National Radical Islam Week at University of Michigan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATIONAL RADICAL ISLAM AWARENESS WEEK HOSTED BY YAF
Acclaimed Activist David Horowitz and Obsession Documentary Visit Campus


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

This week hundreds of University student groups across the nation will be sponsoring National Radical Islam Awareness Week. To promote the week at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the UM Young Americans for Freedom chapter will be bringing the acclaimed American foreign policy writer and activist David Horowitz to speak at the Modern Languages Building Wednesday April 9th. His controversial writings include Why are we in Iraq and Why some Americans Want us to Lose the War, and Unholy Alliance, Radical Islam and the American Left.

According to the Chair of Young Americans for Freedom, Engineering Junior Sarah Ledford, the focus of the campaign will be “to educate students about the genocidal agendas of the global jihadists and the fact that their radical ideas are far more main-stream in the Muslim world today than most Americans are willing to believe.”

Along with Horowitz, YAF will be showcasing the controversial documentary Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” the next night in the Natural Science Auditorium. This documentary, which TV host Glenn Beck describes as “without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time,” draws parallels between 1930s Nazi Germany and the current situation in the Middle East.

“We would like to expand the scope of discussion about the situation in the Middle East because this campus really only promotes one viewpoint on the subject. We consider Mr. Horowitz and Obsession to be excellent counters to the bias towards this War by students and many faculty members.”

In 2002, David Horowitz visited this University shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Over 1,000 students, administrators, and community members gathered to hear him speak about the jihadist threat to America. In addition the “Three Ex-Terrorists” event YAF hosted just last year brought much controversy due to the large liberal bias against YAF for being a conservative student group.

Ledford emphasizes, “The purpose of the week is not to degrade or insult the peaceful religion of Islam, but rather educate Americans of the extremists that are twisting the religion for their genocidal plan against Israel and the West.”

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