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Jap Awareness Week

Ok, not quite that bad, but close. The David Horowitz Center for Freedom is sponsoring Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week on college campuses throughout the country in October. According to their guide this will be the “biggest conservative campus protest ever.” — meaning more then 100 people will participate.

The organizing guide for the event makes the agenda fairly clear:

If you are looking for a challenge this fall, if you want to break through the barrier of politically-correct doublespeak that prevails on American campuses, if you want to help our brave troops who are fighting the Islamo-Fascists abroad — bring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week to your campus this October.

The list of planned events include:

1. A showing of Suicide Killers, Obsession, or Islam: What the West Needs to Know or the ABC mini-series The Path to 9/11
2. A panel on the Oppression of Women in Islam or any facet of the Islamo-Fascist threat
3. Distribution of materials on Islamo-Fascism including the pamphlets The Oppression of Women in Islam, The Islamic Mein Kampf, Why Israel is the Victim, Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews, and What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad.
4. A “sit-in” outside the offices of the Women’s Studies Department protesting the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam

Somehow, I find it hard to believe that these conservatives actually care about the rights of women in the Middle East , or anywhere else. Rather, for these people the plight of women around the world becomes just another rallying cry for their race-baiting.

The real problem with all of this, aside from the dehumanization, is that these kinds of demonizations actually harm the security efforts of our country. America has not suffered from the disaffection of Arab or Muslim youth seen in Europe because we have not ghettoized these groups of immigrants. America has treated these immigrants no differently then others. By demonizing them we risk loosing their cooperation and isolating them from the rest of society. In general, isolation breeds radicalism. Mr. Horowitz and his followers don’t see this as a problem, the see it as a goal: they seem to like their Muslims as charactictures: bearded, turbaned, and bomb throwing. And the goal of an event like this is to get the rest of us to see the Muslim world with the same hateful stare that they have.

This entry was posted by steve on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 pm and is filed under Injustices, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.