Daily Blog Buzz: College Campuses Hate Conservatives

Campuses across the country will be participating in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week from October 22-26, 2007. According to the Terrorism Awareness Project, "[t]he purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat."

Campus events will feature speakers like David Horowitz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who will discuss oppressive Islamic sharia law. George Washington University's Young America's Foundation (YAF) is sponsoring the week at the D.C. campus, where Horowitz will speak. The events focus on radical Islam, and are in no way advertised as anti-Muslim.

However, seven GW students posted fliers around campus to smear YAF and the event. The phony YAF fliers said:

"Hate Muslims? So do we!!!" Below the statement is a picture of a Muslim man next to a diagram describing a "typical Muslim." Some features mentioned include "venom from mouth," "suicide vest," and "peg-leg for smuggling children and heroin."

The GW Young America's Foundation is named as a contact on the poster, but leaders of the conservative organization said they had no involvement.

The seven culprits include Adam Kokesh, a "graduate student and Iraq war veteran." According to Little Green Footballs, Kokesh "is part of IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War) and is infamous for being prosecuted for wearing his uniform at an anti-war protest." Not to mention, Kokesh may be investigated by Marine Corps officials for participating in the protests.

Clearly, the posters were an attempt to defame a conservative group that is not only against radical Islam, but also supports the war in Iraq. And now, rather than crack down on these seven students, GW is cracking down on...Young America's Foundation.

Via Little Green Footballs, YAF reports:

Leftist administrators at The George Washington University are on a rampage against a conservative group on campus for anti-Muslim fliers posted that the group had nothing to do with. Young America's Foundation chapter at GWU did not disseminate fliers that read "Hate Muslims? So Do We!!" even though the flier purported to have the group's moniker at the bottom. The flier went on to advertise an actual event on radical Islam that the group is sponsoring the end of October.

It's obvious to anyone with a moment's reflection that such fliers were created to fake an incident of hate where none exists, rather than contribute to a robust discussion regarding the threat of radical Islam. The bottom of the flier, for instance, spitefully reads "Brought to you by Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness…"

[T]he school is cuddling up with the local Islamic groups to denounce the drummed up incident of hate and force the Young America's Foundation chapter to sign a statement condemning hate speech…

GWU's ire is being directed in the wrong place. The University should be protecting the reputation of its students who were wrongfully maligned, rather than rewarding campus radicals who are always looking to suppress or distort conservative activism.

The Jawa Report concludes:

The University, with predictable disregard for all facts as the administration at Duke was during the non-rape case, rushed to threaten and condemn the Y.A.F. Predictably, the story was picked up on Islamic propaganda wires in order to spread the faux-outrage.

This bears repeating: THE Y.A.F. DIDN'T MAKE THE POSTERS, AND THE UNIVERSITY IS NONETHELESS THREATENING THEM.