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UNC Students Walk Out of Pro-Israel Talk — Led by Student Whose Father Is Tied to Muslim Brotherhood

David Horowitz has never been one for making Muslims feel comfortable. His anti-Sharia activism on college campuses, especially, has yielded interesting results, sometimes including open support for extermination of Jews, as with what happened at the University of California San Diego:

But now Horowitz might not even be getting the chance to speak. In fact, the pro-Israel activist’s Monday speech at the University of North Carolina (UNC) led to a mass walkout by students, which left almost no one in attendance to hear Horowitz’s talk. The Daily Tar Heel picks up the story:

In Monday’s lecture, Horowitz argued that Palestine is trying to destroy Israel and that Israel fights back only in self-defense.

Horowitz criticized groups like the Muslim Students Association, linking them to various terrorist groups. He also compared Muslims to Nazis.

“There are good Muslims and there are bad Muslims,” he said. “But there were good Germans too, and in the end they didn’t make a damn difference.”

You can watch video of the incident here:

The walkout has since spawned multiple disavowals and apologies on the part of other pro-Israel groups, including the campus chapter of Hillel.

But was Horowitz that far off? Information about one of the students involved in the walkout, who has since spoken publicly on behalf of those who did choose to walk out, suggests that there may have been more afoot than simple reaction to “bigotry.”

The Daily Tar Heel article quotes one Mariem Masmoudi, a co-founder of the University of North Carolina’s Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, as calling Horowitz’s words “completely insulting and destructive.”

This sounds innocent enough until you realize that Masmoudi is more than an innocent, offended college student. She is, in fact, an experienced student revolutionary who has blogged about her experiences fighting in the Tunisian “Jasmine” revolution at her aptly named blog, “Youth in Revolt.” She describes herself this way:

My name is Mariem Masmoudi, and this site is the electronic equivalent of my life for the 6 months between January and August, 2011.

I withdrew from my last semester at UNC-Chapel Hill before my planned-May 2011 graduation to do what I can in the pursuit of real and lasting democratic reforms. [...]

This is a blog about youth in an ACTUAL revolution.

Here’s a photo of Masmoudi herself, taken by the Daily Tar Heel. It’s worth noting that she appears to be dressed in a far more Western fashion than many other Muslim students:

Father of Mariem Masmoudi, Student Involved in UNC Protest of David Horowitz, Has Ties to Muslim Brotherhood

So is that all worth noting regarding Masmoudi’s? Not really. As it turns out, not only is she a former youth revolutionary, but her own father runs an organization which arguably has deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Meet Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, former engineer turned co-founder of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID). CSID’s bio describes him thusly:

Radwan has written and published several papers on the subject of democracy, diversity, human rights, and tolerance in Islam. In recent years, Radwan has visited, organized events, and spoken at major international conferences in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar,  Jordan,  Sudan, Nigeria, the Philippines/Mindanao, Germany, South Africa, Lebanon, and Tunisia.

Sounds like Dr. Masmoudi might be one of those Muslim equivalents of the “good Germans,” right? Maybe, maybe not. Many of Dr. Masmoudi’s efforts have received glowing coverage from the Muslim Brotherhood, including a little gem titled “Islamist Govts Not the Enemy, Say Mideast Experts.” The leader of these experts? Radwan Masmoudi. His organization, CSID, also coordinated with the Muslim Brotherhood to host a Tunisian terrorist leader in June of last year.

In the interests of fairness, it should be noted that Masmoudi and his daughter may simply be too naive to know who their friends are. Some might say they have the wrong enemies, if the younger Masmoudi’s response to David Horowitz is any guide.

(H/T: Blaze reader Randy D.)

Comments (121)

  • COFemale
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:24pm

    you know if they hate is so much here then please by all means move to the Middle East. It will not break my heart. hell I buy you a one way ticket. I think I am up to three offers to people on this site, but I will throw in one more.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:54am

      Take all the money they made in OUR hatted Capitalist System back…leave them with the 1-way ticket…ONLY!.. No fine suit, shoes, celfone…alll things purchased with that “evile” money to be stripped from them at the airport, before the TSA screaning…no serch needed…they’re nude! When they arrive at their foreign destination, remove their passport,driversliecence,SS#, and any “evile”cash they may have hidden…also, their U.S.A.-Citizenship…GU-BUY !

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    • TheCoffinMaker
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:20pm

      hopefully she’ll keep walking until she crosses the Canadian border.

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    • tmplarnite
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 5:35pm

      Go ahead tell me again how American Muslims are not radicals…Yeah Right!

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  • jamestoms
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:21pm

    Filthy camel humpers can all go to hades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats where the central Mosque is located!!!!

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    • PASSIONFORCHRIST
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:33am

      It’s called “THE LAKE OF FIRE IN REVELATIONS”.

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    • youshuthehellup
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:45am

      the whole middle east is mentally ill!!

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    • dutchy
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 5:06am

      Horrowitz is right, the agenda of the left and Palestinians is to push Israel into the sea, well, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob will not let that happen no matter what the left does! God is the protector of the jews, do not fear!

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:33am

      @jamestoms

      You make comments like this and then wonder why everyone sees tea.baggers as bigots.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:59am

      Tell Jasmine what your thoughts are:

      masmoudi@email.unc.edu

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:48pm

      @ godfather1 – hint most such comments are from posers / trolls who are not at all conservatives, patriots or tea partiers

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  • ncstatemom3
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:18pm

    Thank goodness my children have proven to me as adults that they were really listening and observing while I was raising them. College is a scary place sometimes for a conservative and this stuff goes on to some extent at all universities but I really don’t believe mine would have survived Chapel Hill. Thank goodness they chose to attend elsewhere. Lastly, walking out and ignoring the truth does not make it go away.

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    • jamestoms
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:25pm

      Not just college its in 99% of the public schools. No room for conservatives, can’t raise your head, it’s all lost now, no turning back. Those jerks think its funny, what’s funny is the future and their demise, ignorant vermin, teachers, Unions, Democrats…all of em!

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    • Thewayiseeit
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:37pm

      College is not a dangerous place for Conservatives,
      It is a dangerous place for people with morals, integrity, intelligence &
      most of all common sense!
      What I don’t understand is why people are still sending their very own legacy,
      their own children, to these rat holes of revolutionary stupidity?
      When they come home & tell you how ignorant you are about the world,
      I will shed a tear with you.
      There is no education coming from most colleges, just indoctrination.
      This does not mean you have bad kids, just badly educated kids,
      by people counting on the ignorance they are designing into them.
      No defenses to the false promises & deceit.

      When your children welcome the Islamist in with open arms,
      the Islamist will cut your children down & walk over them like slaughtered vermin.
      Pray that we can help bring America back to its true course,
      not the bloodshed they are designing in to our children.

      If you love your children, audit some of their classes, Demand lesson plans,
      Talk to & or investigate their professors.
      If you own a business you do this with even the lowest employee,
      What could make your own child’s future less important?

      The people doing this to America don’t love America, They want to see it fall!

      You would never poison your loved ones to show how much you care for them!

      Most people are good, but those who lust for power only see others as obstacles to remove.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:24am

      Very well said ONE EYE

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    • football lady
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:34pm

      Agree 100%

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    • PlzGodMakeHimStop
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:04pm

      NCSTATEMOM3: I hate to have to tell you this, but sending your darling child to NC State, or most other state funded universities, will not save them from the ant-semetic, pro-communist rhetoric. I worked at NC State for 7 years. It’s a mindset that has propagated through the whole university, at every level, not just the professors. I couldn’t believe the stupidity I heard. Friends ask me if I want to go back. My reply, “Not if I don’t have to.”

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:08pm

    The stench of hypocracy coming out of UNC students these days is exceeded only by the athletes who play football for this once proud university….

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 8:38am

      It’s not just UNC. All university towns end up as liberal Meccas even in the most conservative states because of the people we have allowed to run our universities over the last 50 years.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 8:38am

      It’s not just UNC. All university towns end up as liberal Meccas even in the most conservative states because of the people we have allowed to run our universities over the last 50 years.

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    • wbedding
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:14am

      spot on, HEMPSTEAD1944. UNC-Chapel Hell is a bastion of liberalism, just as every other supposedly “enlightened” public university and secondary school system in this nation. i pray when my child is ready to attend college, there are still private, conservative schools available to attend. if Barry O’Bummer has his way in a second term, they will be taxed/regulated out of existence.

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    • CPT_GCF
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:54am

      UNC is a pit of filth. I know that there is liberalism and liberals in all universities, but UNC has a much higher count. Yet another reason I’m proud to cheer on the Wolfpack!

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    • football lady
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:33pm

      UNC Cheats is not referred to as the Berkley of the East for nothing.

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  • TexBork
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:06pm

    Anti-Semitism, and hatred of Jeudeo-Christian values and anti-Americanism is the National Socialist agenda that is indoctrinated into our high school graduates who go on to university. The universities are charging higher and higer costs for this indoctrination and the left agrees with continually fund that indoctrination with increases in funding by the tax payers.

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    • TRUTHSENSE
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:03am

      Right on! And taxpayers are duped into thinking that they are funding real education which prepares their children for good jobs, when it’s really needed to fund leftist ideology and other useless propaganda.
      If we balk at giving them more money we are labeled as enemies of education. One of my friends jokingly threatened to turn me over to the authorities and have me sent to the reeducation camps. I said no, I didn’t want to have to go back thru the public school system again.

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  • doublee
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:37pm

    Maybe we should have taken my friend Senator Jesse Helms’ advice years ago, he said “North Carolina does not need a zoo, we can just fence in chapel hill”. He aslo was fond of calling CH by its proper name,“communist hill”.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:33pm

    I really love David and his trying to warn and educate…..but I must differ with his statement that there are some “good Muslims”….that’s not comparable to good or bad Germans. It shows even he doesn’t have a correct understanding of Islam – I don‘t understand that since it’s so easy to find out & listen to testimonies of ex-Muslims…especially if you’re a public figure that gives speeches re these subjects.
    ALL Muslims believe (as basics like Christians believe in Jesus) that Allah’s command is for them to embrace the goal of taking over the world for Islam, kill & hate all infidels, destroy Israel, Sharia law. Just basics. They are taught to lie to further this agenda and appear “peaceful” in countries they wish to conquer until jihad is called where they all must unite whether they want to or not. The so-called “good ones” who may not agree with the more “radical” ways are still stuck b/c they aren’t allowed to leave the religion w/o great danger – killed if they catch them. So they stay & become part of the jihad force.
    They have now successfully infiltrated US – they are everywhere – at our colleges trying to recruit the youth and get sympathy for Palestine – hate for Israel. Yes – we all must all wake up and not send our kids to liberal colleges or donate/help them in any way. Plus be diligent in watching over your community – your public schools, etc. They’ve already infiltrated there as well under guise of multiculturism.

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    • Spartan64
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:57pm

      home run post! Thanks for laying it out not in rhetoric, but in truth.

      I read “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, great book. Jihad is everlasting, not some “inner struggle”. It ends when all the world is Muslim. For the non believer only 3 scenarios unfold: conversion, subjogation, or death. No other route.

      They ran out of dough in the 1400′s, after they had torched their way through most of Europe. Went into economic isolation. They have reappeared with oil fortune as the driving mechanism. It has never ended…..this is just the beginning of Round 2.

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:30am

      Test… 1,2,3 4… Test, test.

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:52am

      @MOMPRAYN
      For whatever the reason The Blaze is censoring 3 people who David Horowitz would consider “good Muslims”. They even have had one of them in several Blaze stories. Go figure.

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:57am

      Dr. Zudhi Jasser is one of them… Let’s see if they will censor his name.

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 3:17am

      Unbelievable. They censored their own news story.

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  • cuinsong
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:12pm

    Can’t stand the truth so you walk out in protest. The pattern of either talking over the truth or refusing to listen to the truth seems to be the new commie way! Stupid idiots need to go live in a Muslim country for a few days.
    I think that would cure this home grown love for diversity, socialism & Muslim idiocy going around. This song is for this kind of stupidity called “Diversity” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11826046

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    • momprayn
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:35pm

      So true – except it‘s been going on for many decades and we’ve been apathetic and ignorant – not diligent in our voting, getting involved, keeping politicians accountable..

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:12pm

    She may as well be a revolutionary. The only way this jihadist is going to get a man is if she’s mistaken for one.

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:09pm

    Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
    -NO!!-
    And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
    The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
    What the heck happened to the Blaze I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Eric, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my butt from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Pelosi, she’s voted out – Ried, voted out! Stephen Lerner… ignored. Achmawhatizname? Ignored!!!!

    Aaaaaaaaaa aaa a a aa aa aa aaaa aaaaa aaa a aaaaa a a aa

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    • Make My Day
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:23pm

      Don’t quite thing it was the Germans, get your head out of it.

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    • DEFCON4
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:00pm

      Eric,Very nice reference ,my favorite part of Animal House. I miss John Belusi’s rants. Thanks for the laughs

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  • smokeyridgerunner
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:06pm

    Why give my taxes money to a school that loves to destroy eveything we love. Is it not the time for the USA to stop this crap!

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  • zoro51
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:58pm

    murdering muslums care not for anyone or anything but murdering all who arent in the man made cult islam. for they will beat. ki9ll murder thier own kind… with man made rules of conduct they them selves dont even follow.. ISREAL IS FOR EVER iran iraq syria lebonon are NOT

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:53pm


    I’m not nearly as concerned over some college students walking out, who have Muslim Brotherhood ties, as I am with Hillary Clinton’s close aid Huma Abedin, and what ties she has.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:11pm

      All I have to say to this demonic young lady is – over my dead body. Her group is going to have to go over God and every God fearing Christian to get to the Jews again. I will fight until I’m dead or until God takes over. Not all Christians will take up the fight to protect Israel and the Jews, but I assure you the God fearing ones will.

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  • ChasVoice
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:49pm

    OOPS!
    AIPAC May Have Connections to the 1940s Spy Rings Within the US
    http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/aipac-may-have-connections-to-1940s-spy.html

    AIPAC FOUNDER IDENTIFIED BY FBI AS MEMBER OF COMMUNIST PARTY
    http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/aipac-founder-identified-as-communist.html

    AIPAC Campaign Contributions to US Congressmen & Senators
    http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/aipac-campaign-contributions-to-us.html

    IRS Asked to Probe Links Between AIPAC and Secret Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
    http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/irs-asked-to-probe-links-between-aipac.html

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  • carolinaconservative
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:37pm

    UNC – Not the hotbed of intellectual activity that the college would lead you believe. This attitude is fairly indicative of most students that I have personnally come in contact with. There are exceptions, but overall a very liberal institution.

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  • robinakilt
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:32pm

    If they would like too, they can keep walking right out of this country.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:56pm

      ROBINAKILT; I agree. All I can say to these young people is, See Ya, don’t let the door hit you in your butt on your way out.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:26pm

    If my kid was a part of that walkout, he would be coming home…. pronto.

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:20pm

    Give the students who attended tthe affair a quiz – make it worth 30% of the grade for the class.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:26pm

      That would be indoctrination, not education. There already is far too much of that going on in academia, K-university.

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:31pm

      The whole thing was staged. She’s a plant and a useful tool. Her group acquired most of the tickets and staged the walkout. Unfortunately it was too late to fill the seats with people who would have been interested in listening.

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:19pm

    We better wake up! If our colleges and universities continue this “love fest” with Islam we will find ourselves a dhimmi nation. Given enough leeway they will use our laws and constitution against us.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:28pm

      We better wake up and stop sending our money and our children to these indoctrination centers. WE are the reason thes crap proliferates.

      WE send our kids there, WE spend our dollars on hollywierd movies, we spend our money on vile vidoe games. WE let out children listen to crap – they don’t get the money to support it on their own – WE give it to them.

      WE allow these things to continue. There are more of us that there are of them – they cannot afford to continue if WE aren’t supporting them with our wallets.

      Put your wallets where your values are.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:19pm

    Why does this article end in a cavaet? They know damn well what they do.

    What does the college have to say on this event? Silence speaks volumes.

    NoBama 2012

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  • cemerius
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:19pm

    When will these “protesters” that the only way they can “protest” is by infringing on others 1st Amendment be held accountable???? Of course, never gonna happen when Eric Holder is leading the DOJ!!!!

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    • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:40pm

      How does getting up and leaving an infringement on 1st amendment rights?

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:44am

      @cemerius

      Again, a stupid tea.****** showing that you have no understanding of the Constitution and the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects you from having the government infringe on your freedom of speech. It says nothing about a private individual doing so.

      Furthermore, this has nothing to do with free speech. Horowitz was till free to speak, but they had no obligation to listen and are perfectly free to walk out.

      I know actually reading may be difficult for you, so it will be difficult to see through The Blaze’s BS, but nowhere in this article does it say that the students didn’t allow him to speak. The Blaze pulled that out of their asses. “But now Horowitz might not even be getting the chance to speak. In fact, the pro-Israel activist’s Monday speech at the University of North Carolina (UNC) led to a mass walkout by students, which left almost no one in attendance to hear Horowitz’s talk.”

      Tell me Blazers and Blaze staff, how does walking out of a speech not allow the speaker to speak? Are you really all that stupid?

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:15pm

    “There are good Muslims and there are bad Muslims,” he said. “But there were good Germans too, and in the end they didn’t make a damn difference.”

    Precisely, just like there are good Jews and there are bad Jews. Zionists Jews are bad Jews, if you accept the premise that German Nazis were bad Germans.

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Ah. There’s that progressive equivocation again! Thanks for the demonstration!

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    • Joshua7
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:56pm

      If you accept the premise that german Nazis were bad germans? Are you insinuating german nazis might not have been “bad germans”?

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    • tzion
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 6:44pm

      Oscar Schindler was a Nazi. Clearly there were good Nazis (though not many). There are bad Zionists and good Zionists as well.

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    • maccow
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:59am

      There are good blaze bloggers and then there is “The Jerk”. Same diff.

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:15pm

    Take it from somebody who has spent alot of time in Raleigh North Carolina. UNC is one of the most liberal schools in the country. If you want you child to get an education that is from the far left send them to the University of North Carolina.

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:37pm

      Chapel Hill is drowning in progressives. Absolutely zero conservatives there. I think they should rename it Chapel Hillistan.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:14pm

    Horowitz rocks! I love having him on my radio show and every time he comes on, he makes new fans. A brilliant, caring man who tells the truth.

    Love ya David!

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on March 13, 2012 at 5:13pm

    Her father wrote a book called “Islamist Government not the enemy”….where have they been the last 500 or so years?…she would get beaten and mutilated for dressing like that in most parts of the Islamist Controlled World…she can’t be that stupid… she will be hanging with Fluke soon enough, wait and see.

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