Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week

Beginning on October 22, student groups across the nation will hold Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on their campuses. These protest weeks will feature a series of events designed to bring a message to these academic communities that challenges most of what students are taught about the so-called War on Terror both in the classroom and on the quad.

The Week’s events will include speeches about Islamo-Fascism by prominent figures, including former Senator Rick Santorum (Penn State, Temple and UPenn), Sean Hannity (Columbia), Ann Coulter (Tulane and USC), Dennis Prager (UC Santa Barbara), Robert Spencer (Brown, Dartmouth, University of Rhode Island, and DePaul), Daniel Pipes (Northeastern and UPenn), David Horowitz (Columbia, Emory, Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin), Michael Ledeen (Maryland), Nonie Darwish (UCLA and Berkeley), Wafa Sultan (Stanford) and radio talk show hosts Melanie Morgan (San Francisco State), Michael Medved (University of Washington), Martha Zoeller (Georgia Tech), Alan Nathan (George Mason), Mark Larson (to be named) and many others.

A major theme of the Week will be the oppression of women in Islam. The photo accompanying this article, which shows a teenage girl buried before being stoned to death for alleged sexual offenses, will serve as the poster for the protest Week. The stoning took place in Iran.

The plight of Muslim women will be featured at “teach-in” panels and also at sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments, designed to protest the absence of courses that focus on Islamic gynophobia. The silence of Women’s Studies departments in the face of this oppression is a national outrage. College students are offered the opportunity to study the “oppression” of women in Boston and Beverly Hills in hundreds of Women’s Studies courses across America. But there is not a single course we are aware of that addresses the real oppression of women in Teheran and Riyadh. In Saudi Arabia, to take one horrendous example, Saudi police recently shot to death schoolgirls who were fleeing a burning building without their veils. Better that they should be dead than seen. A pamphlet on the subject of women’s oppression in Islam, written by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler will be distributed on campuses (and posted on Frontpage next week), along with a petition protesting the campus blackout of this issue.

Many campuses will show the uncut version of the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, which has been suppressed by ABC under pressure from the Clintons in order to help Hilary’s presidential run. This is the most spectacular episode of political censorship in recent memory. It is also relatively unreported, although the Los Angeles Times carried an informative story which you can read here. The Path to 9/11 was a film that cost $40 million to make and was seen by 28 million viewers, yet ABC has refused to release the DVD. Other films being shown during the Week are Obsession, Suicide Killers, Islam: What the West Needs to Know, Islam v. Islam and Chris Burgard’s Border.

The purpose of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is as simple as it is critical: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the "war on terror" and that global warming is a greater danger to Americans than global jihad and Islamic supremacism.

Nothing could be more politically incorrect than to point out these unpleasant facts. But nothing could be more important for American students to hear. In the face of the greatest danger Americans have ever confronted, the academic left has mobilized to create sympathy for the enemy and to fight anyone who rallies Americans to defend themselves.

Already, CAIR and the Muslim Students Association -- which are fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas -- are planning to hold counter- demonstrations during the Week called “Peace Not Prejudice.” Since the Islamic radicals whom these organizations represent and defend are among the most prejudiced people on earth, and since their own sponsoring organizations, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, have declared a global war against the West, this can only be regarded as high-order satire. The Muslim Students Association is welcome to sign our petition denouncing Islamo-Fascism and defending the dignity of all individuals, infidels included. It can be accessed here.

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a protest against the censorship that has come to America, and whose chief enforcer is the progressive left. Anyone who links Islamic radicalism to the terrorist campaigns that are being waged against America, Europe and Israel and against non-radical Muslims in places such as Darfur, is automatically labeled an “Islamophobe.” It is by this means that the enemy seeks to paralyze the defenses of its intended victims. The progressive left is the enabler and abettor of the terrorist jihad. It has forged an “unholy alliance” with the most retrograde and reactionary forces in the world today. The institutional base of the left is the university system, from whose classrooms it is conducting a behind-the-lines psychological warfare campaign against its own countrymen and the democratic, secular and tolerant society they have created. It is time for Americans to rally in their own defense and answer the corrosive lies and libels whose goal is to sap their will to fight. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is the beginning of that answer and the first line of that defense.

David Horowitz

Students interested in organizing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks on their campuses, and students seeking help obtaining speakers and literature should contact Jeffrey@horowitzfreedomcenter.org. Information about Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, including petitions, pamphlets, information about films is available at www.terrorismawareness.org. A list of campuses holding events can be found here. A calendar of events can be located here.

Radio talk show hosts willing to speak at their local campuses should contact sara@horowitzfreedomcenter.org

Oct. 4, 2007, 10:24PM
Immigration strategies taking shape

By JULIE MASON
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

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In separate rooms on overlapping morning hours at the National Press Club this week, two very different groups were launching the next rounds in the simmering immigration fight.

In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization released a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says.

"Immigration is in a state of anarchy," organization member James Walsh, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer, fervently told the room. "Not chaos, anarchy."

Two doors down in the Murrow Room, named for American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the Spanish-language network Telemundo debuted a series of upbeat public service announcements urging their audience to register and vote.

News anchor Jose Diaz-Balart said Telemundo wants to leverage the passion from last year's immigration rallies into a stronger turnout among Latinos, who historically vote at disproportionately low rates.

"Hispanics in the U.S. will now have a way to channel all that frustration and do some good," Diaz-Balart said.

Whether the two groups were aware of each other, neither side let on. But each represents emerging new strategies stirring out of the void left by the failure of immigration reform.

The population group from California believes its more alarming population figures, which are not credited or supported by other independent research, will result in tougher policies on immigration.

Result of mistrust

Diana Hull, a behavioral scientist and former Houstonian who is president of Californians for Population Stabilization, said the federal government's alleged undercount of illegal immigrants is partly the result of mistrust.
"We have a very large group of people who don't have the same feeling about responding to legitimate questions from their government," Hull said.

For example, she said, large numbers of illegal immigrants living in a single house may not tell a census-taker how many people are really living there.

"The fact of the matter is they don't answer the question," she said.

The population figure presented by the group was tabulated by Fred Elbel, a computer specialist and anti-immigration activist from Colorado. The Social Contract Press, which published his report, also publishes racist works, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Around the corner at the Telemundo event, cheery VJ "Crash" had her own statistic that would no doubt alarm the population stabilization group in the Zenger room.

She said 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 in this country every month, and not enough are registering to vote.

"I am super-excited for this upcoming election, and I really feel like this time we are going to make a difference," Crash said.

Added Alfredo Richard, senior vice president of communications and talent development for the network, "It's not enough to grow in numbers, but to gain in political strength."

julie.mason@chron.com

Rare Iranian Protest Targets Ahmadinejad

Oct 8 09:58 AM US/Eastern
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" and scuffling with hardline students at Tehran University.

Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of "death to the dictator" and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said.

The protesters scuffled with hardline students who were chanting "thank you president" while police looked on from outside the university gates. The protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus.

Students were once the main power base of Iran's reform movement but have faced intense pressure in recent years from Ahmadinejad's hardline government, making anti-government protests rare.

The president faced a similar outburst during a speech last December when students at Amir Kabir Technical University called Ahmadinejad a dictator and set fire to his picture.

Hoping to avoid a similar disturbance Monday, organizers imposed tight security measures, checking the identity papers of all students entering the university and allowing only selected students into the hall. But the protesters were somehow able to gain entrance.

Iran's reform movement peaked in the late 1990s after former reformist president Mohammad Khatami was elected and his supporters swept parliament. But hardliners who control the judiciary, security forces and powerful unelected bodies in the government stymied attempts to ease social and political restrictions.

Numerous pro-reform newspapers were shut down, and since Ahmadinejad's election in 2005, those that remain have been muted in their criticism fearing closure.

At universities, pro-reform students have been marginalized, holding low-level meetings. They hold occasional demonstrations, usually to demand better school facilities or the release of detained colleagues. But pro-government student groups have grown more powerful.

People gravitate towards one thing, a better life. It’s pretty simple.

In the African nation of Chad, the Chinese are laying groundwork for their national needs of resources and labor. New roads, are showing up in Chad, along with cheap Chinese goods. Now Chadian’s are putting their focus on China as the place to go because of the opportunity and ease of going there.

Much like many Mexican’s head north because of opportunity and a better life, the Chadian’s are heading to China for trade and opportunity of a better life with easy access into and out of that country.

How much easier would be for Mexican’s who had legal ‘guest worker’ access and ability to move between the two nations?

We might learn something from the Chinese.

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Struggling Chadians Dream Of a Better Life -- in China
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 6, 2007; A17

ABECHE, Chad -- It was midmorning in one of the poorest countries on earth, and the daily traffic of battered trucks, motorcycles and donkeys bounced along the lumpy sand streets of this hot desert town.

Behind the white archways of the old colonial market, Abdulkarim Mahamat, 24, was selling soap and batteries to the few customers who dropped by. Things were rather slow, and the young man explained how he often imagines himself elsewhere -- flying off to a promising new land of cheap socks and smoothly paved roads.

"If I can go to China, life will be better than it is now," he said, adding that he has started saving up for his ticket. "I'll make a lot of money, and life will change. I can return to school, build a nice house and have a family. People say that China is a good place and everything is cheap."

As resource-hungry China cultivates relationships with countries across Africa -- most recently here, for oil -- African leaders are debating the merits of that growing influence. Skeptics are troubled, for instance, by China's role in enabling governments such as Sudan's, which is accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of violence in its western Darfur region.

But as that debate goes on, something less tangible is happening on the ground, even in this remote, conflict-ridden region where electricity and plumbing are still luxuries:

The idea of China as a symbol of potential prosperity is taking hold, seeping into the consciousness of ordinary Africans and occupying a place that the United States, and to some extent European countries, once claimed.

Around here, the American dream is something quaint and unrealistic, while a new kind of Chinese dream, more pragmatic and attainable, seems ascendant.

"The United States is a nice place to visit," said Ahmet Mohamet Ali, a trader who had just returned from his first trip to China. "China is a place to do business."

Besides massive road projects, oil contracts and other deals China has struck across the continent, there are smaller signs that the country is beginning to penetrate African societies.

On Fridays in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, for instance, a reliable line forms at the gates of the Chinese Embassy's visa section.

In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, it is relatively easy to find university students heading off to China for business or language courses.

Rebels in Ethiopia's Ogaden region deemed China's influence significant enough to target a Chinese-run oil facility there this year.

Here in landlocked Chad, the notion of China is still rather nascent, as the government only last year fulfilled China's prerequisite for doing serious business, recognizing China and severing ties with its rival, Taiwan.

Since then, huge oil exploration projects have gotten underway, and Chinese money has flowed into government coffers, leaving some Chadians wondering whether they will benefit from the new wealth.

At the same time, a kind of excitement and curiosity about China has trickled down.

In the run-down capital of N'Djamena, where the French colonial past lingers in faded streets signs such as Rue Charles de Gaulle, just about anything new is Chinese. There is a bright red Chinese restaurant that seems discordant amid the crumbling beige buildings, and a Chinese-run hotel.

Here and there, Chadians have been hired by Chinese companies, leading to their first, awkward encounters with a foreign culture.

They eat dogs and snakes," said Mustafa Mohamed, who worked a two-way radio for a Chinese oil company, taking lunch orders. "They are strange people."
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Mohamed eventually met some Chinese businesspeople, though, and is now pinning his hopes on exporting precious stones to China. He walks around with a notebook, the words "Great Stones" underlined on a page with potential prices listed.

Here in Abeche, there are no Chinese companies yet, no Chinese television channels or news broadcasts, as there are in larger African cities from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Accra, Ghana.

But shops are piled high with Chinese-made artificial flowers, baby clothes, pots and pans and the ubiquitous rubber sandals. And word about China has quickly spread as a few people who have traveled there return with stories like triumphant explorers.

"When you go there, they welcome you and help you with your hotel," said Mahamat, offering one well-honed story floating around the street.

"I hear it's a long journey -- 17 hours and very risky," said his brother, Ali Mohamed Zarouk, who is hoping to go, too. "I've never seen China, but I know about life in China. I have many friends there, and I know that they give an open chance to African people."

The idea of heading off to China has even become something of a fad, according to three young men who were sitting in front of Mahamat's shop, discussing the best routes and airline ticket prices.

"It's $5,000!" one said. "My friend told me."

"It's $6,000," another said.

"No, it's $3,000," a third said, adding a thumbs-up gesture: "There is no problem in China."

Would-be businesspeople are now counting down the days until the new Chinese Embassy opens in N'Djamena and, presumably with it, the chance to get a coveted visa.

"It will be in seven months," said Ismail Ibrahim Adam, 39, who works as a food supplier for the Chadian army.

He was sitting in his walled compound, behind a Chinese-made faux mahogany desk, a Chinese-made fan whirling overhead and Chinese-made sconces on the wall.

His desk was scattered with several glossy brochures from a Chinese furniture company.

"If you have successful work, surpassing ability and noble dignity," one read in English, "you should have a corresponding office furniture to add much flavor to style yourself."

"I will show this to people," Adam said confidently. "And if I can get a contract, I will bring the furniture to Chad."

His first and only trip to China was two years ago, after friends told him of the possibilities there.

In N'Djamena, Adam boarded a plane for Hong Kong, where he got a visa at the airport. "When I said I was from Africa, they gave it to me easily," he said.

From the Hong Kong airport, he took a train to Guangzhou, China, a sprawling high-rise city of more than 8 million people that Adam described as "so big and fine."

"It had big buildings and good roads," he said, adding that what struck him most, coming from a place where collisions between donkey carts and trucks are common, was the orderly traffic flow.

"I was there for two weeks and I did not see a single accident," he marveled. "The people are so well organized."

During his trip, Adam saw many Africans, he said, from Congo, Senegal, Mali and Cameroon. There were roadside food stands run by Africans. He ate dinner a few times with a Chadian couple who lived there. And the several hundred cellphones he brought back to Abeche sold quickly.

"In 2008, I will go again," he said, explaining that if he makes enough money, he intends to build clothing factories in Abeche.

Adam and others said they do not dream anymore of heading to the United States or Europe, an idea that seems as remote these days as going to China once did.

"There is a problem with the U.S.," said Ali, the trader. "Everything is too expensive and complicated."

He was unloading cardboard boxes full of gold-rimmed goblets and teacups.

"I think I'd like to open an office in China," he mused, "spend one month there and come back to Chad. In China, I can make my life better. Everything there is easy."

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 100,000 U.S. troops could return home from Iraq by the end of 2008, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in an interview aired on Sunday although he proposed that several American military bases stay in Iraq.

Speaking on CNN television, Talabani envisioned faster U.S. troop reductions than U.S. commanders have discussed in public. But he stressed that the pace of withdrawal was up to those commanders and did not explain why he foresaw a faster pullout.

"I think it is possible at the end of the next year that a big part of the American Army will be back here," said Talabani, who gave the interview during a trip to the United States. "More than 100,000 (troops) can be back by the end of the next year."

But Talabani, a Kurd and former guerrilla leader who fought Saddam Hussein, said he was not pushing for an independent Kurdistan in Iraq's North, because neighboring countries would never agree to it.

He also expressed confidence in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, an Arab from the Shi'ite Muslim majority, saying Maliki was not personally corrupt despite allegations of widespread corruption in his government. "He is a clean man," Talabani said.

The United States currently has about 165,000 troops in Iraq. Under pressure from opposition Democrats and some senior Republicans for big cuts in troops, President George W. Bush last month approved a plan from his top commander in Iraq to gradually reduce the U.S. force by 20,000 to 30,000 by mid-2008.

Pentagon chief Robert Gates says he hopes for cuts of around 20,000 more troops by January 2009, when the next president will take office. But even if that happens, the pullouts would add up to only about half the number Talabani is saying could leave in the same period of time.

Talabani said that the United States could start significant reductions of its forces in Iraq next spring. He proposed three U.S. military bases remain after most of the Americans are gone -- in the north, south and middle of Iraq.

U.S. BASES "FOR A WHILE"

Small numbers of U.S. soldiers would stay behind "for training and for the stability of Iraq, and preventing our neighbors from interfering" in Iraq's affairs, he said.

Talabani declined to describe these as permanent bases, saying only that they should stay "for a while."

The Bush administration denies seeking permanent bases in Iraq. But Gates has spoken of having a reduced presence there for a "prolonged" period of time, as the United States has had for decades in Korea and Germany.

Talabani said it was in Kurdish interests to be part of a democratic, federal Iraq -- not an independent Kurdish state, which would be landlocked and face hostility from neighbors with Kurdish minorities. "There is no possibility of having independent Kurdistan for many reasons," he said.

"Let us imagine that Kurdistan declares independence. Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, they then send arms to fight that, but close the border, how we can leave? ... This is impossible," he said. The northern Kurdish region is home to about 5 million of Iraq's 26 million people.

Talabani favored a resolution passed recently by the U.S. Senate calling for a weak central government in Baghdad and strong regional governments. The resolution provoked a storm of protest from many other Iraqi politicians, including Maliki.