2008 Woodie Awards
Letter: URI College Democrats respond to Republicans' Islamo-Fascism Week
Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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11/02/07 - To the Cigar, As many, and hopefully all of the readers of the Cigar may have noticed, the URI College Republicans are sponsoring Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a nationwide campus offensive sponsored by the ultra-conservative Terrorism Awareness Project.
Far from being the brainchild of the URI College Republicans, this event is occurring at a reported 200 universities in hope of spreading the conservative principles of the Republican Party with the help of extremist, right wing speakers such as Ann Coulter, David Horowitz-which many students may remember for his outrageous arguments that our faculty is knowingly and maliciously indoctrinating us with evil liberal propaganda-and as of last night, Robert Spencer.
Lest the student body believe that the political left has remained silent on this issue, I am writing as a representative of the URI College Democrats.
While few may have noticed the week's schedule of events printed on the official Memorial Union calendar in the beginning of October, those who attended the Oct. 18 performance of "Stuff Happens" would not have overheard Ryan Bilodeau's plug after the play.
We were fortunate enough to have representatives from both the College Republicans and the College Democrats available for a mini-debate and question and answer session after the play, and I would like to take this opportunity to not only thank the performers, but also those that attended this event.
Bilodeau's comment related the war in Iraq to the ongoing struggle against the oppression of human rights due to Islamo-Fascism, as if now the entire reason for entering the conflict was an altruistic attempt to free an oppressed people.
As if to underscore my point on the irony of this statement, when responding to a question about the reason we have not won a decisive victory in Iraq, Justin Catalano, chairman of the College Republicans replied, "we were not able to kill enough people to force them into submission."
Far from being the brainchild of the URI College Republicans, this event is occurring at a reported 200 universities in hope of spreading the conservative principles of the Republican Party with the help of extremist, right wing speakers such as Ann Coulter, David Horowitz-which many students may remember for his outrageous arguments that our faculty is knowingly and maliciously indoctrinating us with evil liberal propaganda-and as of last night, Robert Spencer.
Lest the student body believe that the political left has remained silent on this issue, I am writing as a representative of the URI College Democrats.
While few may have noticed the week's schedule of events printed on the official Memorial Union calendar in the beginning of October, those who attended the Oct. 18 performance of "Stuff Happens" would not have overheard Ryan Bilodeau's plug after the play.
We were fortunate enough to have representatives from both the College Republicans and the College Democrats available for a mini-debate and question and answer session after the play, and I would like to take this opportunity to not only thank the performers, but also those that attended this event.
Bilodeau's comment related the war in Iraq to the ongoing struggle against the oppression of human rights due to Islamo-Fascism, as if now the entire reason for entering the conflict was an altruistic attempt to free an oppressed people.
As if to underscore my point on the irony of this statement, when responding to a question about the reason we have not won a decisive victory in Iraq, Justin Catalano, chairman of the College Republicans replied, "we were not able to kill enough people to force them into submission."