University of California Irvine Moves to Suspend Muslim Groups

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Locally, UCI's problem with Muslim radical groups disrupting events, especially where Jewish speakers are involved, is a well known fact. The confrontations are normally disruptive, and edge on violence. In a recent example, Muslim Student Union members repeatedly disrupted a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren as many as 10 times with yelled statements like, "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech."

In all, 11 students were arrested and cited for disturbing a public event. Though the student group maintained that the disruptions were done by individuals and not organized by their group, a report cited internal Muslim Student Union e-mails and meeting agendas that indicated they planned a disturbance. Some of the students were not even from UC Irvine. A few of the students arrested had traveled from UC Riverside to participate in the disruptions of the speech by Ambassador Oren.

Just the fact that UCI is taken some form of action brings me to ask, "What took so long?"

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