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Last
fall, Pace University student Michael Abdurakhmanov tried to hold a
screening of Obsession, a documentary about radical Islam, on his
campus. Hoping to show that Islam is home to moderates as well as
extremists, and that it is important to distinguish between the two
camps, he unexpectedly found himself beset by opposition. Muslim
students angrily rejected the idea. University administrators took an
even harder line, with the school’s dean ominously warning
Abdurakhmanov that showing the film could be considered a “hate crime,”
and intimating, less than subtly, that police might be invited to sift
through his personal record.
Now Abdurakhmanov has received restitution in a big way. Not only has
Pace president David Caputo tendered a personal apology to
Abdurakhmanov for the school’s strong-arm tactics, but yesterday marked
the first-ever “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Day ... .” [Continued Front Page]
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