Anti-Muslim Posters at GWU cause Agony, not Satire
According to an article in the Washington Post, Muslim students at George Washington University blanketed the campus with “offensive posters” that shocked with a “gigantic headline:”
“I was just really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus,” said Najah El Bash, a sophomore from New York who is one of the leaders of the GWU Muslim Students Association. “You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. . . . It’s scary.” It had to be well-planned, she said, for so many posters to go up so quickly
The image, which was intended to satire the current American sentiment towards Islam and Muslims, clearly failed to achieve its intended effect. The blog Little Green Footballs reproduces an article detailing the general GWU reaction:
Representatives from more than a dozen groups on campus and from Muslim, Catholic and Jewish faiths spoke in unison condemning the posters and the unidentified subjects who hung them.
“We wish to reaffirm our solidarity with all our brothers and sisters of all faith backgrounds and reiterate our commitment to greater understanding of all peoples, of all creeds and denominations,” said sophomore Brandon Hines, in a statement from the GW Catholic community.
It’s unfortunate that the poster was misinterpreted as “hate speech” by the GWU community. Instead of thinking about why an negative American attitude towards Islam might exist, or how American and Islamic cultures can work together, the dunces at GWU stuck their fingers in their ears and shouted “I can’t hear you!” Maybe we should organize a GWU-wide field trip to a NYC comedy club to teach them the difference between racially motivated satire and hate crime.
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7 Responses to “Anti-Muslim Posters at GWU cause Agony, not Satire”
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CAN I GET THAT PRINTED ON A T SHIRT,,, I WOULD WHERE IT PROUDLY EVERY DAY ,,,THE TRUTH IS I DO HATE MUSLIMS,,AND ISLAM,, NOT JUST SOME ,, ALL OF THEM,,, I MADE A UTUBE VIDEO OF ME BURNING A CORAN,,AND FLUSHING IT DOWN A TOILET,,, AINT AMERICA GREAT,,, PS I WOULD LIKE TO MEET OTHER ANTI MUSLIM AMERICANS OUT THERE WHO BELIEVE THE SAME THINGS I DO
ur just sick!
i hope james get burnt in the fire you ugly bastatrd you mother fcker you sshit bag you ugly monk apes you ****** ******* your jus a stupid geeeek get burnt in hellllll
your jus jealous cus islam is spreading widly and were proud to be a muslim and you james noone is on your side your jus a evil doer.
hahahahahahaahahahhahahahah
Islam is a death cult
Muslim monkeys are like wild chimpanzees spreading their religion of hate and sharia law around the world. People are starting to realize that they need to reciprocate and shut these faggots up.
People have democracy, what makes you think that your religion of strict restrictions is going to run the world. Your pathetic dreams of cruel torture will never win. I will never bow down for the quran and allah.
Zionist Islamophobes = epic fail
you should be ashamed of yourselves. i know that sounds stupid but its true. im not muslim or islamic. im an 18 year old american and even i know enough to say you all are ridiculous. you need to get your facts right before you can say this ****. you all are so ignorant. do you know anything about islam? did you know that most muslims are against terrorism? did you know that this poster depicts a fundamentalist, which only make up a very small percent of muslims? you cant just go around saying you hate muslims and islam on the basis of your stereotypical thoughts. you guys piss me off