UPDATE: 12:45 p.m.:

Incorrect U. has posted a video of Monday's events at UC-Berkeley, including an interview with Nonie Darwish. The Daily Cal has a report:

It was sometimes difficult for listeners to hear Nonie Darwish, the founder of Arabs for Israel, amid the protest at last night's kickoff event for Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week. . . .

Darwish was introduced to an equal mix of boos and applause and was unable to begin speaking for about a minute because of heckling from the audience. She was noticeably flustered by the various protests during the speech and was flanked by a bodyguard.

UCPD escorted a number of loud opponents out of the lecture hall at various times during the event.

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The first day of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW), as predicted, produced plenty of protests at campuses across the county. At the University of Wisconsin, a former instructor heckled David Horowitz:

The speech was notably interrupted however, when former UW lecturer Kevin Barrett stood up and began questioning Horowitz about the events of 9/11.

Barrett was unable to address Horowitz, however, as he was drowned out by jeers from the audience.

Barrett gained notoriety for teaching 9/11 conspiracy theories in an introductory course on Islamic history and culture at UW-Madison in fall 2006. Members and supporters of the Muslim Student Association gathered to show their disapproval of Horowitz's message.

At Cal-Berkeley, IFAW speaker Nonie Darwish was repeatedly interrupted:

7:14 Ms. Darwish takes the stage to jeers of "Fascist; you are nothing but a tool of the United states." Shouter is rebuked and removed. . . .

7:16 the interruptions continue: "That's a lie! Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent!" and such continue to come from the audience. . . .

Ann Coulter's IFAW speech at Tulane drew a crowd of 1,500 and it "took 15 police officers and personal security for Ms. Coulter to keep the crowd at bay," Peter Collier reports in a Front Page Magazine roundup of Monday's events nationwide.

While hecklers and protesters greeted IFAW on many campuses, Christopher Hitchens defended the term "Islamo-Fascism":

Both movements are based on a cult of murderous violence that exalts death and destruction and despises the life of the mind. . . . Both are hostile to modernity (except when it comes to the pursuit of weapons), and both are bitterly nostalgic for past empires and lost glories. Both are obsessed with real and imagined "humiliations" and thirsty for revenge. Both are chronically infected with the toxin of anti-Jewish paranoia . . .

Harvard junior Christopher Lacaria contrasts the campus reception of IFAW with the treatment accorded to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University:

Campus progressives chafe at the idea of rabble-rousing, controversial, and inflammatory events staged to criticize politically-correct excesses. Bigots like Ahmadinejad do little harm -- few American college students share his opinions, and he already lacks credibility in most people's eyes. But firebrands like Horowitz who bring legitimate -- if often overblown and rhetorically inappropriate -- criticisms to bear against the academic left pose a much greater threat: to expose to more observers the shaky foundations upon which most postmodern prejudices are bulwarked.

Incorrect U. and Gateway Pundit have teamed up to cover IFAW, and Tuesday's schedule includes:

Penn State, 8 p.m. -- Former Sen. Rick Santorum

UCLA, 6:30 p.m. -- "The Path to 9/11" filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh

Columbia University, 8 p.m. -- Panel discussion with Phyllis Chesler, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Ibn Warraq.

Expect updates . . .

-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times