Posted on 04/23/2015 1:51:51 PM PDT by drewh
After originally deciding to screen the movie, the University of Maryland has reversed course and instead has canceled an upcoming showing of American Sniper on campus.
The school’s conservative group released this statement in response:
The University of Maryland Student Entertainment Events (SEE) decided to screen American Sniper on May 6 and 7, 2015. After meeting with concerned student organizations, SEE has decided to ‘postpone’ the movie.
If the University prevents a movie like this from being shown, it promotes intolerance and stifles dialogue and debate on the subject and goes directly against the atmosphere of diversity the University of Maryland purports to provide.
The university decided to cancel the screening after outcry from Muslim students on campus. The Muslim Students Association at the University of Maryland even started a petition requesting that the school pull the screening of American Sniper. In the petition, the group stated that the film “perpetuates the spread of Islamaphobia and is offensive to many Muslims around the world for good reason.”
Ironically enough, the group also requested that students “exercise their freedom of speech” by signing the petition to remove the film from campus. MSA seemingly got their wish this morning when the school decided to cancel the screening.
The University of Maryland is only one of several campuses that have faced student outcry for screening, or attempting to screen, the Oscar-winning film. Just recently, the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Michigan protested their school’s decision to cancel a campus screening. Their protests were successful as the school eventually decided to show the film as planned.
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What a lame bunch....
Sorry.
What’s the deal with the Story of O on campuses? It was screened at the University of Hawaii too.
The liberals want every generation of liberated women to see a submissive in a movie, like 50 Shades of Greige.
Some more of Obama's sons (from the muslim side of the family)?
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Both of my girls are and you're absolutely right.
One in 50,000.
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