NYU Suppresses Free Speech About Islam

By Dr. Yaron Brook
FrontPageMagazine.com March 31, 2006

Wednesday, in a shameful act, NYU broke its own official policy and denied free speech to its students.

After having approved the display of the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad for a panel discussion on free speech hosted by a student group, NYU's administration reversed its decision in the face of Muslim protests.

A day before the panel discussion was to take place, NYU gave the student event organizers a non-negotiable ultimatum: if you display the cartoons we will close the event to non-NYU guests. This was in spite of the fact that NYU's own rules leave this decision to the student sponsoring organization.

And even though the students opted for not showing the cartoons, NYU barred entry to at least two journalists and more than 30 registered guests. Even after learning that Muslim students had sabotaged the event by acquiring and destroying two hundred tickets to leave as many seats empty, NYU officials still refused to allow non-NYU guests to enter.

In caving in to fear, in restricting and obstructing attendance, in forbidding the display of the Danish cartoons, NYU handed a victory to the Islamic totalitarians and their facilitators. In standing up to the destroyers of free speech, the NYU student sponsors of the free speech panel showed the courage that the NYU officials lack.

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Is it me or does it seem that the only absolute rights in America are
Burning the American flag

Criticizing the government
Helping the enemy murder Americans
Illegal migration, from Mexico and the middle east

I dunno... I missed a few. Speech is not an absolute right as proven over and over, it is restricted and prosecuted. However America is the best western nation for freedom of speech.

Ooh its only ok to criticize religion, if its about Evangelicals.
and its ok to be racist if you are talking about whites.