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Minnesota college students vote against honoring 9/11 victims, saying it’s offensive to Muslims
leoaffairs.com ^ | november 25, 2015

Posted on 11/26/2015 4:45:10 PM PST by lowbridge

Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns that Muslim students would be offended.

Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative realized that the university wasn't doing anything to memorialize 9/11.

So, on October 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to asking the university to institute a "moment of recognition" during the mornings of all future September 11ths.

The resolution in no way referred to Islam or to whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. "It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year."

But according to the Minnesota Republic, the resolution proved oddly controversial. MSA Director of Diversity and Inclusion, David Algadi, voiced "severe criticism" of the resolution.

Algadi was not the only one with this opinion. A majority of student government representatives sided with him, voting down the resolution in a 36-23 vote this month. If students had their way, there would be no moment of silence at UMN on Sept. 11, 2016.

But after the university became "inundated" with demands for a rebuke of the vote, UMN President Eric Kaler announced that he would formalize the moment of silence anyway. Kaler told the local press that he "wanted to make sure folks were aware that the U is committed to honoring the victims."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 911; davidalgadi; education; erickaler; minnesota; muslims; theomenon
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To: lowbridge

,,,,,, want to see offensive ,,,, try watching a muzzie beheading an American journalist you spoiled rotten little daisy .


21 posted on 11/26/2015 4:59:59 PM PST by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: Lurker
Dave Algadi needs to be beaten to death by 9/11 survivors and the family members of the fallen. Remember, I was a witness to this atrocity. I watched the tower fall. I could kick this guy to little bloody pieces for his a-holity. He is a traitor to the memory of those killed simply because they were hard-working Americans who had gone to work, or emergency workers trying to save lives.

JUMPER after he had to jump or be burned to death:

And these little wah-wah pukes are afraid of offending Muslim slime wads?

22 posted on 11/26/2015 5:01:12 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

You’re right. I’ve had it with these assholes.


23 posted on 11/26/2015 5:03:47 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker
MSA Director of Diversity and Inclusion, David Algadi,

Dave Algadi needs an ass kicking.

Dave Algadi would like an ass kicking. He's looser than a box of Fruit Loops. My gadar is flopping wrists from 10 miles off.

L

24 posted on 11/26/2015 5:04:15 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: jacob allen
Odumbo says 9/11 has nothing to do with Muslims.

AND ISIL is not Islamic.

He is way beyond DELUSIONAL........
25 posted on 11/26/2015 5:04:26 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: lowbridge

This is a new low.

I suppose Pear Harbor day is next. Can’t offend the Japanese you know...


26 posted on 11/26/2015 5:05:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: EinNYC

They think they’re so SMART, overturning any and all canons of decency just to show that they can.

This is wickedness, as if anybody had to explicitly say it, but I did anyhow.


27 posted on 11/26/2015 5:05:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: lowbridge

Well, it is Minnesota, after all.


28 posted on 11/26/2015 5:06:23 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

But inclusion for sympathy for the victims... my my no.

Even CAIR was telling us it was horrible... why is this guy smarter even than CAIR?!?


29 posted on 11/26/2015 5:06:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: lowbridge

If a 9/11 tragedy happened today, we would never be made privy to the nationality of the terrorists who carried it out! If today’s PC climate was in place on 9/11/01, we would still be in the dark as to WHO took control of the planes and murdered so many Americans...


30 posted on 11/26/2015 5:08:24 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: lowbridge

There are times when I am ashamed of being a college instructor. If I worked there, I hope I would have the courage to speak truth to stupidity, and then quit.


31 posted on 11/26/2015 5:08:55 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HarleyLady27

Amen!


32 posted on 11/26/2015 5:12:09 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: lowbridge
David what his name has a youtube video
33 posted on 11/26/2015 5:12:19 PM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: lowbridge

If I were parent of a student I’D yank my kid out so fast...


34 posted on 11/26/2015 5:13:00 PM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: lowbridge

Memorializing 9/11 would only be offensive to Muslims if Muslims supported what happened; nobody worries about offending Presbyterians or Buddhists by calling to mind those victimized by the terrorists that day.

By using that rationale, those university pinheads are only reinforcing the proposition that the mindset of Islam is tied to that atrocity (which of course it is).


35 posted on 11/26/2015 5:16:03 PM PST by Stosh
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To: lowbridge
"Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns that Muslim students would be offended."

Wake up morons. The fact that you're still breathing offends Muslims.

36 posted on 11/26/2015 5:16:28 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Popman

Didn’t some Muslims die in the towers?

Maybe they’ll demand a their own Moment of Ululation


37 posted on 11/26/2015 5:19:09 PM PST by digger48
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To: mass55th
The fact that you're still breathing offends Muslims.

You said it.

38 posted on 11/26/2015 5:20:07 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Stosh

Bulls eye


39 posted on 11/26/2015 5:20:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: lowbridge
What's their mascot?

It ought to be the Minnesota Morons.

40 posted on 11/26/2015 5:21:02 PM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It's witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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