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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: "Nation-wide Week of Campus 'Obsession' Screenings" |
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I wish I could manage to stay on top of all the efforts underway to combat the scourge of Islamo-fascism, but this documentary and David Horowitz's initiative escaped me.
From Phil Orenstein at "Democracy Project", a heads-up...
| Quote: | April 15, 2007
Nation-wide Week of Campus “Obsession” Screenings
Pace University will be screening the milestone documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” on campus, April 18th. The event, sponsored by Pace Hillel, will include a speaker from Obsessionthemovie.com and an open forum with a question and answer session following the movie. Pace University is participating in the nation-wide Obsession screening event designated as Islamo-Fascism Awareness Day by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Dozens of colleges across the nation will be showing the film this week as part of the center’s new program, the Terrorism Awareness Project, in order to awaken students and faculty to the gravity of the threat of radical Islam to our nation and civilization.
The event is primarily for students and faculty but is open to the public as well. Pace Hillel President Michael Abdurakhmanov mentioned that he would enjoy seeing local outside support, and asked me to spread the word, so I am writing this as an announcement of the event to readers, colleagues and local media. No RSVP is required, but since seating is limited to 130, and appropriate security will be in place, people interested in attending should arrive early to guarantee a seat. Event information is as follows:
Pace University
1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038
1-800-874-PACE
Entrance: Spruce Street - use the side gate entrance to walk through security and up to the second floor, Lecture Hall South. There will be signs.
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Copies of the film and refreshments will be available for free
Democracy Project - cont'd |
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Me#1You#10
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Were I asked to name 2 organizations "on the point" relating to issues of concern to this forum, one would be the VVLF and the other would be...ANYTHING associated with the name David Horowitz. From Front Page Magazine to The David Horowitz Freedom Center to Discover the Network to Students for Academic Freedom and much much more, Mr. Horowitz is a whirlwind of conservative activism and decidedly worthy of our support.
From an e-mail today...
| Quote: | Conservative Students Join in Nationwide Demonstration Against Islamic Fascism
April 20, 2007
In one of the most extensive demonstrations ever staged by American college conservatives, close to one hundred university and college campuses across the country yesterday held an "Islamo Fascism Awareness Day." Thousands of students were involved in the event, which was coordinated by the Terrorism Awareness Project, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center whose objective is to counter college students' lack of awareness about the War on Terror and the disinformation about it propagated by radical faculty and student groups.
A total of 96 colleges and universities, including Pace University, Columbia, Duke, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Purdue, Ohio State, Alabama, Colorado and other prominent schools, together with three high schools and two military bases, marked the event by showing Obsession, a documentary film using materials from Arab TV rarely seen in the West and interviews with authorities on Middle East politics, former jihadists, and experts on terrorism to take the viewer inside the worldview radical Islam and its plans for world domination.
Freedom Center President David Horowitz said that the event represented a clear challenge to faculty and administrators who, in the name of political correctness, have sought to shut down debate about Islamic extremism: "The simultaneous showing of a film exposing the Islamist threat at nearly 100 universities is a tremendous victory for the forces of freedom and for intellectual diversity, which are now under attack."
Reports from many of the participating schools gave a sense of the success of the event. Ryan McCool, Chairman of the College Republicans at Temple University commented after the showing that "the student who participated left with a better understanding of the evil that exists in the world." And Harrison Sontag, a student at Dartmouth who coordinated the event there, said, "Everyone was completely blown away by the film. Many had no idea exactly how large and credible a threat our enemy is."
But on some campuses, students attempting to present this program about the nature of radical Islam complained about being pressured, and in some cases openly harassed, to cancel the eventintimidation, they said, that proved exactly how necessary the Terrorism Awareness Project is. Josiah Lanning, a student at Ohio's Columbus State Community College, recounted how, when he was filling out the paperwork for the event, the school's activities center required him to "tone down" his proposed flyer for the showing of Obsession because it referred to Hezbollah and similar groups as terrorist organizations, Lanning was next told to suspend the film until further notice because of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Only after he appealed to the dean of students at the college was Lanning finally permitted to proceed with the showing.
Carl Soderberg, chair of the University of New Haven's College Republicans chapter, encountered similar resistance: "There were some faculty members who pressured me to postpone the film until they could find someone who could properly frame the issue,'" he says. But he went forward, and the film was shown to some 50 students and faculty. For Soderberg the outcome was worth the difficulty: "The point of the film was to raise awareness about a problem that many have stopped thinking about in the last five and a half years, and the best place to do that is on a college campus."
Ruth Malhotra, a student at Georgia Tech and a member of the school's College Republicans chapter, had perhaps the most difficult time. Among the hurdles erected by the school, Malhotra faced interference by opposed faculty and school administrators, boycotts and counter-demonstrations from left-wing student groups -- and even death threats designed to prevent the screening. Given day long police protection as she presented Obsession on the Tech campus, Malhotra observed: "It's important for students to know that violent Islamic extremism does pose a threat to our way of life, and to challenge that threat we have to understand what it is we're up against."
Stephen Miller, a senior at Duke University and national coordinator of the Terrorism Awareness Project, summed up the meaning of the historic, day-long experience: "Islamo Fascism Awareness Day is necessary because of the denial and ignorance about terrorism on the part of many students," says "These factors, combined with the unholy alliance between anti American and pro jihad groups on many campuses has made for a lethal combination. We're in a fight for survival and many students are on the sidelines."
Contact: Missy Woodward (800) 752-6562 x213
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on edit: Let's make that 3. I would be remiss not to acknowledge the continuing efforts of Scott Swett and Wintersoldier.com to right the slander of our Vietnam era veterans.
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Horowitz is an amazing person and definitely deserving of our support.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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I agree...nothing like a converted ex-leftie wacko to know where the jugular is on all his old friends from the past....now if we could just convert a few more!
Yep you have to give him credit for noticing that the left still hasn't accepted the fact that Islamowackos declared war on them too!!!
Deuce
If an Islamowacko cuts off the head of a Liberal
does it bleed more or less than the head of a
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