It is 2008 world leaders and despots alike are meeting in New York City for the annual UNGA summit of world leaders. Columbia University invites Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak to the student body to present his "world view".
Outside various Jewish, Israeli, and moral minded individuals gathered to protest Columbia's decision to lend its prestigious name to the man who proclaimed "Israel should be wiped off the map" and an unabashed supporter of terrorist organizations spanning the globe.
The protests were loud and angry. For good reason. But Ahmadinejad ascended to the podium of liberalism and held forth on how there are no homosexuals in Iran!
Tuesday March 23, 2010 controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak at the University of Ottawa Canada. But her speech was canceled due to the angry -frothing at the mouth- crowd who swore to physically prevent Coulter's speech. The police refused to uphold their mandate to protect free speech. The University of Ottawa vice-president and provost Francois Houleo warned her "that freedom of speech is defined differently in Canada than in the U.S. and that she should take care not to step over the line" (The Vancouver Sun). A veiled threat if there ever was one.
When pro-Israel students where accosted by a group of anti-Israel students at York University, also in Canada, during a debate that had sprung up between the Hasbara (explanation) people and the anti-Israel individuals. It quickly escalated into an angry mob of around 50 students, who surrounded the group and chanted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs.
This has been going on for some time and seldom gets reported or discussed. All over the world the majority of "whatever" (the religious, political etc. majority) is imposing itself, often resorting to defending irrational views with violence.
Indeed America and Israel are the last two countries in this world where EVERY view expressed PEACEFULLY is allowed. But there has been a sea change here in the states.
In Columbia and many other universities across America "apartheid week" which basically is a week of Israel bashing, was in full swing, but when Israeli Ambassador to the United State Michael Oren attempted to speak at the University of California Irvin he was interrupted repeatedly, and like Coulter almost silenced!
We in the states must be ever more vigilant. True the old enemy was oppressive governments (Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran etc.) suppressing speech. But don't be fooled it is just as dangerous and undemocratic for majority factions to suppress speech.
Some of my friends have recently asked me why it seems that the most vocal opponents of Islam in America are Jews and conservatives.
I respond with my own observation of a global trend
...anyone who is remotely perceived as pro-Israel OR anti-Muslim is prevented from voicing their opinion. If however, the individual in question is perceived as anti-Israel OR pro-Muslim they are encouraged.
Is it any surprise then that those in America who have for 300 plus years experienced freedom from violence and oppression of the majority OR minority point out a group that has been attacking them all over the world Mumbai, London, Sydney, Queens, Israel, Russia, etc.(do a Google search blank attacks Jews in blank)?
YES JEWS AND OTHERS ARE AFRAID THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN HERE AND THEIR FEARS ARE JUSTIFIED AS THIS TYRANNY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION SWIMS ACROSS THE OCEAN INTO CANADA, CALIFORNIA...
WHY?
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