Author David Horowitz responded today to his recent controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. David Horowitz, a popular conservative writer, was derided in a Nazi-like anti-Semitic cartoon, put out by the Muslim Student Association.
The cartoon, which was copied and spread around campus, portrays Horowitz, a Jewish man, as a hooked-nose Nazi hiding in a trash can. The cartoon is a direct reference to similar anti-Semitic cartoons circulated in Germany right around the time of the Holocaust. In the crude cartoon, Horowitz has an armband with the letter "H," a direct and tasteless reference to the yellow armbands Jews were forced to wear in the Holocaust, with a Star of David, denoting themselves as Jews. Horowitz has been outspoken on Islamic fascism and was set to speak about it. The cartoon also includes the phrase, "Horowitz Awareness Week."
More than ten students were removed from the hall in which he gave his lecture, and metal detectors were set up in the entrance.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has yet to put out a statement condemning the obviously anti-Semitic cartoon. This may become a bigger issue, as the Muslim Student Association is a campus organization, funded by students of the university and the university itself. The Muslim Student Association, which made the cartoon, has yet to make any public statements or apologies. The Muslim Students' Association has its campus headquarters located inside the Student Union, with its own office. While walking in the Student Union, Horowitz discovered the crude cartoon.
The Muslim Students' Association is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. The flier also stated support for jihad.
Horowitz said that 2,000 fliers, advertising his speaking engagement, were torn down by members of the MSA.
Horowitz wrote an article about this event, at Frontpagemagazine.com, titled "My Encounter with the Enemy in Milwaukee."
Thanks for this article, Susie. Now this roundly shows the hypocrisy of the muslims, since I assume these same students were shocked and outraged at the Danish cartoons?
How quickly we forget...
I believe that this should result in University action to stop these scurrilous activities on the part of that student association. Racism of any kind is and should be anathema to any civilized human being, and to allow it in an academic setting is outrageous and a horrible precedent for other schools.
<sarcasm>Now how long before main stream press outlets begin publishing this cartoon? It IS news, isn't it? </sarcasm>
However obnoxious the speech, speech remains free in the US unless it is an incitement to violence or other illegal activity. This utterly tasteless and obnoxious speech by some ignorant students is protected by our constitution. There are many around the world who question why we adhere so strongly to this document. It is this type stupidity that gives some credibility to them, however, we should not forget that our freedoms depend upon allowing for freedom of those who we find abhorrent on occasion.
You're completely off, not to mention missing the point, ethwc. The students involved with the MSA RIPPED DOWN this man's fliers, thus impinging on HIS freedom of speech. Trying to silence someone else is not the same as expressing your own free speech - far from it. Also, though that hideous cartoon may be construed by some as free speech, it still violates hate laws. Hate crimes are punishable by law. I hope the University of Wisconsin gets some cahones and disciplines the MSA, especially as it is a campus-funded club with its own private space in the university's Student Union. So really, the University could be considered liable if someone were to bring a case against this.
How did the cartoon, which none of us have seen, violate the Hate laws? Isn't Horowitz one of those neo-cons that advocate an endless-war against muslims? If so, why is THAT not a hate crime?
From Wikipedia:
David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American neoconservative writer, and activist. The son of two life-long members of the Communist Party and once a prominent supporter of Marxism as well as a member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected Leftism and is now a prominent advocate for right-wing causes. He is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), and has served as president of that organization for many years. He is the editor of the conservative website FrontPage Magazine, and his writings can also be read on prominent news sites and publications, including the conservative magazine NewsMax.[1] He founded the activist group Students for Academic Freedom and is affiliated with Campus Watch. He occasionally appears on Fox News Channel.
On April 14 2008, the David Horowitz Freedom Center ran an ad in The Daily Nexus, the University of California Santa Barbara school newspaper that stated, "the [Muslim Student Association] is a radical political group that was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the godfather of Al Qaeda and Hamas, to bring the jihad into the heart of American higher education."[22] The Santa Barbara Chapter of the Muslim Student Association's president gave a statement that ran the next day saying, “The underlying [message] is an ambiguous and perceived threat of a UCSB group being a terrorist organization. The ad is not only hurtful but threatening and could incite violence on campus. As a Muslim organization we should be concerned for students and the entire community. It is frightening and upsetting.” David Horowitz responded in another article by arguing that UCSB's MSA denied that MSA is acting as a support for the jihad network, but, at the same time, he refuses to condemn the genocidal incitements and actions of Hamas and Iran" because MSA refused to sign a petition created by Horowitz himself.[23]
A similar ad was run in the UWM Post student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in April 2008.
It seems that Horrorwitz was muslim-baiting and can't stand the heat.
Similar to what the JDF would do if some muslim author had been baiting jews.
At the very least, Oldfart, the carton, as described, is a product of intolerance, and as such, should not be encouraged in a university setting. At the very least, it is an indication that the student group cannot themselves take the heat, and feel the need to respond by lovering themselves to his level.
So, does his bating them make their response right?
I always thought that two wrongs don't make a right.
Two wrongs don't make a right unless it is the pot calling the kettle black. Trust me, the Horrorwitz story gets even worse as you read it. The guy is a certifiable racist nutcase.
However, I agree he should have been allowed to speak. I have always felt that if you disagreed with someone's right to speak, the best way to show that disagreement is not to listen to them. I will support the disciplining of the MSA just as soon as the SAF is disciplined for their many transgressions. Oh wait. They support Israel. I forgot. They can do no wrong.
Two wrongs don't make a right unless it is the pot calling the kettle black.
But in this case, it sounds as if we have the pot and kettle in a shouting match, each accusing the other of being black. Neither of whom is in the right, because stifling anybody's right to speech is wrong.
You cannot say Horowitz is wrong just because in the past, he hasn't been a good little boy, meaning that the muslim students have some kind of right to play catch up. They don't, and the muslim students' actions this time don't give him a free pass the next time, either.
I would go along with you IF the same screams about fairness had arisen when Horrorwitz tried to get the MSA declared a terrorist organization. But, of course, they didn't. You can only have equal treatment for equal wrongs IF all things are equal, but they are not. In this country, thanks to people like Horrorwitz, the MSA will always be treated as suspect and always called out for the slightest errors while the SAF is treated with baby gloves for the same kind of activities.
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How quickly we forget...
I believe that this should result in University action to stop these scurrilous activities on the part of that student association. Racism of any kind is and should be anathema to any civilized human being, and to allow it in an academic setting is outrageous and a horrible precedent for other schools.
<sarcasm>Now how long before main stream press outlets begin publishing this cartoon? It IS news, isn't it? </sarcasm>