Saturday, December 5, 2009
Another courageous Arab woman (see also: Wafa Sultan), Nonie Darwish, has been having trouble on her latest speaking tours. First it was Princeton and Columbia, now, it's actual arson at Boston University: Arson Fire Started as Nonie Darwish Set to Speak at Boston University:
Dear Mrs. Darwish,
I just wanted to thank you for speaking at Boston University yesterday. I would like to apologize again for the confusion regarding the location of the event because of the fire. So far we know the fire was intentionally set in one of the bathrooms on the second floor of the building. It is still under investigation and I will let you know if any more updates come out. I was not the only person to think that the fire could have been set because you were scheduled to speak but I will inform you of any more developments. Once again thank you so much for coming toBoston University and I speak for everyone who attended the event when I say what you had to say was not only extremely important but a pleasure hearing.
Here is the link to the article that was written about the event:
See also at New English Review:
...When I spoke with Darwish last night, she said that as they were approaching the College of Arts and Sciences Building, the original site of last night's program they notice the fire apparatus. They were told by BU police at the scene that the building was closed and evacuated. Her CAMERA Campus talk was displaced to Hillel House also on the BU Campus, where she spoke to a limited audience.
Darwish remarked that during the past several months she had experienced the worst treatment in endeavoring to speak on college campuses since she started doing that in the wake of 9/11. She noted the disruptive Muslim Students at the Univesity of Seattle, as well as, the recent cancellation of speaking engagements at two Ivy League schools, Princeton and Columbia.
The University of Seattle event was harrowing. Darwish's talk was disrupted by a group of Muslim students lead by a faculty member, a Palestinian from Jordan, who accused her of insulting Muslims. Darwish soldiered on despite the accusations. After the talk she was approached by several Muslim students from Egypt, Palestine, the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, who thanked her for coming to speak and argued with fellow Muslim students, that their antics confirmed what she was talking about-invasion of free speech rights here in America...
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Interesting article
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091206/NEWS06/912060340/Is+Islam+a+threat+to+America
I think these insults to freedom, preventing people like Noni Darwish from speaking in peace, are outrageous.
Her father was a general in Egypt. Better than most she knows the toll of war.
Why are people so determined to shut her up?
Meanwhile, here we have "Troof to Power":
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/12/06/the-palestine-telegraph-speaking-troof-to-power/
the kind of baloney which would probably recieve standing ovations from the very people who try to shut up an Egyptian female with an independent mind.
Well, nobody can speak for Egyptian women or Syrian or Iranian or Sudanese women better than the women themselves.
So why are their messages considered "right wing" by people who SHOULD be interested in human rights? This amazes me! I have actually heard this and I think it's really wierd.
On the other hand we have people out there like Wier, Rense, Lauren Boothe - everybody from the fringes of the left to the neonazis happily spreading the worst blood libels and employing absurd parallels - inventing Zionist Plots - Boothe claims Gaza = Darfur.
It's just astonishing, beyond reason.
I don't get it.
Except, I do:(
Sophia,
Better than most she knows the toll of war.
and she knows Islam. So does Waffa Sultan.
So why are their messages considered "right wing" by people who SHOULD be interested in human rights?
Because the messages go against their agenda driven 'grain'. Because some people refuse to know and understand a culture and appraise the reality correctly in lieu of an adopted ideology.
That's why all the "women's rights" groups have uttered not a peep about the sad state of affairs of women under Islam, for example.
Because many people prefer to dream on instead of facing reality head on; it is too disconcerting to think of such things.
Don't forget the GREAT Hirsi Ali.
"everybody from the fringes of the left to the neonazis happily spreading the worst blood libels and employing absurd parallels - inventing Zionist Plots - Boothe claims Gaza = Darfur"
The extreme and not so extreme left and neo-nazi filth are all SOCIALISTS.
If we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
SHITler / Stalin (national SOCIALIST / Soviet SOCIALIST) Non-Aggression pact of 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact