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Academic: Student Chant of "USA" at a Football Game is Offensive to Muslims
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/09/20/academic-at-university-of-illinois-the-students-nativist-display-on-911-of-chanting-usa-at-a-football-game-is-offensive-to-muslims/ ^

Posted on 09/22/2010 4:23:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.

The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: campuscommies; cmapuscommies; college; communism; communist; crapheads; diversity; freespeech; fumuzpos; illini; immigration; islam; leftistprofessors; marxist; muslims; obama; obamanation; palin; pciskillingus; traitor
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To: Red in Blue PA
All.

F*****.

"Academics."

Must.

Hang.

21 posted on 09/22/2010 4:58:03 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: shibumi

I’m offended by the fact that my tax money goes to support that son of a b*tch.


22 posted on 09/22/2010 4:59:13 AM PDT by reg45
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To: Red in Blue PA

Just another Ward Churchill wannabe.


23 posted on 09/22/2010 5:00:20 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another brilliant, really really smart, terribly bright, intellectual genius dedicates his limitless intelligence to the internationalist point of view.

HOw wonderful, how brilliant, how smart, how insightful.

Now, maybe he can also dedicate his brilliance to explaining why Muslims think it’s o.k. to wash their feet in the sinks where non-muslims wash their hands and sometimes take a drink?


24 posted on 09/22/2010 5:01:55 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Altura Ct.
The real problem. Can't have groups of white people.

.....unless it is academics of course.

Then it is perfectly acceptable.

Who gave this clown a degree?
25 posted on 09/22/2010 5:03:49 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: Red in Blue PA

That was written by a radical, self-loathing marxist who loves the jihadis. Crazy to the core.


26 posted on 09/22/2010 5:06:34 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I heard on Fox this morning that in the UK it is illegal to wave the Union Jack because it offends the muslims.

I saw how the muslims treated the British soldiers when they returned from Afghanistan. It was disgusting.

Political correctness - diversity - tolerance - all one sided.

So...we have the diversity thing but what UNITES us?


27 posted on 09/22/2010 5:07:24 AM PDT by 30Moves
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To: Red in Blue PA

I f...ing love this forum!!!!! Go wolfpack!!!


28 posted on 09/22/2010 5:09:10 AM PDT by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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To: shibumi
Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere;

An obviously incorrect premise. The rest of the rant, based on this, is therefore just as false.

29 posted on 09/22/2010 5:13:59 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

500 Bucks say he voted for the Dems!


30 posted on 09/22/2010 5:15:43 AM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: Westbrook

Islam is offensive to me.

In fact, it is a direct threat to the rights endowed to me by my Creator.
__________________________________________________________

Islam is offensive to me too!


31 posted on 09/22/2010 5:19:22 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: expatguy
"500 Bucks say he voted for the Dems!"

Well, the only other option was for him to have spent election day stoned out of his gourd.
32 posted on 09/22/2010 5:20:49 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Red in Blue PA

SCREW THEM...get out or join the yelling USA...USA


33 posted on 09/22/2010 5:21:56 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Student Chant of "USA" at a Football Game is Offensive to Muslims

In the spirit of cultural tolerance, however, DEATH to AMERICA is acceptable.

34 posted on 09/22/2010 5:23:29 AM PDT by Boston Blackie (The zoo has a African lion, the White House has a lyin' African.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

It won’t be long before such muslim groups will be demanding that sports events (including professional) be halted during the muslim call-to-prayer time.


35 posted on 09/22/2010 5:30:43 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: NTHockey
For a supposed intellectual, this POS is as dumb as a rock. Anybody care to inform him there is NO draft;

It doesn't make him any less of a POS but he didn't say there was a draft. What he did was mention poverty-drafted men, implying that they had no choice but to enlist in the military because they didn't have the means to go to college like the privileged white boys at the game.

36 posted on 09/22/2010 5:31:39 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Red in Blue PA
The article comments in the Daily Illini warm my heart. They are 95% pro-American and hostile to the anti-USA author.
37 posted on 09/22/2010 5:31:49 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Brain-dead sissies like this always remind me of the John Lovitz SNL skit “Tales of Ribaldry.”

It was the skit in which he and other cast members would dress in 18th century English formal wear, complete with powdered wigs, and discuss “scandalous” literature of the period.

They'd hold their noses in the air, sip tea with their pinkies extended, read somewhat salty passages from various books, then laugh and giggle like teen-aged school girls.

The brainiac who wrote this piece would fit right in.

38 posted on 09/22/2010 5:34:17 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

While muslims stone women,behead Christians and Jews,and bomb shopping malls full of innocent people;liberals prepare for their annual traditions of villifying Columbus and the Pilgrims , and waging war against Christmas trees and crucifixes......


39 posted on 09/22/2010 5:40:18 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Renderofveils
That's awesome!!!
40 posted on 09/22/2010 5:47:46 AM PDT by ladyvet
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