Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire spoke at Stanford University on Tuesday and the administration was not too happy. The school referenced a video in which Klavan critiqued jihad, with the vice provost for student affairs and dean for religious life claiming that Andrew “distorts the tenets of the Muslim faith, equating Islam with violence and barbarism” and expressing dismay with the event happening during the month of Ramadan, reported Campus Reform.



Oh so we’re not allowed to criticize an ideology for one entire month per year? And that’s the other thing: Andrew’s not criticizing Islam as a religion, but rather political Islam, Islam as its performed as an ideology. This is also why, quite frankly, there’s a good case for not making religion a protected class. Activists often try to conflate religion, ideology, and race, suggesting that being anti-terror attacks, anti-beheading gays, etc. means you have a problem with people who have a different god or a different skin color.



It’s all smoke and mirrors but anyways, the Stanford administrators also said “we understand it can be deeply frustrating and painful to see speakers invited to campus whose ideologies disparage members of our community.” Good. If there are people who sympathize with jihad on campus, I think they might deserve a bit of disparagement.



“Acknowledging this pain, we nonetheless encourage you to look beyond the sensationalism of speakers whose currency is controversy to the examples of people joining together across difference and standing in solidarity even in the face of hatred and slander” and then they bring up the recent terror attacks targeting Muslims, Christians, and Jews.



See, that’s how they keep this jig up. They have to suggest that criticizing radical Islam is going to somehow lead to mosque shootings.

