people will say the whole thing, even discussing this is somehow islamophobic. it s like you cannot discuss the islamist faction of islam without being accused of islamophobia. you re absolutely right, megyn, and you ve led the decision on discussion on the kelly file. we spoke about the documentary i participated with ayaan and i have been accused not just in media but also in person at rutgers university of being an islamophobe for raising this. this is a bold attempt by islamists to shut down critical scrutiny of them. islam is robust. it s a faith that consisted for 14 centuries. it can withstand criticism, it can withstand all kinds of slander. it can withstand cartoons being drawn about it. but islamism is fragile. you scrutinize it and it crumbles. so islamism is a useful word and yes i combat it. it does inspire decapitations
committee. we were excited to go to. we were looking forward to it. we found out last night they had cancelled the event postponed it because the muslim student association being one of them had gathered a petition saying it would spread islamophobe i can t and encourage mass murdering of muslims across the world. so who cancelled it? the student entertainment events committee. is that part of the university or is that sort of a student organization? well, it s run by there is faculty advisor that s in charge over the program s coordinator that is paid and hired by the university. so, but they the students, you know, got together, met with the muslim student association evidently and decided that it would be best to just postpone and not have the event. was there any discussion about first amendment in exchange of ideas and differenhing like that? not really. they said they want to have a dialogue and engage in hearing the feelings of the students who are offended by
entertainment events committee. we were excited to go to. we were looking forward to it. we found out last night they had cancelled the event postponed it because the muslim student association being one of them had gathered a petition saying it would spread islamophobe i can t and encourage mass murdering of muslims across the world. so who cancelled it? the student entertainment events committee. is that part of the university or is that sort of a student organization? well, it s run by there is faculty advisor that s in charge over the program s coordinator that is paid and hired by the university. so, but they the students, you know, got together, met with the muslim student association evidently and decided that it would be best to just postpone and not have the event. was there any discussion about first amendment in exchange of ideas and different opinions or anything like that? not really. they said they want to have a dialogue and engage in hearing the feelings
call islam. and a death sentence was issued on you. and you have been outspoken about this ever since. the message of your book is it s time for a muslim reformation. what do you mean? a muslim reformation now. and what i mean is today, too many people too many children, too many women too many fellow human beings are murdered in the name of islam, in the name of allah, the quran. in the name of sharia law. it s time to stop that now. it s time to change that now. you talk about how you know, this common use of the term islamophobe and how anybody muslim or not get called if they start to call out the elements of islam to put it mildly controversial. it s a way of shutting up debate. and i want to give a shout out to a friend who did a fantastic piece on it in the washington post i think january 16th she calls it the honor brigade. it s been going on for at least over a decade.
departments that discriminate black which we cover too. exactly. but that doesn t mean that what happened in this case we should suspend judgment. and it is hard to do what you did, megyn early on and to say wait for the facts and don t rush to judgment when you have a media mob stampedeing in one direction. and because you get accused of being an apologyist for the police or flat out accused of what happened. that s what happened. to me you get used to it because they said i was racially insensitive when i urged caution in the duke coverage and trayvon martin coverage and this coverage now. but you can t look at it as a cheerleader. that s what happened in the mainstream media. if you question the narrative in some of these stories you must be a racist, you must be an islamophobe. we ll get to that with ie yan hirsi next.