My friend the Baron posts a great interview with Nonie Darwish, an apostate to Islam who grew up in Gaza and now has very different views. Darwish is discussing her new book, The Devil We Don't Know.
Nonie Darwish harrased at the University of New Mexico
The thought police are widening their nets. Nonie Darwish spoke at the University of New Mexico on Thursday about “Why the Arab Spring is Failing and how Israel is Involved”:
Halfway through the talk, Arab and Leftist anti-Israel students, mostly from the SJP group, stood up and began screaming and chanting in order to shut down the talk and make a disturbance that their wide network could use against us. They were surprised that people in the audience were angry and went to clear them out of the room. This was a first for UNM. Normally both sides have enough respect not to disrupt each other's events. Consequently UNM police didn't see the need to have officers at the event. However, there is a new wind blowing in the US, and the people who disrupted our talk showed us that what Nonie Darwish was saying is true.
One Conservative Temple withdrew its support from the event "after they learned about her past statements, judged to be religiously intolerant and hate-speech." Please.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Sunlight).
Here's a report from a local television station. Let's go to the videotape.
I haven't watched these yet, but here's Darwish's full talk:
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