A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Hard To Believe Your Ears

David Horowitz is a conservative author who has written many books and articles on the radically-Left atmosphere on most secular university and college campuses.   Horowitz recently spoke at University of California-San Diego on the topic of militant Islamic terrorism and was questioned by a female Muslim student afterward.

The exchange is chilling.  Listen close to the girl's words.

This exchange didn't occur on an Iranian campus, or even in Europe: it happened here.  There are people who believe this rubbish, that Jews should congregate in Israel so it will be easier to "drive them into the sea", right here in America.  Sadly, universities lend themselves to such radicalism because somewhere along the way our institutions of higher learning sold themselves (and us) on the notion that ANY idea or theory posited and explored is a noble one.  Objective truth (i.e. a terrorist group like Hamas, or Hezbollah, is evil) becomes too rigid a standard for the enlightened elites.  These elites are the policy-makers and supreme court justices and educators of future generations of Americans.

What ends up happening is that the people who promote such muddled "thinking" eventually have no answer for extremists (of any faith) that come along and promote views and beliefs that are irreconcilable with the liberty-loving system we've enjoyed for more than 200 years.

As Chesterton once wrote, "There are thoughts that end thought.  And those are the only thoughts which ought to be ended."

My heart breaks for this young woman.  She is the initial victim, having been raised to want to murder an entire ethnicity of people.  We then become the victims when we do not do everything in our power to combat such hateful, evil ideology.

All opinions are welcome in a free society; not all are right.