Silencing Debate at Temple – by FrontPage Magazine

by Frontpagemag.com
FrontPage Magazine
October 22, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/535/silencing-debate-at-temple-by-frontpage-magazine

Excerpt:

Even before Dutch politician Geert Wilders delivered his address at Temple University this week, in which he warned students that a "stealth jihad" was stifling discussion of radical Islam, student groups and Temple faculty administrators had collaborated to confirm the urgency of his message that free speech is under assault in modern academia.

Indeed, Wilders's speech, which was part of the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week campaign sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, almost didn't take place. Although Wilders was invited to Temple by a student group, Temple University Purpose, other student groups tried to cancel his appearance. Ultimately, they did not succeed. But the difficulty of bringing Wilders to Temple, as well as the abrupt ending to his appearance due to student invective and interruptions, spoke volumes about the severely restricted range of expression on college campuses.

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