Here we have yet another case where an honest discussion is shut down because Muslim groups demanded it be shut down. There are some constants that lead to cowardice in these cases: “demands” that speech they don’t agree with be squelched, while it’s deemed quite appropriate for other Muslim groups to publicly call for the downfall of America.

Why do our colleges (and other entities) always succumb to the demands of Muslims?

Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton University last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus.

Arab Society president Sami Yabroudi and former president Sarah Mousa issued a joint statement, claiming: “Nonie Darwish is to Arabs and Muslims what Ku Klux Klan members, skinheads and neo-Nazis are to other minorities, and we decided that the role of her talk in the logical, intellectual discourse espoused by Princeton University needed to be questioned.”

If anything, Muslims are quite aligned with the progressive left. The abhor and squelch speech they don’t agree with, and love to use minorities to make their arguments, while doing very little to lift the oppressed minorities used.

If you check out the self-imposed Princeton University-wide Conduct Regulations, I can’t see how anyone could ever openly speak there.

Princeton University strives to be an intellectual and residential community in which all members can participate fully and equally, in an atmosphere free from all manifestations of bias and from all forms of harassment, exploitation, or intimidation. As an intellectual community, it attaches great value to freedom of expression and vigorous debate, but it also attaches great importance to mutual respect, and it deplores expressions of hatred directed against any individual or group. The University seeks to promote the full inclusion of all members and groups in every aspect of University life.

And we all know that freedom of expression is seldom squelched when it comes to the left protesting people who have the nerve to disagree (hate) with them.

Ask Tom Tancredo how that works (courtesy of the University of North Carolina)…

THIS is the kind of free speech taught in schools today. Intolerance for views contrary to the liberal view, thus almost every college admission statement celebrating an atmosphere that invites the free expression of ideas (or similar verbiage) is bullshit, and all college is about today is breeding little liberals unable to see right from wrong (judging).

Columbia and Princeton, thanks.

h/t Pam Geller

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