Dangerous Ideas: Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week at Columbia, Part One

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 25, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/223/dangerous-ideas-islamo-fascist-awareness-week

Excerpt:

It was raining; very Londonesque. Ibn Warraq and I were met at Columbia’s Broadway entrance by a Columbia student and a team of Horowitz Freedom Center security guards. A Columbia uniformed officer joined us. Since I was injured in a fall (nothing fatal, just terribly tedious), we were taken to a locked elevator in order to avoid the steep staircase-to-the-stars that lead to the Low Library.

Two or three protestors with signs against “Racism and against Hate” sadly and silently flanked the door to the Math building where we were to speak. Four more Columbia security guards awaited us outside our classroom.

The evening was a refreshing triumph. Every seat in the classroom was occupied. No disruptions occurred. We exercised our “free speech” rights without any staged hostilities.

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