More from David Horowitz:
Professor Mayer is mistaken both as regards my complaint about the cartoon and about the Mohammed cartoons themselves. I have not asked for any punishment for expression of religious hatred by the MSA. They have the right to say whatever they want, however reprehensible the sentiment. However, the university is not obligated to provide them with the bulletin board space in the Student Union on which they displayed their bigotry, or to underwrite the expense of printing up the flyers to spread their hatred around campus. Professor Mayer is also mistaken — or just being scholastic — in saying there are no university regulations against religious and ethnic hatred. Just imagine if that poster had been to protest an African American speaker and if the cartoon was of a noose. Does he think the university would take a neutral attitude? Would he protest in the name of free speech if it didn’t?
Finally, he misunderstands the nature of the Mohammed cartoons. They were not attacks on Islam, but attacks on a perverse interpretation of Islam that uses the sayings of the Prophet to justify terrorist attacks.






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