UCI College Republicans On Larry Elder Right Now

Talking about a forum the CRs are putting on tomorrow night on UC Irvine's campus.  To listen, click here for TalkRadio 790 KABC (sorry, Mac users). 

UPDATE:  Left Angeles Times columnist Dana Parsons published this missive over the weekend. 

SECOND UDPATE: Greenhut posted a piece by Assemblyman DeVore on this event on Orange Punch. 

Will UCI promote free speech or bow to pressure of PC groups?

From Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine:

This Tuesday evening at UC Irvine (UCI) there either will or there won't be a student-led discussion about the violence in parts of the Islamic world that flared up over the Danish political cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Along with the riot-inciting Danish political cartoons the College Republican club sponsoring the event will also show anti-Western and anti-Semitic (really, anti-Jewish, as Arabs are Semites as well) cartoons that routinely appear in Muslim nations. ...

Meanwhile, Marya Bangee, a UCI sophomore and member of the Muslim Student Union, was quoted in the L.A. Times as saying "unless they are living in a bubble, they (the College Republicans) have to know what has happened around the world ... We don't want to limit anyone's freedom of speech, but with freedom comes responsibility." ...

If UCI prevents this event from occurring on campus, what will happen next? Allow me to give you some easy examples of events that might draw the ire of an emboldened Muslim Student Union:

-- A Sudanese refugee and former slave of Muslims speaking on modern-day slavery practiced by many Muslims in Africa

-- A Muslim woman who suffered genital mutilation speaking on that barbaric practice, common in parts of the Islamic world

-- A Muslim woman lawyer speaking on sharia (Islamic) law and how under sharia, a woman is worth half a witness in a court of law (one reason why rape is hard to prove under sharia law)

-- A religious scholar speaking about Islam in any way deemed unacceptable to the Muslim Student Union

The young and earnest members of the Muslim Student Union must realize that in America the College Republicans are free to show political cartoons while the Muslim Student Union members are free not to attend the offending event or to try to persuade the poor infidels of the errors of their ways by peacefully sharing with them why Islam is superior to other beliefs or non-beliefs.

If the event does go forward at UCI, they may spark a resurgence of free speech and discussion on campuses across America.
Posted by Steven Greenhut -- sgreenhut@ocregister.com at 9:52 AM

Comments

[Northcountystorm]

Thanks for pointing out the double standards Assemblyman. College Republicans are often on the edge but they are right about this.

[OC Fire Storm]

If he feels so strongly about it, the assemblyman should pony up and post the cartoons in question on his website. However, I doubt that he has the intestinal fortitude to make that happen. Come to think about it, why doesn't OC Blog do the same? Probably for the same reason the OCB doesn't.

[OC Fire Storm]

>>>Probably for the same reason the Assemblyman doesn't.

(that how the last line should read.)

[Bladerunner]

Sorry, but the Republicans have just shot themselves in the foot again. The Democrats must be thanking their lucky stars--I'm sure they will simply mail the press notices to the almost 180,000 Muslims in Orange County. Would the College Republicans have highlighted anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic art if people had rioted about it in tel Aviv or Belfast? I doubt it.

It's not censorship, just good taste, not to reprint this trash.