Universities, long esteemed institutions for the free exchange of ideas, seem to be on the endangered species list thanks to a growing number of radical Muslim student associations.  While thousands of students run the gauntlet to be accepted to some of Southern California’s top schools, the irony of it is that once there they seek to inhibit the inherent call for tolerance and free speech that develops the so-called ‘educated mind’.

Unfortunately for an increasing list of So Cal colleges, Muslims students, marginal MSA agendas, and future Islamists in the making, are serving as impediments to education rather than assets to their university and community group. 

I initially experienced this first hand during open-air assaults and marches pitting UCI’s 2001-2002 Muslim Student Association against a larger student body through campus wide protests against – what else, Israel. Clearly the situation escalated beyond UCI as newer generations not only held campus-wide protest and lunch-time brawls, but starting inviting speakers who outside groups found to be controversial.

While there’s the question of what duty a university has in all this, the majority of Muslim students continued exercising their First Amendment right to congregate and speak freely. More recent developments show this basic right to assemble, clearly exercised with the MSA, is found offensive by Muslims if a group or individual speaks unfavorably of Islam or Muslims in any context. Sound familiar. It should. 

This is the classic case of “do as I say not as I do” that’s been surfacing nationwide and beyond. Dozens of cases continue to surmount where Muslims protest against any act of speech found as subjectively offensive. Muslim measures to constrict non-Muslim free speech are evident in the rise of Islamist activity taken by Muslim interest groups; note the lack of any real internal opposition here.

These violations of free speech, the failed logic of free-speech-inspired protests to limit free speech, are surfacing with alarming frequency within university walls - and with little to no proactive efforts from university officials.

As recently as September 22, 2009, Whittier College faced an onslaught of protests for hosting Nonie Darwish, a Muslim born Egyptian who converted to Christianity. Whether Muslims found the conversion offensive and/or her open criticism of sharia law, the fact remains that herein was another case of open protests and pressures against a higher learning institution to regulate our First Amendment rights.

Now, just over a month later, USC faces a similar problem.  At 7 pm on November 4^th, by invitation of the USC College Republicans, David Horowitz is expected to speak on the “genocidal incitement of the prophet Mohammed that calls on Muslims to exterminate the Jews as the condition of their redemption.”

Citing a violent quote as a hadith posted on the official USC website courtesy of the USC Muslim Student Union, the entanglement began when the incendiary words were removed by university officials (only to reappear courtesy of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement). [see full text]

Apparently, for USC Muslims groups, freedom of speech is a privilege that is only available to them. And though the initial removal of the quote incited fury among this lot, there were apparently no qualms when so-called activist Alex Sham dispersed the following propagandist leaflet on tomorrow’s event – a leaflet charged with defamation of character of both Horowitz and the USC College Republicans:

This by the ironically labeled USC Progressive Alliance, with their little terrorist logo in the bottom right corner, is beyond absurd. I wonder how many USC Muslim students found this offensive, and how few of those if any will speak out against it. Through creating and circulating this flyer, the USC “Progressive Alliance” is ripe for a considerable number of lawsuits. Beyond that, they prove they are no better than the stereotypes allotted to various Muslims Student Associations.

The flyer is manipulative, insulting, and untruthful. It directly contributes to racism and stereotypes by associating what appears as a jihadi with a “progressive alliance”. The boldly marked words “HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!” incites violence, and misleads the reader into thinking that the affiliate group and speaker quote ‘hate Muslims’. The flyer is ripe for a libel lawsuit.

As a Muslim, I am disgusted by the continued opposition to free speech and free congregation guaranteed to us by the First Amendment.  I am deeply offended by this flyer and the racism it peddles against Muslims, against Jews, and against Republicans.

The people behind the USC Progressive Alliance, and the monstrously ignorant flyer produced by them, are both symptoms of a primitive mind – proving that just because you went to school doesn’t mean you’re educated.

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