Think Progress » Horowitz Inflates Number Of Schools Participating In His Divisive ‘Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week’

On college campuses across America this week, conservatives are gathering together to listen to right-wing luminaries such as Ann Coulter and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) as part of David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

Horowitz is claiming that it will be “the biggest conservative campus protest ever” and “a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses” about “the enemy.” But on CSPAN’s Washington Journal this weekend, Kareem Shora,
the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination
Committee, said that Horowitz was dramatically overstating the number
of participating schools:

We contacted those institutions, alerting them to the
fact that their name was being used, and wondering what exactly was
taking place. … It’s important to note though,
after we contacted those institutions, most of those institutions
indicated that no such events is taking place on those campus. And many
contacted the sponsors and told them, “do not use my
institution’s name in your campaign,” including some very
renowned universities such as Yale and Princeton.

Shora also said that the president of Liberty University, the evangelical school founded by Jerry Falwell, also had their name removed from Horowitz’s list. Watch it….