, Zahra Khimji, a Columbia sophomore, complained that Islam should not be part of this discussion, while suggesting that the Islamo-Fascists constitute “an incredibly minute minority” of her religion. Would this were so. Some polls estimate that 10 percent of Muslims support Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. An al-Jazeera poll put the number at 50 percent. In other words, somewhere between 150 million and 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims who don’t happen to be true believers in the Quran according to bin Laden. This is not an “incredibly minute” cohort.

I am sorry that Khimji feels discomfort as a result of the fear that terrorists have struck in the hearts of sensible people, but this complaint should be directed at the holy warriors themselves, not at their current and potential victims.

In fact, the very term “Islamo-Fascism” was coined by moderate Muslims who were being slaughtered in Algeria during the 1990s. A group now calling itself “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” killed between 150,000 and 200,000 “unclean” Muslims during that decade. In holding Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, students at Columbia will be standing up for the survivors and for all Muslims under the threat of fanatical terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

I always learn a lot from what David Horowitz writes.

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