[WCUSP] Be Aware & Resist: "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week"

[KATHARLOW at aol.com]

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David Horowitz and his army of Campus Republicans are launching  
"Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" October 22-26 on hundreds of college campuses  across the 
country. They are ominously calling this "the biggest conservative  campus 
protest ever." Invoking 60's-styled themes like "free speech" and  combating the 
"oppression of women in Islam" as a cover, they plan to harass  Muslim Student 
Associations and Women's Studies Departments, and silence anyone  that 
questions the Bush Regime's official narrative, including even those  concerned 
about global warming!  
The first thing that must be said is that "Islamo-fascism" is a Bush term  
which all thinking people need to reject. It's a label concocted to whip up the  
xenophobia, blind patriotism, and intellectual conformity necessary for the  
ongoing U.S. crusade in the Middle East. Especially given the Bush regime's  
escalating threats toward Iran, the danger of a complicit campus environment  
cannot be underestimated. The College Republicans can claim to be the victims 
of  the "academic left," yet it is people like them who run this country and  
dominate the world. They are the ones holding "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day"  
at the same time as the Bush Regime's ICE raids are ripping apart immigrant  
families. This is not just a question of campus politics and a few loudmouth  
assholes. If we ignore them, they will not go away. They have their  sights 
set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking – in particular,  
schools like SF State, UC Berkeley, and Stanford – with the aim of transforming  all 
of society. If they can create an atmosphere at these colleges where it is  
OK to be openly racist and reactionary, where progressive faculty are  
intimidated by ridiculous claims of "left wing academic dictatorship, They have their  
sights set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking – in 
particular,  schools like SF State, UC Berkeley, and Stanford – with the aim of 
transforming  all of society. If they can create an at 
On the other hand, if we can politically confront these College Republicans  
and their "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," expose their real agenda, raise  
awareness of the growing danger of U.S. fascism and the real fascist  direction 
that the Bush Regime has been taking this country on – the endless  war, the 
torture, the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, the  shredding of 
habeas corpus and constitutional law, the unlimited domestic  spying, homeland s
ecurity and the whole police state infrastructure, the  Christian 
fundamentalism that is undermining women's rights, gay people's  rights, science, and 
rational thought – and if we can bring forward a radical  student movement that 
refuses to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and the  Bush Regime's 
Christian fascist war on the world . . . then we can turn  Horowitz's plan upside down 
and campuses can become the centers of intellectual  ferment, activism, and 
organized resistance that are so desperately needed at  times like these.  
Who is David Horowitz? 
From: _http://www.rwor.http://wwwhttp://www.rworhttp://_ 
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=v8q69ecab.0.6zjw5ecab.9ii95sbab.7474&ts=S0278&p=http://www.rwor.org/a/102/
resist-fascist-en.html)  
Horowitz is a self-described "battering ram" against any thinking in academia 
 that challenges a whole range of lies this system has perpetrated. As the  
accompanying article points out, he's played a major role in slandering,  
hounding, and even ending the careers of progressive teachers.  
Horowitz established his credentials with the ruling class by renouncing his  
involvement in the 1960's movements for social change in a series of 
slanderous  articles, books and conferences. He "made his bones" in the 90's, by 
waging a  high-profile campaign against reparations for African-Americans, with the 
theme  that Black people should be grateful for slavery! Horowitz took out 
huge ads in  campus newspapers proclaiming this vicious lie and to this day 
makes it a major  part of his attack.  
He wrote a book on the "art of political war" that Karl Rove distributed to  
key Republican campaign operatives. He is a vitriolic defender of everything  
from the extermination of the Native Americans and the enslavement of Black  
people, to the savage and criminal wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and the  
torture of those whom this regime deems to be terrorists. He has set up a  
website that clamors for the arrest and imprisonment of revolutionaries,  
radicals, dissenters and liberals and reports every slander, rumor, lie and  innuendo 
that comes his way. And, bankrolled from the ruling class, he has  organized 
the falsely named "Students for Academic Freedom," which literally  takes notes 
on lectures and rips things out of context in an attempt to get  professors 
who do not sufficiently bow down to the Bush agenda fired. The  modern-day 
Nazi-type student groups inspired by Horowitz organize so-called  "games" like 
"Catch an Illegal Immigrant" on campus.  
In short, Horowitz defends every crime that this system has ever committed  
and is now preparing to justify even more, and to intimidate and silence any 
who  would question or resist this.



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