Students at the University of Waterloo, Ontario celebrated the Tamil Tigers on the campus yesterday.
It seems more and more people who hold terrorist sympathies are becoming bolder in expressing this fact on University grounds. We have seen since 9/11 many incidences of this nature from coast to coast. We have also witnessed Professors being suspended, their seminars canceled or forced to resign under the onslaught of radicalism taking root in various institutions of higher education across the continent.
It is time for us to take a stand. They must not be allowed to turn our schools into a breeding ground for intolerance under the guise of empty freedom of speech.
In essence, what I am advocating is that we call out these people for what they are: a scourge of modernity. We have to decide once and for all if we should as a civilized society tolerate these anti-intellectual bandits.
If not, watch the University whither and perish.
I appreciate the line "They must not be allowed to turn our schools into a breeding ground for intolerance under the guise of empty freedom of speech."
ReplyDeleteBeing socially liberal, it's still very difficult to justify the banning of, say, Coulter, while rejoicing at a speach by Michael Moore. It's sad that both can spew hate, but only one is recognized by the establishment as being 'more' hateful.
If only moderates were more, well, extreme :)
Exactly. It works both ways. We have a choice to make. I know mine. Here's a question: Is the moderates silence a virtue? Is the silent majority's silence our strength? Is there an invisible hand at work? In other words, why aren't moderates vocal?
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