***update: Darwish spoke to Glenn Beck last night about Brown’s disinvitation (hat tip: WTR)***

Who’s afraid of Nonie Darwish? And why are Ivy League schools filled with such intellectual cowards? Adam Brodsky at the NYPost reports that Brown University has killed off a scheduled appearance by the brave, anti-jihad critic: (Hat tip: reader Marcie)

Muslims are often accused of not speaking out sufficiently against terrorism. Nonie Darwish knows one reason why: Their fellow Muslims won’t let them.

Darwish, who comes from Egypt and was born and raised a Muslim, was set to tell students at Brown University about the twisted hatred and radicalism she grew to despise in her own culture. A campus Jewish group, Hillel, had contacted her to speak there Thursday.

But the event was just called off.

Muslim students had complained that Darwish was “too controversial.” They insisted she be denied a platform at Brown, and after contentious debate Hillel agreed.

Weird: No one had said boo about such Brown events as a patently anti-Israel “Palestinian Solidarity Week.” But Hillel said her “offensive” statements about Islam “alarmed” the Muslim Student Association, and Hillel didn’t want to upset its “beautiful relationship” with the Muslim community.

Plus, Brown’s women’s center backed out of co-sponsoring the event, even though it shares Darwish’s concerns about the treatment of women. Reportedly, part of the problem was that Darwish had no plans to condemn Israel for shooting Arab women used by terrorists as human shields, or for insufficiently protecting Israeli Arab wives from their husbands.

In plugging their ears to Darwish, Brown’s Muslim students proved her very point: Muslims who attempt constructive self-criticism are quickly and soundly squelched – by other Muslims.

Here’s the Hillel squish’s statement.

KesherTalk has much more and notes that this is the same Brown University that recently suspended one of its largest religious student organizations, the Trinity Presbyterian Church’s campus fellowship, without explanation.

Brown University’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, can be reached at president-at-brown.edu.

More about Nonie Darwish here.

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