I have said for years that liberals would favor a flag-burning amendment as long it banned non-western flag burnings. Recently at a SF State rally, conservatives stumped on two Islamic flags. The college is considering expelling them. The college says that they showed disrespect for Alah the god of the Muslims. Had left-wingers stomped on Old Glory at an anti-Iraq War rally would the school be upset? What if some students put a figure of Christ in a jar of urine, called it the "Piss-Christ", and displayed it at a local art museum? Would the school be upset over that? In America you can desecrate Christian symbols to your hearts content. You can even get NEA funding for your desecrations of Christianity"™s holiest symbols and US museums will display your desecrations as art work. Several years ago, a punk musician would wipe the sweat off his face with a scarf that had the image of Jesus. Do you think that any performance hall would have rented to him if on his scarf had been the image of Mohamad, Ann Frank, or Martin Luthor King?
Desecration
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
February 11, 2007
A state university in California is weighing punishment for students who disrespected a flag. Not the American flag, of course.
The College Republicans at San Francisco State University are in hot water for stomping on the flags of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah during an October "anti-terrorism rally." Little did they know, the flags bear the name of Allah in Arabic script -- the trampling of which is a grave offense to Islam.
The university is currently weighing whether to punish the students even though they couldn't have known. It is expected to hold a disciplinary hearing in the coming weeks. It has already investigated them for "incivility," "inciting violence" and creating "a hostile environment" -- and will soon decide whether to expel, suspend or warn the College Republicans.
Alternatively, the school could just drop this whole profile in hypersensitivity. Think about it for a moment: An American college campus is weighing whether to exile its Republican student group for unknowingly showing disrespect for a religious figure. This is undoubtedly the first time this has happened in America this century and probably in the century or two before it. Last we checked, the taxpayer-funded San Francisco State is not a madrassa. But in this case, for all intents and purposes, it is acting like one.
The complainers effectively insist that non-Arabic-speaking non-Muslims should be held accountable for not knowing that two terrorist groups' flags bear the name of Allah, and for unknowingly committing an act which they deem to be offensive.
Who's more "uncivil," the students who stomped the flags, or the radical opponents of free speech and their cowardly friends in the administrative offices?
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the scrappy campus watchdog that alerted us to the case, is pushing the school to drop it before hearings begin. The school should do so immediately. No one was injured, no damage was incurred and no insult to any religious figure was intended. The offended parties should grow up. America is a diverse place with many religions and customs, none of which trump the right to free speech.
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I know this is an editoral piece but
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The university is currently weighing whether to punish the students even though they couldn't have known.
They very well could have known what they were doing.
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An American college campus is weighing whether to exile its Republican student group for unknowingly showing disrespect for a religious figure
Once again how can you be sure they didn't know.
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No one was injured, no damage was incurred and no insult to any religious figure was intended
Sure are trying to deflect blame by pleading ignorance aren't they.
Free speech issue,they should not be punished. Especially with American flags being burned at demostrations,but don't try and tell me they didn't knowwhat they were doing.
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Everyone has gone way too far and stupid with getting so uptight about things concerning religion and religious-related "messages" of some sort. Everyones religious beliefs should be respected the same. I almost want to laugh at how preoccupied people become with being self-righteous. Obviously folks really do not have enough important things to occupy themselves with and narcissitically want the attention of others. This country if filled with crack-pots, jokers, idiot left wingers, idiot right wingers and plenty I left out. Take up gardening, painting or playing cards if your that bored.
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Little did they know, the flags bear the name of Allah in Arabic script -- the trampling of which is a grave offense to Islam.
I would think that followers of Islam would be just as offended, if not more so, by the fact that Allah's name is on the flag of known terrorist organizations... But, oh well... insanity is the norm in that region of the world.
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Little did they know, the flags bear the name of Allah in Arabic script -- the trampling of which is a grave offense to Islam.
I would think that followers of Islam would be just as offended, if not more so, by the fact that Allah's name is on the flag of known terrorist organizations...Â* But, oh well... insanity is the norm in that region of the world.
And they march into battle with their own double standards proudly waving...
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