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The Pen and the Sword: At URI, leftists make every week fascist week
Ryan Bilodeau
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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They begin by acknowledging our "stated support of women, gays, Christians, Jews and non-religious people," but go on to argue that "it is bigoted to assume that every Islamic culture is repressive to women," even though we never once argued the position they throw on us. After all, the week is called "Islamo-Fascists" for a reason: there are peaceful Muslims and there are Fascist Muslims.
The left cannot go one paragraph into their attack without smearing and spewing ad-hominem attacks. Stein and Faris then enlighten the College Republicans for two paragraphs, offering their applause for women's groups and quoting Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
What is puzzling is why the authors then quote Elie Weisel who "spoke at a URI commencement several years ago [and] reminded us that the opposite of intolerance is not tolerance, which is too narrow a concept. Rather the opposite of intolerance is respect."
If this and other arguments in their women's studies homily is a response to a week full of events aimed at making aware the intolerance Islamo-Fascists exemplify in targeting and killing people who do not share their ideology, then are Stein and Faris arguing that we should instead respect them? Although they will deny it, their argument is just that.
Stein and Faris author not a response to the week, but a manifesto to the campus: one that turns a blind eye to the atrocities at the hand of Islamo-Fascists and shines a limelight on their foolish and outdated leftist ideology. On the stage that is URI, Stein and Faris prove once again why they and the leftist ideologies for which they stand are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The events of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week are aimed at giving students a side of the story they do not hear in the classroom: one that should be frightening to us all. Instead of uniting as a campus, URI's cast of leftist all-stars choose to smear College Republicans, not the first group to use the word "Islamo-Fascists" when describing the sect of Islam whose members are bent upon killing you and me. Moderate Muslims in Algeria struggling to form a democratic society were the first to assign this label.
This week College Republicans are involved in a battle similar to what these Algerians were involved in, except ours exists on campus. Like Islamo-Fascists, a group of leftist faculty members and students are not willing to allow opinions or beliefs that are different from their own. Whereas Islamo-Fascists throw bombs, people like Wade, Stein and Faris throw venom in the form of smear and censorship. At the University of Rhode Island, Fascist Week is every week.
The left cannot go one paragraph into their attack without smearing and spewing ad-hominem attacks. Stein and Faris then enlighten the College Republicans for two paragraphs, offering their applause for women's groups and quoting Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
What is puzzling is why the authors then quote Elie Weisel who "spoke at a URI commencement several years ago [and] reminded us that the opposite of intolerance is not tolerance, which is too narrow a concept. Rather the opposite of intolerance is respect."
If this and other arguments in their women's studies homily is a response to a week full of events aimed at making aware the intolerance Islamo-Fascists exemplify in targeting and killing people who do not share their ideology, then are Stein and Faris arguing that we should instead respect them? Although they will deny it, their argument is just that.
Stein and Faris author not a response to the week, but a manifesto to the campus: one that turns a blind eye to the atrocities at the hand of Islamo-Fascists and shines a limelight on their foolish and outdated leftist ideology. On the stage that is URI, Stein and Faris prove once again why they and the leftist ideologies for which they stand are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The events of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week are aimed at giving students a side of the story they do not hear in the classroom: one that should be frightening to us all. Instead of uniting as a campus, URI's cast of leftist all-stars choose to smear College Republicans, not the first group to use the word "Islamo-Fascists" when describing the sect of Islam whose members are bent upon killing you and me. Moderate Muslims in Algeria struggling to form a democratic society were the first to assign this label.
This week College Republicans are involved in a battle similar to what these Algerians were involved in, except ours exists on campus. Like Islamo-Fascists, a group of leftist faculty members and students are not willing to allow opinions or beliefs that are different from their own. Whereas Islamo-Fascists throw bombs, people like Wade, Stein and Faris throw venom in the form of smear and censorship. At the University of Rhode Island, Fascist Week is every week.
