By Brian Carnell

Friday, December 14, 2001

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, David Horowitz went completely around the bend. He was becoming exceedingly shrill even before that, but the attacks and the war in Afghanistan seem to have sent him over the edge. Just as when he was a Leftist, Horowitz seems to have a lot of problems with the idea that someone, somewhere might disagree with him. As often as not, however, Horowitz ends up embarrassing himself in unintentionally amusing ways.

In a column at AntiWar.Com, for example, Justin Raimondo righteously slams Horowitz for his continuing instance on playing the idiot. At a University of NOrth Carolina at Chapel Hill appearance, for example, Horowitz reportedly went off about a proposal to establish a UNC-CH campus in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. The propose extension campus would offer an undergraduate business program.

Horowitz was enraged at the proposal, arguing that Qatar is led by "an Islamic radical," and claming, "There are no human rights [in Qatar] -- not only for homosexuals and for women but for anybody who disagrees with the sheik."

Big mistake for a super-patriot like Horowitz. As Raimondo puts it,

Gee, that's funny, but I could've sworn that was an American military base being hosted by the "Islamic radical" ruler of Qatar -- reputedly the largest American base and arms depot outside the United States. . . . Qatar has long been in the American camp, cravenly praising the presence of US and British troops for "protecting the Arabs from each other," as Foreign Minister Sheikh Hama Bin Jasem al-Thani put it in an interview with al-Jazeera television. Qatar was good enough for the World Trade Organization to host a summit there in November of this year: why isn't it good enough for UNC-Chapel Hill?

Raimondo goes on to note that Horowitz has become an ignorant demagogue whose "frenetic posturing has turned him into a caricature, a living parody of his own invented persona." The same Horowitz who used to rail against political correctness of universities is now railing against universities for "allowing" antiwar teach-ins at public universities.

I.e., just another right wing hypocrite.

Source:

Horowitz goes haywire. Justin Raimondo, AntiWar.Com, December 5, 2001.

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