An investigation by the Stanford Review has discovered that university organizations declined to extend speaking invitations to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (before his inauguration as Pope Benedict XVI) because faculty and students objected to their views.

Organizers of the “thinkBIG Conference” considered inviting Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch feminist critic of Islam, to speak on the subject of “Violence Against Women.” The invitation was quashed after the Muslim Student Awareness Network advised against it. “Liberal Catholic groups” nixed the invite to the Cardinal.

Tristan Abbey raises the question of who gets to decide on speakers. No surprise: Select groups with double standards and a biased agenda.