I have no time or expertise of figure out why Horowitz is nuts. I do have the time, and the commonsense, to announce that his plan to tell the truth about the looming threat of "Islamo-fascism" is dying the death of a thousand deep slashes from an ax.
Horowitz is claiming that it will be “the biggest conservative campus protest ever” and “a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses” about “the enemy.” But on CSPAN’s Washington Journal this weekend, Kareem Shora, the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, said that Horowitz was dramatically overstating the number of participating schools:
We contacted those institutions, alerting them to the fact that their name was being used, and wondering what exactly was taking place. … It’s important to note though, after we contacted those institutions, most of those institutions indicated that no such events is taking place on those campus. And many contacted the sponsors and told them, “do not use my institution’s name in your campaign,” including some very renowned universities such as Yale and Princeton.
Shora also said that the president of Liberty University, the evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell, also had their name removed from Horowitz’s list.
When Liberty University wants nothing to do with you, it might be a sign that you're just nuts.
While I was researching and writing this, another school Horowitz claims is on board denied participating. Of course, for a paranoid schizophrenic like Horowitz, this only confirms his own sense of persecution by anti-American academics. Speaking as a non-academic, I would like to say that I would enjoy persecuting him, too.
