Yawn: Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Smeared By Campus Lefties

Gee, who didn’t see this one coming?

Since the dishonest smear is the left’s stock and trade these days, why should we be surprised when they disperse hundreds of fake fliers around and about George Washington University designed to make the Young America’s Foundation look like racist bigots?

Nice:

The Washington times names the culprits:

A group of seven GW students sent an e-mail to The Hatchet late Tuesday night admitting to hanging hundreds of controversial posters around campus early Monday morning.The students – Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon, senior Brian Tierny, freshman Ned Goodwin, Maxine Nwigwe, Lara Masri and Amal Rammah – said their motives were misinterpreted. . . .
Kokesh, a graduate student and Iraq War veteran, gained celebrity over the past year because of his vocal opposition to the war. Nwigwe and Rammah are also graduate students.

They are weakly trying to pretend it was just satire, which is the usual lefty excuse for this sort of thing.

Bryon Preston at Hot Air recognized one of the names:

As soon as I saw it, the name Adam Kokesh rang a bell. He’s the Marine vet who got in trouble for wearing his uniform to anti-war protests, and who heads up the Iraq Veterans Against the War. They were so careful about who they associate themselves with that they touted phony soldier Jesse MacBeth — until Hot Air and others outed him.MacBeth is currently in jail for fraud. Kokesh, an actual vet, evidently didn’t notice all the problems with MacBeth’s uniform and outlandish stories, or didn’t care that his organization was propping up a liar.

Irony of ironies.

At his blog, Kokesh supposedly fights for the free speech rights of vets.

On campus, he uses dishonest smears to discredit the free speech of conservative students.

I guess the old adage, “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it” doesn’t apply to conservatives.

Bryon thinks the involvement of Kokesh portends an intentional slander. I’m inclined to agree.

David Horowitz of FrontPageMagazine has more on the smear merchants:

Its authors, cowering behind anonymity, are part of what has become a national movement to attack Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

(The culprits have been made known since this was written)

This movement is the work of the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party and the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. It has one unvarying, malicious theme: that we are anti-Muslim. The Socialist Workers’ Party has mobilized its cadre with the charge that IFAW will “demonize Arabs and Muslims.” The Revolutionary Communist Party, which has threatened violent disruptions of this event, claims that we are committed to “the vilification of immigrants from the Middle East and Muslims of all countries.”

Well well well….. Commies! Who’da thunk it?

UPDATE (10/10):

FrontPageMagazine has an article up today about a case of censorship at Columbus State Community College.

A former (disgraced in the House Banking Scandal) congresswoman is preventing student leaders of The Terrorist Awareness Project from posting the fliers about the upcoming Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

She now is the President of the Arab Anti-Defamation Committee (ADC) which purports to be a civil rights organization, which is, of course ironic because she’s trying to stifle the free speech of Campus conservatives.

Funny how leftists keep running into this conundrum.

The most notable characteristic of fascism is the separation and persecution or denial of equality to a specific segment of the population (conservatives) based on superficial qualities or belief systems.