Akkam’s Razor

It wouldn't be Islam Awareness Week without Islamo-Facism Awareness Week.  Perennial attention-whore and ivory-tower hater David Horowitz (Rightweb), in cooperation with former-Senator Rick Santorum (Rightweb) are traversing the country to make you aware of the Phantom Muslim Menace.  Their plan brings IFAW to 26 campuses with 37 events, with a who's who of wingnuttery.  You can 'learn' more about this travesty of logic at TerrorismAwareness, as if you had no idea what terrorism is…

Those Yellow Elephants sure are keeping their heads down, though.  I see unbelievably low participation in the various IFAW-realted groups and events on Facebook.  True to form, the shrieking harpies and hardcore wingnuts are not blaming their own failed ideologies for the lack of participation, but rather the usual suspects, the librul media, the secular universities, and other terrrahrist sympathizers.  Alas, I see nothing on the RightWingFacebook stirring support either.  Kids today…

There's still time, however, for Philadelphia Christian Fundamentalists, Neocons, Authoritarians, and College Republicans to stand up proud against the strawman that is the Religion of Peace.  Here are the conservative rockstars speaking at regional events this week (full calendar):

Penn State University
Rick Santorum - 23rd, 8pm, 119 Osmond

Temple University
Rick Santorum - 24th, 8pm, Student Center 218

University of Pennsylvania
Rick Santorum - 24th, 5:30pm, Hillel-Steinhardt Hall
panel with Daniel Pipes, Dr. Stephen Gale, and (LaSalle Professor) Ed Turzanski - 22nd, 7pm, Huntsman Hall

The best part of the story is the parody poster (pictured at right) that was created and distributed at George Washington University, highlighting the absurdity of the rights recent rhetoric.  The poster, pictured at right, was initially thought to be legitimate, apparently by college administrators with some sort of mental deficiency, later found out to be just a joke.  Just like IFAW.

Updated:  Thinkprogress reports that Horowitz has been inflating the number of venues that are hosting IFAW.   For example, Drexel University has no official events , despite being reported as such by Horowitz. 

UPENN's event was retitled as "Terrorism Awareness Week", according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, an even weaker stance, as IFAW at least pointed to extremist Muslims, while Terrorism Awareness Week, especially concurrent to Islam Awareness Week, implies that all Muslims are terrorist. 

I wonder what West Chester University, the University of Delaware, Penn State, and Rutgers University-Camden have to say?  Islamo-Facism or Terrorism Awareness Week?