Princeton, Columbia Cancel Free Speech: Darwish Silenced

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 19, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/655/princeton-columbia-cancel-free-speech-darwish

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In our time, a speaker must face a gauntlet of hostility and a menacing crowd if she wishes to speak in favor of Israel or to tell the truth about Islam.

That's if she's lucky. Most such speakers never get invited or when they do, their invitations are canceled.

Nonie Darwish, the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law and Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror, has faced on-campus hostility and disruption before. Over the years, I have interviewed her about this a number of times. Like many of us, she has also sometimes been forced to have security guards with her when she speaks.

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