Posted on 09/12/2021 3:58:22 PM PDT by Robwin
A student at Washington University unilaterally removed thousands of 9/11 memorial flags and piled them into garbage bags in a protest against Islamophobia and US military interventions, according to the college newspaper.
In a video posted online, the student can be seen holding multiple plastic bags containing the small American flags that he had removed from a memorial on Mudd Field at the university in St Louis, Missouri.
The flags — a total of 2,977 — were placed on the lawn to honor the people who lost their lives in the attacks 20 years on.
The student has since been identified by the university's newspaper, Student Life, as Fadel Alkilani, the vice president of finance for the student union.
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I’m in StL, and am livid. I’m calling Was U tmr, the man bun terrorist in training needs thrown out of there.
Defund academia.
Let me guess, this has received very little coverage on local media?
I stand corrected, there is coverage on KMOV.
“It’s called THEFT!
He’s a common thief.”
Chop off his hands
165 million Americans are totally fine with this.
It’s Islamophobic to honor the people slaughtered by Islamic terrorists.
"Back in his Fatherland, they would push this Queer off a 4 story building head first."
Aww.
He’s got him a little ‘man bun’...
Insurrection!!!
Really? That’s not what the Vice President said in her speech at shanksville. So I went and looked it up, bearing in mind that most of the many articles available decry the anti-Muslim backlash, but provide no stats. I found a 2017 article by Pew Research. The numbers are ridiculously small. High to low hundreds for assaults and intimidation and vandalism. In other words roughly one out of every 600,000 people in the US are subject to anti-Muslim hate crimes ( accepting for the sake of argument that that title doesn’t cover a whole lot of territory.) PS, the Jews beat them as most victimized by about +75% every year
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We’re doomed if we can’t shake millions or imbeciles from the notion that lawful protest extends to destroying other people’s property
Drive an american flag right into iphis heart!
I’m thinking of folks who have second homes.
All these invaders gotta have a home, and the vast majority of second homes have electricity and plumbing that works. How you goin’ to get them out?
“It’s Islamophobic...”
A phobia is an UNREASONABLE fear...
All Kill-ani
bttt
Would it have been any different if he had done that bilaterally, or multilaterally?
My point is: What does the word "unilaterally" contribute to a discussion of this issue and/or simple presentation of the facts of the case?
Wouldn't the word "illegally" or the phrase "without the permission of the school authorities" have served as well - or, in fact, better?
Regards,
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