Saturday, August 30, 2008

One Small Victory For Defenders of Freedom

As Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters have become increasingly influential at universities and colleges around the country, critics have charged that it is a hate group that sympathizes with the international jihad and promulgates an anti-American and anti-Semitic ideology in its campus actions. In response, the MSA has claimed that it is merely another religious and cultural group similar to Hillel, a club for Jewish students, or the Newman Club for Catholics. That deception has been now unmasked at the University of Southern California, where the school’s Provost, Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias, reacting to a call from the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has ordered the campus MSA to remove a “despicable” hadith calling for Muslims to murder Jews as a condition for redemption from its website.

David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, hails this as a breakthrough moment when the double standards that control the political and intellectual culture of most universities have finally been challenged. “Up to now, the slightest criticism of radical Islam on campus has been slammed as ‘Islamophobia,’ while Muslim groups and their radical fellow travelers have been allowed to say the most hateful things imaginable about Christians and Jews without any reaction from university administrators whatsoever,” Horowitz says. “Provost Nikias has called the hadith on the MSA website for what it is: despicable. Given the atmosphere that prevails on most campuses today, it was an act of integrity on his part to make this call and to demand that the MSA live up to basic standards of civility that should govern the university.”


This is an example of what we will see more and more as we influence the people around us. The more widespread the understanding of the uniqueness of Islam, the easier it will be to refuse any concessions to Muslim encroachments.

4 comments:

Damien said...

Citizen Warrior,

This victory may not be as small as you think it is. This is a huge blow against the Muslim Student Association. Even CAIR will have a hard time condemning the University of Southern California without revealing their true nature.

Dhivehi Resistance said...

Next step - Slap the Parental Advisory on the Hadiths!

christian soldier said...

David H. You are awesome...

My Christian "brothers and sisters" ..we must stand together to fight the on -slaught (sp) by the barbarians (Barbary pirates any-one?).

Citizen Warrior said...

Damien,

It sure made me smile.