TO THE EDITOR:
David Horowitz’s speech on campus Monday was an object lesson in the importance of free speech on campus. Had the university refused him a platform, the student body would have been deprived of the opportunity to see an honest-to-God mouth-breather like Horowitz suggest (irony-free!) a parallel between the Muslim Students Association and Hezbollah.
Any of us who have sat in class with a Muslim student will see through his fear-mongering.
More importantly, Horowitz’s speech allowed students insight into the sort of thinking that drove us into war in Iraq — and that pundits of his ilk will soon be trotting out to make the same case for Iran.
Sam Shaw
Junior
Peace, War and Defense, History
