George Santayana’s best known quip has long been a cliché: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The organizers of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at George Washington University could want nothing less.
IFAW kicks off next week at the D.C.-area campus. This peaceful event, sponsored nationally by the Terrorism Awareness Project and implemented at GWU by Young America’s Foundation, has been carefully targeted both years as a criticism of radical Islam, and student leaders have emphasized this is a comparatively small movement not to be identified with the religion of Islam itself. But last year, campus leftists spread racist posters across campus in their name, which got campus conservatives reviled by their peers and by the administration alike for spreading “hate speech.”
Last October 8, two weeks before Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) was to be held, seven left-wing students plastered campus with fliers purportedly from the week’s founders that read, “Hate Muslims? So Do We!!!” Before YAF had advertized the event, campus radicals had defined it, and its student sponsors, as hateful. Read more ...
IFAW kicks off next week at the D.C.-area campus. This peaceful event, sponsored nationally by the Terrorism Awareness Project and implemented at GWU by Young America’s Foundation, has been carefully targeted both years as a criticism of radical Islam, and student leaders have emphasized this is a comparatively small movement not to be identified with the religion of Islam itself. But last year, campus leftists spread racist posters across campus in their name, which got campus conservatives reviled by their peers and by the administration alike for spreading “hate speech.”
Last October 8, two weeks before Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) was to be held, seven left-wing students plastered campus with fliers purportedly from the week’s founders that read, “Hate Muslims? So Do We!!!” Before YAF had advertized the event, campus radicals had defined it, and its student sponsors, as hateful. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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