Controversial Right-Wing Group On Vanderbilt Campus Gains Pakistani Member

They’ve been accused of white nationalism and worse but today, Youth for Western Civilization are celebrating not only a profile in the paper but a new member — of color:

On Saturday, Saucier and Williams called in with the news that they’d recruited their 13th member — Neelam Khan. She’s a Memphis-born Muslim of Pakistani descent, and YWC won her over at the Bay Buchanan speech.

“I absolutely loved it,” she said. “I found I really agreed with everything they said. I felt so comfortable with them, and we agree on so many topics.”

She sees nothing at odds between her Eastern heritage and her membership in a group that believes Western culture should predominate in this country.  continues here

Youth for Western Civilization group at Vanderbilt stirs furor

Its members, 13 strong and counting on the campus of Vanderbilt University, are out to "promote the survival of Western civilization and pride in Western heritage."

The club has sprung up at seven colleges around the country in the past few months, sounding a warning cry against "radical multiculturalism," "mass immigration" and the "leftist occupation" of America's college campuses.

To its critics, it's the new face of intolerance on America's college campuses.

At a YWC-sponsored event at Vanderbilt last week, protesters outnumbered club members by a margin of 10-to-1. The Southern Poverty Law Center has the group's national founders on a watch list, suspected of ties to white nationalist groups.

Vanderbilt sophomores Trevor Williams and Devin Saucier, who founded the local chapter last fall, say it's their critics who are intolerant.
A matter of perception

"We're not racists," Saucier said Friday, sitting on the steps of Nashville's concrete Parthenon, a monument to the kind of Western heritage he believes is vanishing from college textbooks today — squeezed out by lessons on non-Western cultures and non-Western heritage.

In other circles, Youth for Western Civilization is being hailed as a bold new right-wing youth movement, out to light a fire under fellow conservatives and wrench the national debate back to the topic of immigration.

The group had its coming-out party at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in February.

"There are four policies on campuses that have led to the subversion of Western values," Williams said, ticking them off one by one.

"Mass immigration without regards to assimilation. Illegal immigration. Affirmative action. And multicultural ideology."  continues here