The administration at the University of California Irvine has decided they will not allow Muslim groups to prevent the recording of their insane hate speech. This is a small victory, at a school where the Muslim Student Union is completely out of control, sponsoring events at which Muslim speakers openly support suicide bombing and spew unvarnished hatred and antisemitism.

UC Irvine’s policy to let student organizations decide whether they will allow the recording of meetings and speakers on campus will change, UCI officials said Thursday. Instead, the university will support the right to record speakers and meetings held on campus.

The issue has surfaced in recent years as the campus has struggled with complaints about controversial speakers. It came to a head in May when Newport Beach Assemblyman Chuck DeVore brought a video camera to record a speaker sponsored by the Muslim Student Union. The organization had posted signs requesting no videotaping, but the group did not try to stop DeVore from using his video camera.

It shouldn’t have been an issue since student organizations and the university may not regulate free speech when activities are held on a public campus, Terry Francke, the general counsel for the nonprofit free-speech advocacy group Californians Aware, said in May.

“I’m cautiously optimistic that at least a change in policy regarding recording events will at least turn down the temperature at UCI by letting people know who intend to participate in incendiary hate speech they will be held accountable,” DeVore said.

“We all along here have been dedicated to the idea that students should have freedom of expression,” university spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon said. “We abhor anything that might appear as hate speech or anti-Semitism. But we stand by people’s rights to say it because as a campus we have to stand for a free exchange of ideas.”

Notice that they cite the example of the speaker sponsored by the Muslim student Union—but they don’t tell you what was said by that speaker.

Here’s a video that was shot at the last MSU hatefest, in May 2007, in which Amir Abdel Malik Ali, in a private room, rants about the Mossad being behind 9/11, and claims that “Zionist Jews” are plotting around the world to make Muslims look bad.

This is what UC Irvine spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon calls “a free exchange of ideas.”

And here’s an earlier example, following a speech by Daniel Pipes in February, in which a Muslim student leader calls for Israel to be destroyed: UC Irvine: MSU Calls for Israel to Be Wiped Out.