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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
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To: Bitsy

But a bunch of Mexicans chanting “Osama...Osama” at a soccer game is perfectly okiley dokiley.


81 posted on 09/22/2010 6:45:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Rangers Magic Number - 6)
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To: pepperdog
Muslims offended again?

That's a miscast. The only person "offended" is David Green, an academic liberal and author of the original article.

82 posted on 09/22/2010 6:46:34 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Red in Blue PA

This idiot managed to get all the left-wing talking points into two paragraphs. The event must have really upset him. The problem is, these so-called academics, who are actually leftist polemicists, have way too much influence at universities. So it wouldn’t surprise me if such displays of enthusiasm for the United States are banned. After all, Muslims are now the Left’s favorite “oppressed minority”.


83 posted on 09/22/2010 6:47:31 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I am offended by the Muslims being offended by our acting as though we love the USA. We are not filled with hatred as they evidently are. If you want to yell for Muslim, go live a Muslim country where you will not hear “USA, USA, USA’.


84 posted on 09/22/2010 6:53:31 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: MrB

Wow, thank you!


85 posted on 09/22/2010 7:01:59 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Renderofveils

I’ve never been prouder to have family members who are NCSU alumni. That picture is awesome. I’ll never mock the “Wolfie” hand gesture again.


86 posted on 09/22/2010 7:30:31 AM PDT by Spike Knotts
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To: Red in Blue PA

Don’t argue that patriotism offends Muslims, and then turn around and say that Muslims make perfect patriots. But, of course, that’s exactly what liberals do.


87 posted on 09/22/2010 7:52:11 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

FUDG!


88 posted on 09/22/2010 7:56:14 AM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is America. Learn the rules.


89 posted on 09/22/2010 7:58:54 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Red in Blue PA

What a crock of sh**! Anyone who is offended by the USA chant, the flag or any other display of patriotism should just get the f*** out of our country. USA, USA, USA, chant it boys, give the muslim a**holes something to bitch about.


90 posted on 09/22/2010 8:46:24 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Red in Blue PA

Insidious! Insidious! Insidious! Insidious!


91 posted on 09/22/2010 9:03:22 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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To: TomGuy

This is sad but true. Eventually they will want all of their acts of religion out in the open. They are a disease to America and the disease is becoming an outbreak.


92 posted on 09/22/2010 12:17:14 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander
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To: facedown

Yep... Just another Ward Churchill/Rev Wright/Kevin Barrett wannabee...


93 posted on 09/22/2010 12:55:30 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: turfmann

I don’t give a flying f**k what Muslim students think!


94 posted on 09/22/2010 1:26:00 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord,For His Name Alone Is Exaulted)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Michael Medved had this nitwit on this afternoon and it was great. This fellow has a PhD in Sociology of Education and works on research regarding 'education of at risk youth' or something like that.

He was an absolute caricature of a liberal. Arrogant, rude, overbearing, convinced Michael 'knew nothing about anything', and unable to make a coherent argument. He was good at arguing, just not coherently.

He was so over the top I almost can't help but think this was a put up job. Yet it could be real - there are liberals this idiotic and irritating. And at the end, my reaction was that the best things for him would be 1) for him to not reproduce and 2) to be clubbed like a baby seal.

95 posted on 09/22/2010 5:27:54 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: This I Wonder32460
Who is that woman they murdered b y burying and stoning? When did this happen and what was the supposed crime she committed? (1) I don't know who she is. (2) The picture was taken sometime after the invention of photography. (3) The Baptists didn't do it.
96 posted on 09/23/2010 11:05:19 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: Renderofveils
Purdue Football 9/11
97 posted on 09/23/2010 2:17:59 PM PDT by ustheliving
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To: MichaelP
Purdue Football 9/11
98 posted on 09/23/2010 2:18:15 PM PDT by ustheliving
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To: ustheliving
PURDUE FOOTBALL 9/11/2010 I hope no one was offened ....... Sorry for the re-posting, this is my first attempt at posting photos and I'm trying to post larger images.
99 posted on 09/23/2010 9:10:29 PM PDT by ustheliving
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