Day 3 - Horowitz Lectures on Hateful MSA
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 05/14/2008 8:51 PM
Despite being buried at a very remote location, David Horowitz addressed a decent size crowd on the dangers of totalitarian Islam and the vile behavior that emanates from Muslim Student Associations on University campuses. Horowitz maintained that while the MSA masks themselves as a religious and cultural organization, they are largely a radical political network with roots dating back to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He especially targeted UC Irvine, calling it "America's worst university" in terms of radical Islamic organizations.
Horowitz also addressed the MSA as campus supporters of genocide and unapologetically compared Islamic radicals as compatible to 1930's fascism.
Horowitz maintained that the main hindrance to solving the problem is the hypocritical and cowardly nature of progressive university faculty. More ironically, administrators who coddle such groups that run in opposition to their purportedly "liberal" values.
For Horowitz, the solution is exposing these administrators. Gary Fouse has the scoop of the explanation during the Q and A:
Horowitz also addressed the MSA as campus supporters of genocide and unapologetically compared Islamic radicals as compatible to 1930's fascism.
This is a global movement for genocide. Hitler called this the final solution.
Horowitz maintained that the main hindrance to solving the problem is the hypocritical and cowardly nature of progressive university faculty. More ironically, administrators who coddle such groups that run in opposition to their purportedly "liberal" values.
For Horowitz, the solution is exposing these administrators. Gary Fouse has the scoop of the explanation during the Q and A:
During the question and answer session, I pointed out to Horowitz that 99% of the students at UCI have nothing to do with the ugliness, but that we had 2 problems: the MSU and the administration, which was ?in the tank for the MSU? and was hiding under their desks, either out of fear, apathy or just not caring about their Jewish students. I implored Horowitz to keep the public spotlight on UCI because the public needs to know what is going on our campuses. Horowitz urged me to keep him informed of what is going on. (I will.) There are two more days to report on. That is if I don?t get fired today. These academic types have no sense of humor, you know.Fouse also has the scoop on ANSWER Coalition's Jim Lafferty, the MSU's 3rd featured Hate speaker.
Day 4
On the final day of the Muslim Student Union's "Palestinian Holocaust Week" at UC-Irvine, the highlight of today's program was the speech by Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a fiery Imam from Oakland, who comes to UCI every quarter. He is an open supporter of Hamas and Hizbollah and anti-American to boot.
Malik Ali is the classic example of the adage: "Show me a great speaker, and I will show you-a great speaker". He is a magnificent public speaker. It is what he says that is objectionable. In past appearances at UCI, he has described suicide bombers, as heroes and martyrs, and railed about "Zionist Jews". Today, he took pains to state that many Jews oppose Zionism. (Thanks a lot.) Yet, his hour-long speech was all vitriol toward Israel-and toward America. Imperialistic America. He referred to President Bush as "an idiot" on numerous occasions. He referred to an unnamed African-American general (head of US forces in Africa) as an "Uncle Tom".
Toward the end, Malik veered off course and talked about the drug epidemic that plagues black neighborhoods. He implied the old canard that the government planted crack into the black community. (As a retired DEA agent, I could have reminded him that no black crack addict gets his or her crack from any white person-only black crack dealers, but i had a more pertinent question in mind.)
At the conclusion of his speech, I raised my hand and got the first question:
I asked him simply-which he hated more, Israel- or America.
His answer: "I hate imperialism."
He went on to expound on that, but I wasn't really listening. I wanted to pin him down on my question. I followed up by asking if he loved his country, America.
Again, he started on a long answer that started out with why a rape victim should love her rapist. I then finished by concluding that he hated America-as the student moderator cut me off in order to move on to the next questioner.
Before the program started, I looked around to see if Cindy and Craig Corrie (whose daughter was killed in Israel trying to block an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a house) were present since they had stayed around to watch yesterday's program-which was relatively tame. They were apparently not present. I had hoped that they would hear Malik Ali's words. It might have given them pause.