The campus protest against Vanderbilt University law professor Carol Swain is in full swing this afternoon (follow the Hustler‘s Twitter feed for updates) but the outrage over her op-ed against Islam continues today in print.
Zoha Malik, an international student from Pakistan, wrote a letter to the dean – published in the Hustler – that strongly suggests she wants the university to punish “such open hate speech” as Swain’s.
Malik takes Swain’s op-ed – which calls for “serious monitoring of Islamic organizations,” civic education for Muslims and recognition of “the dangers of the burka” – as a personal attack, and says that Swain as a black woman should know better:
I have been taught my entire life to be loving, caring, tolerant, patient and kind — never to harm anyone or anything. …
It is then, deeply saddening for me to see a woman, who herself belongs to a widely misjudged minority, fail to acknowledge the Muslim minority in this country. …
Am I a threat to you and your children? What makes me a threat? The fact that I am nice and welcoming and understanding of all people? Or the fact that I have never done anyone wrong? Or the fact that my close friend group consists of Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Jews and atheists?
The student implies that Swain’s speech is just as bad as the acts of Muslim terrorists, saying both have made Malik “depressed” recently:
But if there persists such open hate speech in this university, I fear Vanderbilt’s constant efforts to be diverse and a second home to its students will be futile.
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