UPDATE 5:30 p.m.: Liveblogging from GWU.

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Wednesday, David Horowitz's speech at Emory University was shut down by protesters (Incorrect U. has an update). Tonight, he comes to George Washington University -- where the first major protest against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was staged Oct. 8.

Horowitz describes Wednesday's Emory event:

I hardly got through fiteen minutes of my scheduled talk before members of the audience who come to protest rather than to listen became so unruly that it was impossible to go on. …

After the event became a shambles, I went over to the local Starbucks to indulge in a tall Orange Mocha. While I was sitting there the president of the Muslim Students Association came over and introduced herself, and shared her regrets at what had happened. I thanked her for that and told her I would like to continue conversation another time.

The left merely inflicted a defeat on itself, since civil America, both left and right, will be appalled at the spectacle. …
Universities like Emory are paying the price of not taking care of the important task of establishing a campus decorum appropriate to civilized discussion.

The only thing that makes the cut-and-run crowd mad enough to fight is the idea that someone, somewhere might be criticizing radical Islam.

Consequently, the speakers for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week require the sort of security phalanx one would expect for someone more like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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

PREVIOUSLY:

Oct. 25: Horowitz stirs GW uproar
Oct. 24: Santorum on Islamo-Fascism
Oct. 23: 'Awareness' attackers and defenders
Oct. 22: Slamming 'Islamo-Fascism Awareness'
Oct. 18: 'Fight fire with fire'
Oct. 11: YAF to GWU: Expel them PDQ!
Oct. 10: Expulsion demanded in GW poster hoax