A Declaration Against Genocide and a test for campus organizations
The David Horowitz Freedom Center has announced that it will distribute a Declaration Against Genocide and ask individuals and groups, particularly those on American college campuses, to sign it. The Declaration calls on campus groups to affirm “the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to change religions or have no religion at all; the equal dignity of men and women; and the right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation and coercion.”
In addition, the Declaration condemns the genocidal passage in the Islamic Hadith which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’” It also condemns the Hamas Charter which says: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." It further comdemns this statement by Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- "The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible" -- and this one by Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah -- “If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
Among the campus groups that will be asked to condemn these statements is the Muslim Students Association.
David Horowitz explains that one of his goals is "to test universities’ claims that they support religious and ethnic tolerance, and to challenge the campus left, which consistently overlooks statements by Islamic radicals which are nothing less than an invitation to mass murder.” The Declaration provides a good test.
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