Okay, I know I've been talking a lot about David Horowitz and Islamofascism Awareness Week (IAW) today. But there are so many serious and weighty questions in life, so much tragedy and heartbreak that you really have to grab on to the comedy with both hands when it comes along. And watching IAW really is like watching a real live version of Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman unfold before you.
Okay, and sometimes I get a little too serious about life, but I’m going to rank this IAW crap with the serious and weighty, because, as TPM points out later in a quote from a reader reporting on the events of IAW in his area…
You'll be happy to know the local public radio affiliate here in Providence, WRNI, has gotten into the festivities. They ran a story on the morning drive local news segment this morning about Islamofascism Awareness Week and the effort to challenge "leftist professors" attacking Bush. The University of Rhode Island is apparently involved, but there was no indication of what they are actually doing to advance the cause of getting David Horowitz' name out there....er...I mean to advance the cause of IAW. They did quote a college Republican who said the week would allow them to target "tenured leftist professors teaching anti-American curriculum". How they are doing that--beyond finding gullible media people desperate to bow before the altar of "objectivity" and "balance" by reading Horowitz' press releases on air--remains uncertain.
This isn’t the first we’ve seen since the invasion of Iraq of organized attacks on liberal professors. And, frankly, I find that to be a very disturbing thing.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
I became a liberal in 2001, and a professor in 2007. So I guess that makes me a liberal professor, probably one of not many in the engineering school.
ReplyDeletedo tell the story of the liberal "becoming". was it a conversion?
ReplyDeletecongratulations on the professorship.
and be careful out there.
islamism is a threat to civilization, but targeting liberal academics is a good thing? does that make sense to you?
ReplyDeletei think you might want to go back and rethink your arguments.
also, islamism is the "main threat" to modern civilization? since you liken it to white supremacy, how is the former more of a threat than the latter?
is islamism more of a threat to modern civilization than global warming? than nuclear warfare? than poverty, hunger and repression?
"islamism is a threat to civilization, but targeting liberal academics is a good thing? does that make sense to you?"
ReplyDeleteTargeting liberal academics per se makes no sense. Targeting liberal academics as an Islamofascist conduit makes a lot of sense.
"also, islamism is the "main threat" to modern civilization? since you liken it to white supremacy, how is the former more of a threat than the latter?"
You must have been in a coma for the last 30 years. White supremacists have tens of thousands of supporters around the world and majority of Christians despises them. Islamists have hundreds of millions of supporters around the world and a lot (maybe even majority) of Muslims loves them. Most of Christians probably never even heard of David Duke, arguably the most known white supremacist alive, while bin Laden is the most popular (alive) figure in the Muslim world.
"is islamism more of a threat to modern civilization than global warming? than nuclear warfare? than poverty, hunger and repression?"
What are you, three?