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01/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Students square off over speak"

PIPES SPEECH TAKES PLACE AT YORK UNIVERSITY: After a struggle to find a spot to hold the speech, Daniel Pipes' talk about the Middle East went off without a problem at York University yesterday though there were, predictably, protesters.

"The source of this kind of hostility against freedom of speech invariably comes from three forces: not the right but the left; not the Christian right but the Islamists; not the pro-Israel activists but the pro-Palestinian activists," said Pipes.

"These are barbarians who would close down civilized discussion."

Well said.