Monday, October 22nd 2007
IFAW attracts opposition; prepares for the fireworks
The IFAW, or Islamo-fascism Awareness Week is sure attracting a lot of attention and opposition. My friend in Alabama had even heard of the counter-efforts going on and reminded me to bring a video camera. Here’s an update of some of the events:
Tonight, Nonie Darwish is speaking at 7pm in 10 Evans. It’s open to anyone, and free, but be advised no large bags or or signs will be allowed in, although there will be a space set aside to leave them safely.
Various members of the media will be in attendance, including (I have been informed) Al-Jazeera.
The opposition is holding a series of events called “Peace not Prejudice” and can be seen around campus in their green shirts.
This is a diverse crowd, containing members of the MSA, the SJP, and my old arabic professor.
Here’s another image of the stylish shirts. Green is assumed to be used here in the islamic context, not just because it’s a nice color. Recall the coloration of the Empire State building for Eid-al-fitr, the end of Ramadan.
Also created (likely those over at Revolution Books) is a poster adversiting the week’s counter-festivities, and it’s fairly interesting. Although not on par with the inflamatory posters over at GWU, it does take the typical crack at the CR’s hosting.
This poster wants opposition members to “expose and defeat” IFAW, which is disturbing, because the event is specifically for “Awareness”. It’s not a promotion of anything but education and is happening in order to bring in new perspectives, so “defeating” awareness sounds like supression of expression to me. How would the Berkeley community react if sexual-harassment awareness was called to be defeated, or awareness about racism?
Aside from this is the poster’s graphic:
It shows a crowd of who I presume to be Hitler Youth set on a college campus, it is tantamount to suggesting that CR’s (indeed anyone who opposes them) are fascist sychophants. Our campus, and indeed most, are predominantly liberal, and the idea that conservative youth are “an ice sheet spreading across campuses” and suppressing liberal values on American campuses is silly and patently false.
However, this is what they want to convey:
The panel “what about US fascism?” is claiming just that. Speaking on behalf of this cause is author Larry Everest, Robert Hernandez, and a video statement from Noam Chomsky.
Tonight is going to be a lot of crazy fun, and I encourage people to come see. I’m going to try to live-blog the event, and at the very least I will be taking photos.
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so the point of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is to make sure the people of Berkeley are aware that theres a small minority of terrorist networks that want to attack us. and the point of the counter Peace week is to make sure the people of Berkeley are aware of the positive things Islam has contributed to society.
nah, the point is to call the other side “fascist.” which contributes a lot to student life and education.
well, at least we dont settle our differences with guns. and we live in a society that can afford to waste time, money, and resoucres on this stuff. im grateful for that and thats the positive i take away from this week
Comment by anonymous — 10/22/2007 @ 1:29 pm
“well, at least we dont settle our differences with guns.”
Not yet, at least. However, the left is becoming much more militant - slashing tires, throwing bricks, smashing windows, and I believe there was an incident where a “peace-loving” liberal shot a Republican, just for fun. The level of rhetoric needs to calm down a bit, or else we could be seeing the beginnings of another civil war.
Comment by jdawg — 10/22/2007 @ 2:35 pm
Anonymous wrote:
So the point of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is to make sure the people of Berkeley are aware that theres a small minority of terrorist networks that want to attack us
Yes, and that “small minority” certainly does good work for the peoples of the world.
Comment by Eris — 10/22/2007 @ 3:15 pm
“this reactionary offensive”
They all talk like that, don’t they?
Comment by chris rune — 10/22/2007 @ 3:25 pm
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All I have to say is…Revolutionary Books is the most outrageous book store I’ve ever been to. I enjoy analyzing/observing from different perspectives, but that store is a black hole for any kind of academic thought.
How people still even let them on campus or even listen to them, is beyond me.
Comment by Anon. — 10/22/2007 @ 4:43 pm
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The Fascists are commonly described as “ communitarian.” The Communists are commonly described as communitarian. This is opposed to individualism of liberalist democracies. So one Fascist side is calling the other Fascist and they both fall into the ditch. Fascism etymological origins are in the concept of tying everything into a bundle, this centralizing the whole into one form of thought and motive. Fascism is ultimately argued as a set of unifying principles that can be benevolent or perceived as unbenevolent. But the fact, is there is no correct answer to what is right or what is wrong.
Usama bin Laden constantly calls on all the people of Islam to Unify, which is come under a communitarian agreement and fight the west. That is fascism. The Democrats want to centralize government programs to the jurisdiction of the Federal level – that is Fascism. Fascism is just centralizing anything and everything into to a center and the perimeters are tied connectively to the center in what is called communitarian. So Hillary is, under the true definition of Fascism, a Fascist, when she promotes Federalized Healthcare. When the Democrats calls for centralized Federal taxes on anything, they are promoting Fascism – Democrats do run Fascist programs. “Race theory” was started by Karl Marx, not the first Fascists, the Italians who had coined the word to “identify” the unity of their homeland that was invaded, conquered, and controlled by France, Spain and Austria since the Italian Renaissance Period. It only meant “ uniting” as in uniting in nationalism to oust the occupiers. When it took on its government ideology, it was connotatively argued as a “ centralized” spirit of communitarianism. Anything centralized, and placed under some myth and spirit is Fascism. The Democrats have a myth that if one centralizes all Federal programs, tax everyone to the hilt—then the state will automatically become prosperous, moral, just, wealthy, and ideal. Therefore, as Fascists, the Democrats believe their form of it will be universally the correct form.
Comment by berzzzerkeley — 10/22/2007 @ 7:45 pm
Hmm. Some intellectual sloth implicit in the above.
What if one of those “sides” is right?
Comment by Uncle Ralph — 10/22/2007 @ 10:12 pm
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Blackfive attended Horowitz lecture and offers play-by-play.
Comment by Terp Mole — 10/23/2007 @ 7:53 am
Anonymous writes above…..
“so the point of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is to make sure the people of Berkeley are aware that theres a small minority of terrorist networks that want to attack us.
When 19 can take out 3,000 in 2 hours we have a problem.
If only 1% of Muslims are extremists, we have a very BIG problem. Why is the left so dense?
Comment by Tessa — 10/23/2007 @ 10:06 am
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If none of the 9/11 terrorists were from there, why did we attack Iraq? Why are college Republicans so dense? Why does Bush’s Iraq policy make me question whether the commander-in-chief has a functioning brain stem?
Comment by jonp72 — 10/24/2007 @ 9:31 pm
By that logic, Jon, you would not have supported a declaration of war against Nazi German, since they had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.
Comment by A Quinio — 10/25/2007 @ 12:47 am
Andrew, in World War II, Germany declared war against the United States first. That was not the case in Iraq.
Comment by jonp72 — 10/25/2007 @ 6:23 am
This is a war on terror not a war on Iraq.
Comment by anon-a-mouse — 10/25/2007 @ 4:53 pm
This is a war on terror not a war on Iraq.
If it is a war on terror, does that mean you have the right to just aim a dart at the globe and invade whatever country it lands on? Iraq did not attack us, dilrod. It did not have al-Qaeda operating in its borders before the hijackings, according to the bipartisan 9/11 commission. Instead, we invade Iraq, completely destroy any civil society that existed there, foment lawlessness all over the place, AND then al-Qaeda moves into Iraq where they couldn’t get a foothold before.
You can’t just declare war on an abstract noun, and then go attacking your neighbors randomly, because you think that will make you feel less fearful. You campus Republicans are a bunch of scared, frightened, little, small-minded bedwetters who are too lily-livered and chickenshit to fight in the wars that you send other people off to fight.
Comment by jonp72 — 10/25/2007 @ 9:08 pm
Wow, wearing green is considered appeasement now? Does that mean Kermit the Frog was an Islamofascist?
Comment by jonp72 — 10/25/2007 @ 9:09 pm
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