Bogus Intel Used in Fight with Islamofascism

Hmmm. I’ve never been an advocate of kicking a buffoon when he’s down. But it seems our friend David Horowitz may be padding his list of colleges and universities participating in Islamofascism Awareness Week (aka “the biggest conservative campus protest ever”). According to ThinkProgress, Horowitz has already been caught adding names of schools that aren’t participating in his mumbojumbo in any way. Indeed, they even got caught listing Liberty University, the school Jerry Falwell founded. But now Liberty has demanded their name be removed.

And think about it, when you can’t get Jerry Falwell U. to sign on for Islamofascism Awareness Week things have come to a pretty sorry pass, right?

And now comes this from TPM Reader JL …

I am the Vice President of the Drexel University College Democrats (www.drexeldems.org ), and I was checking out Horowitz’s list of colleges participating in TAW. I was suprised to see my own school, Drexel University ( www.drexel.edu ) on the list, because I’m pretty tuned into political events on campus, and I hadn’t heard anything. Long story short, a certain former Drexel College Repubilcan leader contacted Horowitz’s group and said Drexel was participating.

The problem is, however, there is no college republican group on campus. They are not recognized this year, have not even filed any paperwork to be recognized, and as far as I can tell from speaking to their former leader, no plans to start the chapter again. I can definitavely say that there are no plans for TAW week at Drexel University.

I thought it was worth pointing out that one of the “participating” colleges is most decidedly not participating. There are no speakers, movies, or other events planned, and there has been no announcement of TAW either. I suspect that Drexel is not the only ghost participant in that list. Apparently, all it takes to be listed as a participating school is for a single conservative student to email Horowitz and say “I’d like to do that on my campus.” No follow-through.

Best,
John Lloyd
VP Drexel Democrats

PS- Long time reader first time caller.

So it turns out that the campaign against Islamofascism is plagued by phony data and incompetent management …

Late Update: If it turns out that these are yet more of the outrageous attacks and lies that Horowitz has had to suffer and endure on behalf of Western Civilization, we’ll let you know. David?

Yet Later Update: So far we’ve heard from students at Tufts and Temple who haven’t heard anything about events even those schools are listed.