COLUMBIA "Uninvites" Attendees to Shoebat

Can you believe those cowards at Columbia University?  They just sent out the following email at 5pm, on the day of the Walid Shoebat event, it starts in two hours. Everyone I know was dis-invited (except me.) They are beyond contempt.

It is the decision of the advising office to Student Governing Board groups that at tonight's event sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans, hosts to the Walid Shoebat Foundation, attendance will be limited to the invited speakers and their staff, CUID holders, and 20 invited guests. You are receiving this email to inform you that unfortunately, your RSVP to tonight's event cannot be accepted.

Sincerely,

Jewelnel Davis
University Chaplain
Associate Provost
Director of the Earl Hall Center

Comments

[Josef K]

The timing sucks but if the same... outrage happens tonight at least we can narrow the problem down to Columbia U students. Of course, somebody will get tape (for you, I hope).

[clyde]

I have a solution to this constant winnowing of speakers and topics of interest to anyone other than the powers that be at America's colleges:

Hire a blind black Communist transvestite lesbian feminist in a wheelchair to perch on the side of the stage as window dressing for the left. This will make any event TOTALLY PC. Maybe she/he/it could address the crowd in Arabic and/or Spanish sign language as well. If not those languages, Esperanto will be acceptable.

[Pamela Geller]

I am going

[lowandslow]

They knew better than to mess with Pamela.

[john jay]

friends:

does anybody really understand a university to still be a place where ideas are exchanged and debated, or still a place where ideas are interchanged without hindrance?

the american academy is simply a place of indoctrination. plain and simple.

the left has made the university a place where force, intimidation and leftest dogma prevail. it is simply time to take this important forum, this essential place to reteach the lessons of history and civilization and values back.

jjj

[MarkD]

Beyond contempt pretty well summarizes it. I guess their method of handling rioting punks is to appease them. I didn't know Columbia trained our State Department.

[Sulayman]

John Jay, would you allow a Hizbullah member to speak at Columbia?

It's a private school, I thought objectivists would understand not to interfere in other people's private property.

[lowandslow]

Seva Brodsky's response to CU. (courtesy of gaby at LGF)

This is really nice, thank you very much, Jewelnel. Never mind that I am on a Greyhound bus from Boston, approaching NYC, coming to NY with the sole purpose of attending the event, and by chance decided to check my e-mail on my mobile phone PDA, which I hardly ever do. Who needs advance notice anyway, right?

I wonder what prompted you to suddenly change the attendance policy? I mean, I have signed up well in advance (prior notice, hint-hint), got the confirmation on time (hint-hint), and left Boston on time, having spent $50 for the roundtrip ticket.

It couldn't be due to political correctness, could it? I mean, you wouldn't be afraid of some outsiders coming to the event from afar so as to get educated, enlightened, and inspired, right?

This, dear Jewelnel, smells of a scandal. Which you are about to have, on account of this cancellation, as well as for quite a few other reasons. Your decision is outrageous, unfair, inconsiderate, undemocratic, anti-intellectual, anti-academic, frivolous, gratuitous, etc. Oh, wait, I forgot -- did I mention it was also highly untimely? This decision flies in the face of the First Amendment and everything else that makes this country great.

It's not as if Columbia U. didn't have enough scandals already, especially lately. So what's another scandal? No sweat of Columbia's back, right?

Well, we'll see about that last one, won't we? I hope you have good legal in-house counsel, for you have just made a whole lot of people quite unhappy. I am sure the reporters will have a field day once again. Enter the press ...

Unbelievable ...

Seva Brodsky
Somerville, MA

[Richard Davis]

Sulyman - The head Hezbullah member WAS invited to speak at Columbia (Amadinnajacket aka the midget). JJJ has no control but he should be allowed to invite whoever he wanted.

Point is - liberals have proven they are the ones who are intolerant, not the conservatives.

Can't wait for Pamela's report on this.

[WARCHICK]

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[Dan Kauffman]

How about signing up for every lecture that has an RSVP

THEN send an email to this character stating something like

At a certain amount of effort and expence, took off work, had to travel*** etc etc only to find out when I arrived that without adequate notice you had canceled my invitation.

If I do not receive personal assurances from YOUR office that there will not be a reocurrence of the above I will be forced to forego attending, despite my desire to do so.

Let them get a flurry of emails like that for EVERY such event for awhile. ;-)

[Josef K]

Good to hear, Pamela that you got to go!

[john jay]

my very dear sulyman:

a most interesting question.

in response to your question as posed, my answer is "no." i would regard any admitted member of hezbollah as an enemy combatant, subject to being shot or captured.

if someone wanted to advance argument as a generalized intellectual proposition that terrorism is a legitmate way for organized groups to fight asymmetrical war against established nations or political rivals, the answer would be "yes."

if that person who wanted to advance such an argument about asymmetrical war or terrorism could be shown to have established links to an organization such as hezbollah, whether by raising funds to be forwarded to terrorist groups or by operational planning or advice, or in any other manner such as could be construed to be providing aid and confront to a group such as the taliban or hezbollah or hamas or fatah, or the irish republican army, then i think such person is a legitmate target for arrest, capture, interrogation or assassination.

in short, i am for free speech.

in short, when you are at war, you should kill your enemies with as much dispatch as possible, whenever and wherever possible. islamic terrorists have declared jihad against the united states, so i understand the united states to be in a state of war with islamic terror. an admitted member of hezbollah is an admitted enemy of the u.s., and an admitted combatant. period.

in the middle east. in the united states.

i trust that i have made myself clear on that issue.

as to the very minor issue of property.

columbia university owns its facilities. they may use them as they wish (assuming no issue of "state action" to exist in this situation such as would make the university a quasi public institution for legal analysis.)

one of the things they may do is either lease those facilities or allow their use within guidelines established by the university or via negotiations with the user.

in either context, if the university and the end user have agreed upon terms of use, that is an agreement between them. presumably, the young republicans who obtained use of the university facility did so with certain parameters and rules concerning the use of the facilities.

it would appear that the university changed the rules at the last moment without notice to neither the users, the young republicans, nor those who had an expectancy to attend, the ticket purchasing public. there being no mention that the young republicans could not charge a fee for attendance, for fund raising purchases, such use of the facilities seems well within any lease or license extended by the university for use of the hall.

in short, the university can be said to have stepped on its dick in this matter, plain and simple. arguably, they acted neither legally or equitably.

the young republicans in no way can be said to have interfered with columbia university's property rights.

john jay

[john jay]

my very dear sulyman:

you should understand very clearly, that the united states is not europe, nor england, nor scandanavia.

we simply will not tolerate the outrages or the provocations endured by citizens of those countries by islam, or islamic terrorists, or provocateurs or fund raisers for terrorism.

i do not speak of our government, which is civilized. i speak of our populace, which isn't always. some of us are fat and lazy and stupid. enough of us are not.

one of our great american humorists, h.l. menken once said of america, "that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american people." we laughed when he said it, we laugh when we hear it now years later. it will be funny to us years from now. we laugh at ourselves.

i can tell you in all seriousness right now, however, that no group or foreign nation has ever prospered underestimating us. we usually have the last laugh. so far, so good.

john jay

[matt g]

First time visitor to this blog - good stuff. I love Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book, and...is that you painted nekked as supergirl or am I imagining things? Sorry to distract from this fine, intellectual discussion but...how come we can't blow that photo up? You have one heck of a figure. John Galt would get wood. Mazel to the T O V baby. Matt

[syn]

Sulyman,
What a lame excuse you give for nasty behavior, please don't don't let commonsense interfere with your ignorance.

If Columbia did not want people on their private property then they should not have invited people in the first place.

[Lawrence]

Columbia has invented a new way of stifling free speech.

Intimidating and chasing off the speakers didn’t work out very well, so now they are simply locking out the audience.

Pretty Sneaky.

[Freedom]

Yes, it was absolutely disgusting what they did! I had expected to do a follow up on an earlier radio interview I did with Mr. Shoebat. But what do you expect from a Liberal Arts College where the late Edward Sayid (the Egyptian who pretended to be Palestinian) and Rashid Khalidi (his successor) are taken for serious, impartial scholars?

Rest assured, however, that if the Muslim Students Association had hosted an event, it would have been SRO and with the university's blessings!

American education is being prostituted by the left, is it any wonder we are no longer academically the most advanced nation?

[MJ]

I'll tell you what happened here...exactly what happened: When CU thought they were hosting an actual terrorist and a nazi, they were fine with it. When they realized at the last minute that these were FORMER terrorists/nazis that were now speaking out AGAINST hate and terror, it was then, and only then, that their speech had to be stifled. Columbia officials only support and agree with terror-speech and hate-speech...who's the terrorist now?

[Richard Davis]

MJ - LOL! you're right - the liberals focused on "terrorists" and missed the "EX" haha, good one.

[Thomas Carney]

Amazing. One of the most well-known institutions of so-called "higher learning" pulls a fast one. Not surprising, considering Loony Leftist Liberals want "free speech" for themselves but not for others.

Alan Bloom was right on the mark when he wrote the book, "The Closing of the American Mind." Columbia University just proved him right.