I witnessed MSU thuggish actions firsthand when a male individual who was filming the hateful procession had at least three Muslim males charge at him for daring to film as the females from the group walked past.

One of the males, a student named Yasser Ahmed (pictured above) who purportedly threw a cinderblock at an FBI vehicle during May 2007, said to him: "You wanna get jacked! We can go get jacked right now! C'mon Emanuel, we've learned a lot about you lets go! Lets go get jacked, Lets go get jacked!"

These hotheaded males from the Muslim Student Union claimed it was disrespectful to film them or put a camera too close to them. I was at the scene and could say for certain that Emanuel maintained a respectful distance and was merely filming as these students marched down ring road shouting "Judaism, yes. Zionism, no" at the top of their lungs.

In fact, considering that last year I had a camera shoved in my face by a female MSU student, I find the MSU"s objection to being filmed extremely laughable. Their reaction, moreover, was disgusting. A group cannot use a public university as a platform for hateful rhetoric calling for genocidal actions against Israel and expect not to be filmed! I could also say for certain that I had my picture taken at least ten times on Thursday by various individuals from the Muslim Student Union, both male and female.

Considering that the confrontation that occurred was blatant intimidation and, perhaps, assault, it needed to be reported to campus police who were present.

 Yet UCIPD treated this incident unprofessionally and took no action. Emanuel gave his statement to a UCI police officer and explained how he was assaulted. The officer then went to take statements from the males with the MSU, particularly one student named Ilgiz Khisamov who put his hands on Emanuel's camera and charged at him.

The police officer came back and told him one of the males who charged at him had apologized and that nothing more could be done.

I asked the officer how such behavior could be tolerated on a campus. I also stated that the MSU has the right to freedom of speech, which includes hosting hate mongers like Amir Abdel Malik Ali. They do not, however, have the right to assault individuals who choose to film or protest at their events. The officer asked me if I witnessed the incident and I said that I did. He didn't want to take a statement from me and told Emanuel that he now had statements from both him and the male from the MSU.

Case closed.

Interestingly enough a Christian preacher on campus, Michael Venyah, also had his rights violated and the cops on campus chose to do nothing. This preacher, who believes that all people must accept Jesus in order to get into heaven, began preaching about the prophet Mohammad and his crimes. Evidently MSU members didn't like hearing what he had to say and opted for charging up to him and running into him. This was obviously assault. The cops present did nothing and Edgar Dormitorio, the Dean of Judicial Affairs, suggested that Michael should leave.

That sounds fair, doesn't it? Amir Abdel Malik Ali spewed his genocidal thoughts for an hour on campus and was allowed the freedom of speech to do so. But a preacher who offended Muslims wasn't granted the same rights and the campus police wouldn't stop the males with the MSU from running into him deliberately.

Freedom of speech and expression has been monopolized by one group at UC Irvine. MSU organizers have taken it upon themselves to restrict the freedoms of others on the university campus and have managed to avoid significant criticism from the administration.