UPDATE 12:30 am. Saturday:

OK, I thought it was over, but . . . watch the video by Incorrect U of the CAIR supporter at GWU who made derogatory racial insults toward the police officer who ejected him. (Hat-tips: Memeorandum, Hot Air.) Now read the background on "Umar Lee" at Little Green Footballs and Gateway Pundit.

The police officer's professionalism is admired by Ken McCracken:

See, I could never be a cop, because I would't even last long enough to be a bad cop. The CAIR guy . . . I would have planted his dentures in concrete the moment I had him outside the building.

Meanwhile, from Gateway Pundit, more video, this time of David Horowitz on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, who watches video of the Emory disrupters and asks, "They call this higher learning?"

The Columbia Spectator reports on Horowitz's speech Friday:

"When I came to this campus as a freshman 52 years ago . . . the atmosphere was a lot more hospitable to actual thinking than it is today," Horowitz said. A conservative writer, Horowitz said he was a Marxist as an undergraduate in a place where most professors were not. . . .

To the democrats at Columbia, Horowitz said, "You are getting a worse education than the conservatives," because conservatives "are all challenged all the time."

Outside the auditorium, Columbia students demonstrated:

"Horowitz believes that every person of the Islamic faith, regardless of circumstances or background or plans for the future, is inherently violent or conniving, or somehow untrustworthy," said Shlomo Bolts, CC '10, in a speech to the crowd. . . .

Horowitz was also criticized for his conservative ties and allies. "It's a campaign of demeaning Muslims that's transparently disguised as an attempt to justify a new war with Iraq and Iran," said David Judd, CC '08, and a member of Columbia Coalition Against the War.

If either student offered any evidence to support those claims, the student reporter neglected to include it in the article. (Random fact: Columbia tuition, $36,997 a year.)

Robert Spencer discusses his Thursday event at Brown (tuition $36,342 a year):

The question period was full of the usual self-righteous lecturing by thoroughly propagandized students who have no training in critical thinking and quite obviously feel deeply threatened when their cherished ideas, which rest on such shaky intellectual and evidentiary foundations, are questioned. I see that one of the fundamental weaknesses of the Left, and their Islamic supremacist allies, is that they believe their own propaganda, and don't even have the conceptual apparatus required to help them recover when its inaccuracy and dishonesty is exposed.

Maybe these kids are learning their logic from Hollywood. More thoughts on that from Fausta Wertz.

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It's Friday, and Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) draws to a close.

David Horowitz spoke at noon today at Columbia University. Concluding the IFAW schedule, Robert Spencer speaks at Dartmouth tonight.

So, time for The Mother of All IFAW Wrapups, beginning with video of Thursday's Horowitz event at George Washington University, courtesy of Andrew Marcus at Incorrect U:

Courtesy of Hot Air and Young America's Foundation, here's video of YAF spokesman Jason Mattera interviewing two opponents of Horowitz, including anti-war activist Adam Kokesh, who ends by giving a shout-out to Ron Paul:

Speaking of GWU, Michelle Malkin asks, "What would George Washington think of the institution of higher learning that bears his name?"

The GW Hatchet has good coverage of Horowitz's speech:

In the Jack Morton Auditorium Thursday, he told a group of about 200 that he was tired of being unfairly attacked. He also criticized University President Steven Knapp for not personally punishing the students who hung the posters.

"There is a lynch mob on this campus, and it's led by Peter Knapp," he said, referring to Steven Knapp. . . .

"It's very difficult to get your message out once you've been branded a racist," Horowitz said after the speech. . . .

The disruptive protests that shut down Horowitz's Wednedsay speech at Emory University were reported on Fox News:

Orit Sklar and Ruth Malhotra (who have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Georgia Tech of violating their First Amendment rights) were at the Emory speech and report on the disruption:

"I've spoken at Emory University several times and I've never seen it this bad," said Horowitz responding to the crowd as they shouted and jeered. "This is exactly what the fascists did in Germany in the 1930s." The loud chants, sign-waving, and disruptive gestures continued to escalate from audience members until the atmosphere was so chaotic that even the police present were unable to subdue the crowd. . . .

"Even the students who did not agree with David Horowitz did not get a chance to speak their minds because of the protesters' disruptive actions," said Emory Professor Mark Bauerlein. "No one was able to listen to the lecture or to speak themselves -- pro or con -- everyone was shut down."

Before Thursday's event at GWU, Horowitz explained to me that (a) the disrupters at Emory were mostly non-students; and (b) the basic problem was too few security guards to handle the unexpectedly large crowd of disrupters. This was corroborated by Ben Clark of Emory College Republicans in an e-mail interview yesterday:

A lot of the disruptive individuals were non-students who I think were involved with "National Program to Defend Dissent & Critical Thinking in Academia." Some were involved with the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade of Atlanta. . . .

Emory gave us members of the Emory Police Department there. They weren't prepared to forcibly evict members of the audience. . . . I don't think any of us were anticipating this happening . . . (Emphasis added)

There's a "Communist Youth Brigade" in Atlanta? Didn't America win the Cold War? Isn't the Smith Act still valid? But I digress . . .

Horowitz says the goal of IFAW was to provoke discussion and it certainly achieved that objective -- 352,000 Google hits to date.

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