George Washington Students Unite After Fake Anti-Muslim Fliers Are Posted
Students at The George Washington University claiming responsibility for anti-Muslim fliers posted around campus this week say their intent was to expose, in a hyperbolic fashion, Islamophobic racism and not to perpetrate it.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Dear Editor,
Tolerence and diversity are two major symptoms of any civilized society. If those two, tolerence and diversity, does not exist, then not only our society is uncivilized, but also any talk about human rights is but void and meanigless. What GWU has done is great to please its minority student population, but let us also hope that would extend to their staff, faculty, and administration levels so that they do not overact or discriminate against minorities, let alone the Muslim minority in the past few years.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Whomever posted these “fake” flyers should be expelled. Any racism, especially the preposterous “fake” racism displayed here, is wrong. Praising it is even worse than the act itself.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071020/EDITORIAL/110200006/1013
Knave: Stephen Knapp, the president of George Washington University, who is punishing the wrong people in the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week poster saga.
Last week’s Knaves were the seven GW students who posted satirical anti-Muslim posters around campus, which were wrongly atttributed to the conservative Young America’s Foundation. This week, Mr. Knapp takes dubious honors for vowing consequences but giving the kid-gloves treatment once it emerged that the offending students were not young conservatives, but a bunch of left-wingers seeking to portray the foundation as a nest of bigots.
When the posters were first discovered, Mr. Knapp, unable to recognize them for what they were, called them “reprehensible” and said: “There is no place for expressions of hatred on our campus.” That clearly doesn’t apply when “expressions of hatred” are meant to smear a conservative group. Late last week, after the perpetrators came forward, the university announced that all disciplinary issues would be handled by the Student Judicial Services, and not the administration. University police have closed their investigation. In fact, the students may escape punishment altogether because GW’s “hate speech” provisions do not extend to political affiliation.
Young America’s Foundation remains the school’s target. School administrators demanded something like a loyalty oath, in which the foundation promised “that you will not allow hate speech to be a part of any [group] events, literature, written or verbal communication planned for Islamofacism Week.” When you’re afraid of the guilty at GW, you punish the innocent.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:08 am
It’s absolutely horrible what happened at GWU, but something similar is going on at UF. As of yet we can’t verify whether UF Supreme Court Justice (& current law student) Matthew Klein authored a hafeful email pertaining to the Obsession film, but we know he’s one of the people sending it out to various list-servs.
In the email sent by UF Justice Matthew Klein, UF Arab & Muslim student groups are said to be leadership cells for radical Islamic terrorists and that “the threat is present in Gainesville, FL.” suggesting openly that the local community is in danger.
UF Justice Klein was also associated with an Islamophobist newspaper ad that showcased over 1,000 of UF’s top student leaders. The ad caused regional outrage, though Mr. Klein remained on the student’s highest court and has continued with his arguably Islamophobist activities. Frantic calls to the UF Dean of Students, UF President Bernie Machen, & Student Body President Ryan Moseley have fallen on deaf ears.
UF seems to be the perfect place for a hate crime to take place and no one seems to care. It makes me absolutely sick.