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by Douglas Murray
• February 14, 2017 at 5:30 am
- During his talk
at Georgetown University, Jonathan A.C. Brown condemned slavery when
it took place historically in America and other Western countries,
but praised the practise of slavery as it happened in Muslim
societies, explained that Muslim slaves lived "a pretty good life",
and claimed that it is "not immoral for one human to own
another human." Regarding the vexed matter of whether it is
right or wrong to have sex with one of your slaves, Brown, who is
director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian
Understanding, said that "consent isn't necessary for lawful
sex".
- No mob of
anti-sharia people has gone to Georgetown, torn up telephone poles,
set fire to things or smashed up the campus, as mobs did at
Berkeley.
- Milo
Yiannopoulos has never argued that the Western system of slavery was
benevolent and worthwhile, and that slaves in America had "a
pretty good life". He has never argued against consent being an
important principal in sexual relations. If he had, then the riots
at Berkeley would doubtless have been far worse than they were and
even more media companies and professors would have tried to argue
that Yiannopoulos had "brought the violence upon himself"
or even organized it himself.
When conservative activist and writer Milo
Yiannopoulos was due to speak at the University of California, Berkeley
on February 1, a mob of 150 people proceeded to riot, smash and set fire
to the campus, causing more than $100,000 of damage. (Image source: RT
video screenshot)
Sometimes the whole tenor of an age can be discerned by comparing
two events, one commanding fury and the other, silence.
To this extent, February has already been most enlightening. On the
first day of the month, the conservative activist and writer Milo
Yiannopoulos was due to speak at the University of California, Berkeley.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, some of the new anti-free speech
brigade attempted to prevent the event from happening. But to the
surprise of almost everyone, the groups who wish to prevent everyone but
themselves from speaking went farther even than they have tended to of
late. Before the event could even start, Yiannopoulos was evacuated by
security for his own safety. A mob of 150 people proceeded to riot, smash
and set fire to the campus, causing more than $100,000 of damage and
otherwise asserting their revised version of Voltaire's maxim: "I may
disagree with what you say, but I will defend to your death my right to
shut you up."
by Guy Millière
• February 14, 2017 at 4:30 am
- "No one
should be telling Israel that it must abide by some agreement made
by others thousands of miles away... When I become president, the
days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day
one... There is no moral equivalency. Israel does not name public
squares after terrorists." — Presidential candidate Donald J.
Trump, March 21, 2016.
- Many Western
leaders behave as if they genuinely want the destruction of Israel
and the murder of Israeli Jews. They have Jewish blood on their
hands and many skeletons in their closet.
- In 1977, Zuheir
Mohsen, a PLO leader, said bluntly that the Palestinian people were
invented for political purposes.
- During the
British Mandate (1922-1948) the Arabs never used the word
"Palestine," and called the area a "province of
Damascus".
- For 19 years
(1948-1967), the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt, and Judea and
Samaria were occupied by Jordan. The Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) never said that Egypt and Jordan were
"occupying powers," and never described the Gaza Strip and
Judea-Samaria as "Palestinian".
- The failed
two-state model could be replaced by alternative solutions requiring
the dismantling of Palestinian Authority and its replacement by
something infinitely better for Israel and the Arab
population of the area.
In his June 4, 2009, speech in Cairo, Barack Obama
compared Israel, the only open and truly pluralistic county in the Middle
East, to South Africa in the apartheid years. (Image source: White House)
The "peace conference" held in Paris on January 15, 2017
was supposed to be a continuation of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 2334 (voted on December 23, 2016), and John Kerry's speech
five days later. It was supposed to isolate Israel even further and
provide a new step towards the declaration of a "Palestinian
State". It was a total washout. The final declaration, prepared in
advance, was not ratified, and the resolution published at the end was so
watered down it was meaningless. The United Kingdom's representatives
refused to sign it. US Secretary of State John Kerry chose to remain
silent. French President François Hollande delivered a speech full of
empty words, praising resolution 2334 and desperately stressing the need
to "save the two-state solution".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the conference
as the "death throes of yesterday's world". He may be right.
by Jeff Trag
• February 14, 2017 at 4:00 am
- If a speaker or
group is committing battery, assault or vandalism, the situation
should be police and judicial matter -- as well as valid grounds for
mandatory expulsion. There is no place for vigilantism by students,
faculty or administers on campus to enforce political conformity.
- The people who
are causing the problems should be the ones who pay -- not only in
colleges and universities but in other venues also.
- We should never
let rioters have a hecklers veto over who gets to speak.
(Image source: Wikimedia Commons/k_donovan11)
Universities and colleges in the United States need to be safe
places where students of all backgrounds and beliefs can live and study,
free from intimidation by other students, faculty, and administrators.
Protests are fine, and they are our right as Americans, but there
needs to be zero tolerance for violence and intimidation. If a speaker or
group is committing or inciting battery, assault or vandalism, the
situation should be a police and judicial matter -- as well as valid
grounds for mandatory expulsion. There is no place for vigilantism by
students, faculty or administers on campus to enforce political
conformity. There is no place for any kind of intimidation and
violence anywhere in the US. We should never let rioters have a hecklers
veto over who gets to speak. The following are some ideas to rein in the
current terror on campuses:
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