The AP covers the canceled John Lewis talk

[Rule of Reason Blog]

By Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

Matthew Barakat of the Associated Press reports on the canceled (and soon to be rescheduled) John Lewis talk on totalitarian Islam at George Mason University.

Note how the spokesman from the Council on American-Islamic Relations claims that Lewis is an "unfit" public speaker--as if it is his right to vet who speaks and who doesn't speak on an American college campus.

http://ObjectivismOnline.com/blog/archives/002345.html

[Antonio]

By Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

Matthew Barakat of the Associated Press reports on the canceled (and soon to be rescheduled) John Lewis talk on totalitarian Islam at George Mason University.

Note how the spokesman from the Council on American-Islamic Relations claims that Lewis is an "unfit" public speaker--as if it is his right to vet who speaks and who doesn't speak on an American college campus.

http://ObjectivismOnline.com/blog/archives/002345.html

We ran into this in our area with Richard Pipes came to visit our area. The same organization responded to our local newspaper's coverage of this with a similar, and very weak, response. Part of that system of belief, and of faiths in general, is that the faithful judge infidels as being wrong, and therefore their views should not be aired. They've taken to using political correctness in an effort to limit speech they disagree with.