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James W. Wagner, President of Emory University, where the self-proclaimed proponents of free speech and free inquiry behaved like the fascist thugs they really are and shouted down David Horowitz last week, has apologized to the College Republicans for the disruption of the event they sponsored.
In the course of his apology, Wagner says this:
It is worth reminding ourselves and others, in this context, that Emory invites speakers to our campus primarily for the interest and enrichment of the campus community. We open our doors to others as a courtesy. One regrettable consequence of Wednesday night’s assault on free speech is our decision to restrict admission to Glenn Auditorium on Monday afternoon for a lecture by former Palestinian minister of higher education and research Hanan Ashrawi. Admission will be open only to persons with a valid college or university photo ID from Emory or elsewhere. In order to accommodate the interest of persons from the general community, an off-site video feed will be made available in White Hall 208.
Hey, thanks, Dr. Wagner. That's terrific. One speaker's address got disrupted, so you're taking extra precautions for the next speaker. Admirable foresight, sir!
Just a few questions: does your determination to make sure Hanan Ashrawi's speech goes off without disruption have anything to do with her status as an apologist for Palestinian jihad terror against Israel?
And aren't your precautions regarding her speech a suggestion that conservative students are likely to engage in the same fascist silencing tactics that the Emory student Leftists engaged in when they torpedoed Horowitz's speech?
Yet where and when have conservative students ever behaved in such a manner?
If you are really interested in free speech and free inquiry, as you say, wouldn't it make more sense not to trumpet your protections of Hanan Ashrawi, which are not needed in any case since Leftist and pro-jihad speakers are never in physical danger on college campuses, but to invite David Horowitz back to Emory and make sure he is allowed to speak without being shouted down by thugs?
Posted by Robert at October 30, 2007 10:20 AM
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Whats really sad is that Immadinner jacket gets a standing ovation and Horowitz gets shouted down. There is something seriously wrong with our universities.
Posted by: Elric66![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 30, 2007 10:38 AM
"... invite David Horowitz back ..."
That's the obvious way to let make the situation right. Why is this not happening?
Posted by: StillBreathing at October 30, 2007 10:42 AM
StillBreathing,
That would be the right thing to do. Perhaps a letter campaign would help.
Posted by: Elric66 at October 30, 2007 10:47 AM
James W. Wagner, President of Emory University . . . has apologized to the College Republicans for the disruption of the event they sponsored.
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Yeah, well, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau apoligized to counter-protesters for allowing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week to take place at all. He reluctantly said that "the university was obligated to let students express their views since Berkeley was the birthplace of free speech."
He told anti-anti-Islamofascists “You are doing the right thing” .
“My pride lies with Peace Not Prejudice (the name adopted by the coalition of counter-protesters) because they are conducting themselves in a dignified manner when they are being subjected to insult.”
The "dignified manner" is debatable, since it included jeering at IFAW speakers, attempting to drown them out and groundlessly accusing them of racism.
It is also unclear how they were "subjected to insult", unless they agree with the tenets of Islamofascism and hated to hear them slighted.
Posted by: gravenimage at October 30, 2007 11:42 AM
President Wagner of Emory is a dhimmified idiot.
Posted by: darcy at October 30, 2007 12:00 PM
This guy Wagner is obviously a Muslim and supports radical Islamists and jihad against the U.S. Unfortunately, he is very typical of the liberal/leftists creatures running the colleges of our country. These 'bolsheviks' want to overturn our system and live in socialism. If we're not careful to resist it, although it may be to late, we will be living in an entirely different country than we have now.
Posted by: countywolf at October 30, 2007 12:12 PM
Lots of Saudi money in the back pocket seems to be a sure way to turn any President into an Islamic apologist.
Posted by: Dsinc at October 30, 2007 1:19 PM
It is admissible to declare that from now on there will be greater precautionary measures taken at public lectures with controversial topics or speakers. What was not admissible was to specify the name of the speaker to whom this policy would apply, or rather, in so doing, the President of Emory has opened himself up to the charge that he is spatchcocking onto his apology to the College Republicans an entirely specious example of what is intended to be speech-disruptive equivalenace "by the other side." But there are no examples of islamochristians, defenders of the PLO, nor of Muslims, having their speeches disrupted anywhere on American campuses or, indeed, anywhere in the entire Infidel world. Not one.
Yet there are many examples of those who have attempted to analyze Islam, being shouted down, or otherwise having their speeches disrupted by deliberately noisy mass exits, or of announcements of speeches being torn down, or the speakers threatened with death, and so on. Does the President of Emory know why Ayaan Hirsi Ali had to come with several burly guards when she spoke at Harvard? Does he know wny Magdi Allam in Italy, an editor for the Corriere della Sera and a frequent guest on the RAI, has to have an armed guard? Does he know why Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, must do so, or others who need not be named? Does he know what happened to Nonie Darwish when she attempted to speak? Does he know what happens to any number of ex-Muslims whenever they dare to discuss Islam on American campuses?
Does he really believe that by invoking the example of Hanan Ashrawi and the presumed felt need to offer her the protection against disruption that the university failed to offer David Horowitz, he has successfully avoided a glaring and baseless moral equivalence that anyone in his morally right mind would have been careful to avoid?
Again, Jacques Barzun comes to mind. And Richard Weaver. And all those who, in days not so long ago, made American universities less of a laughing stock then they have become, despite their bulging endowments, to so many of their still-legitimate faculty members, and those students who have managed to keep their wits about them, despite the thin gruel of American education.
Posted by: Hugh at October 30, 2007 2:24 PM
"... former Palestinian minister of higher education and research..."
Sure, and Joseph Goebbels was chairman of NAZI Germany's Department of Comparative Literature.
Posted by: RalphInfidel at October 30, 2007 4:49 PM
No greater collection of wusses in America can be found than that of college and university presidents or chancellors. James W. Wagner (the timing of whose statement here is a bit suspicious) is no exception this rule.
Posted by: Wellington at October 30, 2007 5:13 PM
Make amends for not protecting an anti-Jihadist speaker by then protecting a 'Jihadist' speaker??
Do they teach elementary logic at Emory?
Its a bad joke. Do these people have zero sense of irony?
Posted by: poetcomic1 at October 30, 2007 6:28 PM
Wellington,
they're only wusses to their own islamicommie unholy alliance.
They're rabid to those who are not...and then some.
Case-in-point:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58426
different cause, but the same machinery of militancy.
at October 31, 2007 4:37 AM
Emory's failure to protect David Horowitz may be more than coincidence. The Carter Center (ex-president Carter) of Emory University is heavily funded with Middle East money. Carter's book accusing Israel of apartheid caused at least one Emory professor to resign. A former supporter Professor Alan Dershowitz has the story on the funding flowing to Emory's Carter Center from the Middle East. http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={14F14A6C-2BBE-439E-929A-425288DA09E4}
Emory is proud of its relationship with Carter, e.g., http://www.emory.edu/WELCOME/VirtualEmory/carter.html
From a recent news release:
Emory University is one of the nation's leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.
at October 31, 2007 1:35 PM
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