October 22-26, 2007 was dedicated to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week when students on various university and college campuses across the nation were to be treated to a week of hate speech about followers of the Islamic religion. This late report is about how this covert Zionist propaganda effort was to be implemented.
A Student’s Guide to Hosting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is published by TerrorismAwareness.Org. This site is sponsored by The David Horowitz Freedom Center through its program, the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP).
One can go to the Terrorism Awareness site to learn more about Islamofascism and see features entitled, The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam, Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews, What Really Happened in the Middle East, Jihad, and The Islamic Mein Kampf, all about the Iranian prime minister’s mistranslated “extermination” threats against Israel. This sampling only attests to the Zionist origin of the site and its attempt to further an anti-Palestinian agenda, one that emphasizes that Palestinian terrorism is the problem, not the 40 years of Israeli military occupation or the colonization of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) that is ongoing, which are never mentioned. This ulterior motive is in any case my take on this effort.
An article this morning on Alternet featuring the involvement of Daniel Pipes, the Joe McCarthy of Campus Watch, in this effort only reinforces this conclusion. Pipes, who requires American college professors to submit course curriculums before teaching modern Middle East history or politics before being taken off a hit list of allegedly anti-Israel professors, is an integral part of Islamofascism Awareness Week.
Here a some selections from the Guide:
During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.
The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat. Nothing could be more politically incorrect than to point this out. But nothing could be more important for American students to hear. In the face of the greatest danger Americans have ever confronted, the academic left has mobilized to create sympathy for the enemy and to fight anyone who rallies Americans to defend themselves. According to the academic left, anyone who links Islamic radicalism to the war on terror is an “Islamophobe.” According to the academic left, the Islamo-fascists hate us not because we are tolerant and free, but because we are “oppressors.”
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was touted up to be a national effort to oppose lies and to rally American students to defend their country.
These are the kinds of activities that Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was to feature (with my notes):
Memorial services for the victims of Islamic Terror both in America and around the globe.
A Student petition denouncing Islamo-Fascist violence against women, gays, Christians, Jews and non-religious people.
A Teach-In on “The Oppression of Women in Islam.” (this is no doubt a problem in some Islamic countries, being used here to instill a wider enmity of Islam).
Sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments and campus Women’s Centers to protest their silence about the oppression of women in Islam.
Prominent speakers against Islamo-Fascism such as Ayan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn, David Horowitz, Nonie Darwish, Christina Hoff Sommers, Phyllis Chesler, Frank Gaffney and Daniel Pipes (all Neocons and proZionists).
Documentary films about the Islamo-Fascist crusade against America, Israel and the West.
Distribution of materials on Islamo-Fascism including the pamphlets The Oppression of Women in Islam, The Islamic Mein Kampf, Why Israel is the Victim, Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews, and What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad.
The effort is unabashedly right wing, whose intent is to “refute the curriculum of the left, which teaches that America is the enemy in the war on terror and the terrorists are “freedom fighters,” whom progressives should support.” Obviously, the effort is also part of the attempt to recast Palestinians as terrorists, in contrast to what seems to some like resistance against a brutal military occupation.
You can read the rest of this propaganda effort at the link given above. It is definitely an effort directed at college Republicans and members of Hillel, which seeks to exploit 9/11 to demonize enemies of Israel and recast them into America’s enemies as a collective. Indeed, the State Department has obliged and given carte blanc to Israel by labeling any group it wishes as terrorist.
Film screenings available for the week’s events were also telling:
Suicide Killers
Description: French-Algerian filmmaker Pierre Rehov risks his life to interview terrorists carrying out suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Pierre speaks with the terrorists and their families in the Palestinian areas, visits terrorist training camps, interviews convicted suicide bombers (obviously they failed to carry out their missions) inside Israeli jails, and interviews their Jewish and Arab victims. This astounding documentary shows first-hand that terrorists are created not by Israeli or American foreign policy, but by the repression, lack of democratic freedom, and poverty of Arab societies. A must-see for anyone who wishes to understand the sources of Islamic terrorism: Islamic societies themselves.
Islam: What the West Needs to Know
Description: Virtually every major Western leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination.
Using original interviews, citations from Islamic texts, Islamic artwork, computer-animated maps, footage of Western leaders, and Islamic television broadcasts, Islam: What the West Needs to Know reveals the violent, expansionary ideology of the so called “religion of peace” that seeks the destruction or subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government.
The Path to 9/11 (longer film–may require two nights for screening)
Description: This controversial ABC miniseries dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the events leading up to the terrorist attack of September 11th. Due to pressure from Bill Clinton and his supporters, ABC was forced to edit out several crucial scenes before the broadcast. While this miniseries may never be released, we are lucky to have the full, unedited version intended for broadcast on DVD.
Obsession
Description: The acclaimed documentary Obsession uses unique footage from Arab television to create an `insiders’ view of the hatred Islamic radicals are teaching in the Middle East, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. The film features interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former PLO terrorist, and even a former Hitler Youth commander.
The last film boasts quite a cast of well-known experts. Even former Senator Rick Santorum was said to be available as a potential speaker.
Students were also apprised of other techniques to “prove the hypocrisy of (their) university’s claim to be committed to intellectual diversity and academic freedom.” Sit-ins and petitions and memorial services for victims of terrorism were also slated to be part of the effort.
Here is a sampling of one circulated petition:
The goal of the Islamo-Fascist jihad is world domination
The Islamo-Fasacist Jihad demands the suppression of all Infidels
The Islamo-Fascist Jihad is a war against Women
The Islamo-Fascist Jihad is a war against Gays
The Islamo-Fascist Jihad is a war against Christians
The Islamo-Fascist Jihad is a war against Jews
The Islamo-Fasacist Jihad is a war against non-religious people
Islamo-terrorists just hate everybody and the American left is being duped into believing otherwise.
I have no idea about the success of this effort, but it would seem to be odd that liberal American university and college campuses were targeted. They are the only places where Americans can be found in large numbers who are not falling for Zionist propaganda. Horowitz’s effort is undoubtedly rooted in furthering Zionist goals in the Middle East, by hiding it within a larger effort to defame Islam by emphasizing its civil rights deficiencies.
