Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Must not Criticize Terrorists at Columbus State Community College

Mary Rose Oakar is a former Ohio congresswoman. We read:

"In early September, Mary Rose Oakar sent a letter to Columbus State President Valeriana Moeller (vmoeller@cscc.edu) on behalf of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) encouraging the censorship of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week events to be held later this month sponsored by the Terrorism Awareness Project student group. Columbus State is just one of dozens of universities and colleges that will be hosting such events. In a bold move of Orwellian irony, ADC bills itself as a "civil rights organization".

In an email to TAP student leaders, CSCC administrator Timeka Rashid appealed to Oakar's letter as the grounds for her denial of the group's posting fliers advertising their Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week events. At this time, it still is unknown whether Rashid solicited Oakar's letter as a pretext to censor the TAP, or whether ADC is behind a nationwide push to censor anti-terror student groups. That notwithstanding, this is an unmistakable effort by Mary Rose Oakar and the Columbus State administration to deny these students their civil rights..... the real issue Oakar is concerned with is students challenging the pro-Palestinian terrorist orthodoxy on college campuses - an orthodoxy that Columbus State apparently is desperate to protect.

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