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Muslim students at Arkansas State University tried to prevent a critic of Islamic sharia law from speaking as part of a campus lecture series.
Nonie Darwish, Egyptian-born author of Now They Call Me Infidel, spoke Wednesday at the university in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but only after the chairman of the student Lecture-Concert Series read a protest statement by the president of the ASU Muslim Student Association (MSA). In the decade since the 9/11 terror attacks, Darwish has gained international prominence as an outspoken critic of Islamic culture. She is director of Former Muslims United.
More than 100 Musliim students attended Darwish’s lecture, according to Emily Alexander of the ASU Herald, and walked out en masse midway through, following the example of MSA president Saddique Abobucker.
In a letter sent to university administrators Monday, Abobucker and other MSA officers called Darwish a “hate monger,” warned that her lecture would lead to “bullying of Muslim students on campus,” and said that her lecture would be tantamount to “inciting to riot.” The MSA letter “urged the administration and legal department of ASU to stop Darwish from speaking here.”
Islamic extremism has made headlines in Arkansas the past two years after Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a 26-year-old American-born Muslim convert, shot two soldiers at a military recruiting office in Little Rock in May 2009. Muhammad, who reportedly told police he shot the soldiers to protest what the U.S. military “had done to Muslims in the past,” was sentenced to life in prison July 25 this year.
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Occam's Tool| 10.14.11 @ 12:56PM
Vermin ACT as VERMIN ARE.
What's the bet that these students who walked out are going to vote for Ron Paul?
Clint| 10.14.11 @ 2:24PM
Probably, About The Same As Those Who Voted For Bush, Screwball Israel Firster Maniac Tool Job.
Shelley| 10.15.11 @ 4:32PM
Occam's Tool & Clint.....like so many libs, you either can't read, didn't read, or can't understand what you read. The liberal Muslims were the ones who walked out...and they all voted for Obama no doubt. Your typical knee-jerk reaction to this article has betrayed you to everyone on this forum who has any sense and can understand English....if I am to understand that "screwball Israel firster maniac tool job" qualifies as English.
RJ| 10.15.11 @ 9:52PM
You obsessed with Ron Paul?
martin j smith| 10.14.11 @ 1:13PM
Lets give a hand to those who walk out. Or, they could put on head phones,ear plugs or whatever.
Who cares about walkouts. They were never in in the first place.
JimBob7| 10.14.11 @ 1:27PM
A classic example of how devout Muslims view the freedoms established in the uS Constitution; Free speech for me, but not for thee. Kinda like the way Democrats view free speech.
Rogue Elephant| 10.14.11 @ 1:57PM
These Muslim activists seem to exemplify Islamic totalitarianism.
USSAlabama| 10.14.11 @ 2:13PM
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Trinacria| 10.14.11 @ 2:24PM
What? No jihad? You're slipping, Saddique...
linda| 10.14.11 @ 6:11PM
Arkansas has muslim students? Having a hard time picturing that.
Solo| 10.14.11 @ 8:19PM
So...let me get this straight....
The most impressionable introduction that the good people of Arkansas have had with the Muslim community in recent years is in the form of some radical Islamist extremist who brutally murdered two military personel at a recruiting station but.....somehow.....a person advocating AGAINST the establishment of the very same brutal Sharia legal institutions si somehow a threat to insight violence?
Excuse me?
These Muzzies are "over the top" hypocrites on this issue. Where were their protests when these soldiers were murdered in the name of Islam?
No where, I'd bet. Or...probably celebrating.
Scum!
sjccoach| 10.14.11 @ 8:51PM
The religion of peace strikes again. This will continue until the Muslims are convinced that free speech in this country trumps sharia law.
No Muslim slave| 10.14.11 @ 10:56PM
It should be the presence of ISLAM on the Arkansas campus that is causing protests.
Wake up, people!
Shawn | 10.15.11 @ 12:18AM
Nonie Darwish is a Muslim's worst nightmare: Arabic speaking former Muslim. She blames Islam for her father's death. He died fighting jihad against Israel. She knows exactly how Muslim women live in Egypt. She converted to Christianity and she speaks out against Islam because she was sick of the violence.
Of course Muslims are going to do everything in their power to silence her.
watchman on the wall| 10.18.11 @ 8:33AM
You're right. So, let's support her so they can
have more nightmares instead of dreams of 7
virgins. It seems that Muslim men are not human until it comes to sex.
MikeN| 10.15.11 @ 2:46AM
Perhaps we need to cut back on student visas from certain countries, and maybe shut down the liefty professors that breed even more hatred?
watchman on the wall| 10.18.11 @ 8:44AM
That's an excellent idea, but cut back on visas
from all countries. I attended the forum that
Mr. Bledsoe (father of the college student who shot the two recruiters in Little Rock). He said
that his son was doing well until one of the profess
ors (an Imam, I understand) took a liking to him
and brainwashed him. He changed completely.
big bob| 10.15.11 @ 8:58AM
Frankly, this is no different than how they, (CAIR, et al) behave all over our country. At the simplest level they are primitive thugs who have no idea how to reason or persuade. Many are taught to hate before they can ride a bicycle without training wheels. The problem is that in our Western civilization, where we give lip service to "freedom of speech", and even have it in one of our founding documents, we cave if anyone shows the slightest willingness to intimidate or threaten. The other side has learned well the weaknesses of a free republic, and in the end, it's why they hate us and need to silence any criticism at all: they know it is true. If it weren't, they would be arguing in the public forum. I fear we are farther along in this capitulation than any one realizes. They sense it too, which is why they are redoubling their efforts to shout down their detractors. God Bless American, indeed.
JN| 10.15.11 @ 9:40PM
What ?? this makes no sense this did not happen at the ASU?? unless there were some muslim exchange students, and that is a real rarity. Where are the facts on this..I can assure you 99% of Ark would not trust a muslim if they opened the only gas station in the state.
watchman on the wall| 10.18.11 @ 8:51AM
Yes, it did happen. And when it happened, the
lights flickered off and on for a few minutes. A
Muslim woman who was sitting on the front row
got up and left her purse behind so the people all
around her seat got up and left, wonder why.
Nadia| 10.16.11 @ 1:10PM
All the Muslim Students in the Audience were sent by the Saudi government to influence US public opinion in favor of Islam and against the truth tellers like Nonie Darwish. By the way, not all the Muslim students present were against Nonie's speech and some agreed with her. The rest left in a herd mentality lest the Saudi government stop the financial aid.
KS| 10.16.11 @ 4:06PM
Nadia: I fully agree, Ms Darwish tells a remarkable and refreshing story---she is doing very positive work to bring truth to the darkness of Islam. What is your estimate of how many Muslim students did not leave the speach? do you have substantiation of the Saudi role?
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