Editor,
Does UNM have a hate speech code? If not, I hope the administration will seriously consider adopting one.
I attended the talk by Nonie Darwish on why the Arab Spring has failed and was prepared to hear comments I disagreed with, but not the wild claims she made smearing all Muslims as extremists.
Professor Richard Wood, a recent past president of the faculty senate, stood to read a statement from Rabbi Flicker withdrawing the B’nai Israel Sisterhood’s support from this event, and rejecting all forms of hate speech. The audience booed him down and even took the microphone away from him.
Hate speech and Islamophobia must not go unchallenged. The sponsors of Nonie Darwish’s presentation, including the UNM Israel Alliance, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and Congregation Albert Brotherhood, should renounce this fear-mongering.
Lora Lucero
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