Emory Wheel

David Horowitz had come to Emory to discuss and debate the term “Islamo-fascism” with a room full of students and faculty. A group of mostly non-Emory protesters had other ideas.

From the Emory Wheel…

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Conservative commentator David Horowitz was forced to cut short his speech on “Islamo-Fascism” in the face of repeated interruptions, heckling and catcalls from some audience members in a packed lecture room in White Hall on Wednesday.

The event played out like a tug-of-war between two groups: protesters who shouted questions or anti-conservative tag lines after every few sentences Horowitz spoke and another faction in the audience who became increasingly vocal about their desire to hear him speak uninterrupted.

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It is at best ironic and at worst hypocritical to argue against terminology that implies oppression of speech (among countless other things) by oppressing that voice. Many quotes in the Wheel article agree.

For more on National Islamofascim Awareness Week”: The Huffington Post laughs at the event but welcomes the debate, while Christopher Hitchens makes a case for defense of the term in Slate.