Warning: Islamophobes May Be Coming To Your School!

[jinnzaman]

Assalamu alaikum

I was surprised and dismayed to learn that a conservative organization is hosting an event that will engage in Islam bashing at universities all over the country, including my alma mater. Perhaps in response to Islamic Awareness Week, the David Horowitz "Freedom" Center is promoting a "Stop Islamo-Fascism" Week.

According to their website, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week will feature:


Ø Memorial services for the victims of Islamic Terror both in America and around the globe.

Ø A Student petition denouncing Islamo-Fascist violence against women, gays, Christians, Jews and non-religious people.

Ø A Teach-In on “The Oppression of Women in Islam.”

Ø Sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments and campus Women’s Centers to protest their silence about the oppression of women in Islam.

Ø Prominent speakers against Islamo-Fascism such as Ayan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn, David Horowitz, Nonie Darwish, Christina Hoff Sommers, Phyllis Chesler, Frank Gaffney and Daniel Pipes.

Ø Documentary films about the Islamo-Fascist crusade against America, Israel and the West.

Ø 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.

This isn't the first time that they promoted these events, they did it in the past but it wasn't so widely advertised. At first, I thought these loonies would give up, but it seems that they've only become more determined to spread lies and rumors concerning our religion.

I think it would be prudent for Muslim Student Associations to network responses in anticipation of these events. After all, if their is a national organization coordinating a smear campaign against Islam, it only stands to reason that the response in defense of Islam should be a concerted national effort as well.

What I would advise is that people do not get angry or protest their events, but through a process of carefully constructed dialogue, engage them in argumentation with wisdom and forebearance. The focus of our response should be to discredit their movement and methods and promote Islam.

Below, you will find the e-mail I was forwarded by Br. Luqman. Please make sure that if your school is listed below that your MSA formulates a contingency plan to respond to these guys in a peaceful, fair, but decisive manner.

IGNORING THE PROBLEM WILL NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY!

May Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) grant us victory in this matter and all matters. Ameen.

masalama

A Student’s Guide to Hosting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
October 22-26, 2007

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.

The 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. Nothing could be more politically incorrect than to point this out. But nothing could be more important for American students to hear. In the face of the greatest danger Americans have ever confronted, the academic left has mobilized to create sympathy for the enemy and to fight anyone who rallies Americans to defend themselves. According to the academic left, anyone who links Islamic radicalism to the war on terror is an "Islamophobe." According to the academic left, the Islamo-fascists hate us not because we are tolerant and free, but because we are "oppressors."

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to oppose these lies and to rally American students to defend their country.

Download Complete Guide [PDF] [html]
Schools to date at which the David Horowitz Freedom Center will be organizing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks

1. Penn State
2. Temple University
3. Pace University
4. Arizona State University
5. UC Berkeley
6. George Mason University
7. Columbia University
8. Emory University
9. Georgia Tech University
10. UCLA
11. Dartmouth University
12. University of Rhode Island
13. American University
14. Northeastern University
15. Columbus State Community College
16. Depaul University
17. Bates College University of Miami
18. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
19. University of New Haven
20. George Washington University
21. University of Virginia
22. USC
23. Harvard University
24. Yale University
25. Cornell University
26. Princeton University
27. University of Pennsylvania
28. Brown University
29. Georgetown University
30. Stanford University
31. University of Washington
32. Ohio State University
33. Purdue University
34. Notre Dame University
35. University of Michigan – Dearborn
36. Wellesley
37. University of Pittsburgh
38. Dennison
39. Cal State Northridge
40. Duke University
41. University of Colorado, Boulder
42. Santa Ana College
43. Regent University
44. Bradley University
45. Drury University
46. Washington University in St. Louis
47. Indiana State University
48. SUNY New Paltz
49. University of Texas, Austin
50. Unity College
51. Roger Williams University
52. Lawrence University
53. University of Delaware
54. Loras College
55. The College of New Jersey
56. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
57. Broward Community College
58. Hampden-Sydney College
59. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
60. King’s College
61. Bloomsburg University
62. UNC Chapel Hill
63. UC Irvine
64. University of Arizona
65. Florida State University
66. BYU – Idaho
67. Liberty University
68. Clemson University
69. University of Maine – Farmington
70. University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
71. University of Alabama
72. Saint Francis University
73. Ohio State University
74. Drexel University
75. Dickinson College
76. Messiah College
77. Western New Mexico
78. University of Toledo
79. Furman University
80. UNC Greensboro
81. Franciscan University of Steubenville
82. UNC Charlotte
83. Rice University
84. Hillsdale College
85. Evangel University
86. Northern Arizona University
87. UNC Wilmington
88. Saint Anselm College
89. North Carolina State
90. Huntington University
91. Boise State University
92. University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
93. Kansas Wesleyan
94. Minneapolis Community and Technical College
95. Hanover College
96. University of Iowa
97. University of Texas – San Antonio
98. Williams College
99. Texas A&M
100. Palomar College
101. Trinity University
102. Brooklyn College
103. East Tennessee State University
104. Skyline College
105. Tulane University
106. Bucknell University
107. Southern Maine Community College
108. Washington State University
109. Cal State Fullerton
110. St. Mary's College of California
111. St. Louis University


Israel

1. Ben Gurion University
2. Haifa University

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism/49/a-students-/

[farah]

alhumdulillah, this isn't being hosted at my school. but i'm curious, i see a lot of schools on the list which islamicans attend. what's everyone doing to counter the events?

[giant24us]

our msa is planning to respond by holding a bunch of events on palestine.

[Aryan_]

Originally Posted by farah

alhumdulillah, this isn't being hosted at my school. but i'm curious, i see a lot of schools on the list which islamicans attend. what's everyone doing to counter the events?

You could arm wrestle them into submission.

[shadha]

I hope they don't fuel the flames and wild out in retaliation. Peaceful protests and events, pleeeaseee.


shadha-

[Wolfn]

Alhumdillah this isn't at my college. Seriously, what is their problem?