Ohio ACLU Criticizes Board of Education's Exclusion of Anti-Radical-Islam (and Possibly Anti-Islam and Anti-Muslim) Speaker

by Eugene Volokh
Volokh Conspiracy Blog
March 30, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1259/ohio-aclu-criticizes-board-of-education-exclusion

Excerpt:

Here's the Ohio ACLU's statement, on the national ACLU's Web site:

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio expressed disappointment and concern over the cancellation of an event to be hosted by the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association at Mansfield Senior High School on Monday, March 28, 2011. After consultation with city police, Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Dan Freund withdrew permission for the event over safety concerns on Monday morning. A coalition of advocacy groups opposed to the message of the keynote speaker was scheduled to host a press conference later that afternoon.

The scheduled speaker was Usama Dakdok, and the Tea Party described his talk as "reveal[ing] the ways we are not just losing our freedoms, but that we are surrendering them to our enemy, radical Islam." Civil rights groups claimed Dakdok's message was anti-Islam and divisive.

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