Pro-ISIS messages on Youngstown State rock prompt shock, anger

WKBN ^ | 11/23/15 | Amanda Smith

[Lera]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Fear of terrorism has swept much of the west in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, and Monday, that fear hit home for Youngstown residents.

Youngstown State University Students rallied to re-paint the school’s famed rock Monday afternoon to cover over a message supporting terrorist group ISIS written earlier in the day, but not before it sparked shock and outrage.

Multiple viewers submitted messages to WKBN with photos of the rock, which is located outside the school’s Kilcawley Center and is frequently used to advertise for events on campus. One side said, “YSU supports ISIS.” Other messages seen in viewer-submitted photos are, “France deserves destruction,” “Jihad over God ISIS,” and “We are coming.”

[Lera]

They are here !

Better photo here https://twitter.com/ILNewsFlash/status/668887872137752576

[Opinionated Blowhard]

My hunch is that this is a couple of stupid, ignorant kids trying to be rebellious.

[knarf]

THAT kind of thinking in November 2015 is dumb !!!

[realcleanguy]

My hunch it was a group of LW democrats who actually believe ISIS are just like the Colonists in the US in the late 1700’s

[The_Media_never_lie]

Wont get media coverage; was not a fecal swastika at the black dorm, or cotton balls at the black student union. Does not fit agenda.

[null and void]

[El Cid]

"Jihad over God" does not really sound like something an ISIS Jihadi would have written.
An atheist punk - yes. An ISIS Jihadi, no.
The ISIS followers are religious. Their problem is that they are following a book that was ghost written by Satan, and they are serving him - not God.

[Lera]

The other side of the rock has the arabic writing on it .
I posted a link to it above

[cowboyway]

The ISIS followers are religious

With all due respect, ISIS, and all other followers of Islam, are cultists.

[Lera]

the other side of the rock has the arabic writing on it
I posted a link to that photo

[mylife]

There is a large Syrian population in the area, Lebanese too.
They have always been good neighbors in the past.*

[wideawake]

Since the wording is simply uncharacteristic of jihadists, I assume this was done by local leftists hoping to inspire a politically useful backlash attack.

It won't work.

[mylife]

Petey says "Screw ISIS"

[Lera]

https://twitter.com/ILNewsFlash/status/668887872137752576

look at the wording on the other side of the rock that the news did not show

[Whenifhow]

Ohio Ping

photo here https://twitter.com/ILNewsFlash/status/668887872137752576

[mumblypeg]

The Arabic writing was spray painted using a stencil, as were the letters “ISIS” in the squares.
The RCP uses stencils.
Ergo, quite possibly the RCP’s handiwork.

[Blue Jays]

"...With all due respect, ISIS, and all other followers of Islam, are cultists..."

No respect is needed when it comes to ISIS and/or their followers.

[ScottinVA]

I have no doubt there’s a strain of pro-ISIS sympathies running through campuses in this country.

[defconw]

The whole town is leftest. There are a ton of Arabs in the area. They used to be mostly Christians, but that has changed.

[Pontiac]

who is RCP?