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Is flag desecration wrong? Or a Right? (SF State University)
The Current Online ^ | 2-11-07 | Adam Wiseman

Posted on 02/20/2007 4:03:41 PM PST by MooseMan

"I definitely expected people to be upset, but you know what? I don't really care what they think of us desecrating the flags of terrorists." Leigh Wolf, a member of the College Republicans at San Francisco State University, said this past October while talking with a reporter from the student newspaper, the [X]press.

Controversy sparked when the College Republicans at SFSU decided to stand and walk on the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas in protest against terrorism.

The group did not realize at the beginning of the protest that several of the symbols on the flags represented Allah, or God, in the Islamic faith.

Some heated exchanges took place between some students and the College Republicans, and the flags were altered in order to take the religious significance out of the protest.

"The goal was to desecrate Hezbollah and Hamas, not Islam," Wolf said in the article.

The protest went forward and the members of the College Republicans walked on the flags amid the protesters.

Unfortunately, these events led to a resolution by the student government at SFSU in November of last year, stating that the College Republicans tried to incite violence. If the group is found guilty of the allegations they could be sanctioned to apologize or even full removal from the University.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.www.thecurrentonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: flagburning
Burning the American flag is a right, burning other flags is wrong.

I get it now

1 posted on 02/20/2007 4:03:43 PM PST by MooseMan
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To: MooseMan

This entire country has gone bass-ackwards.


2 posted on 02/20/2007 4:07:34 PM PST by USMCWife6869
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To: MooseMan
Burning the American flag is a right, burning other flags is wrong. I get it now

Welcome to Wonderland.

3 posted on 02/20/2007 4:09:42 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: MooseMan

"The goal was to desecrate Hezbollah and Hamas, not Islam," Wolf said in the article.

I'm not sure where one stops and the other starts, and neither are they.


4 posted on 02/20/2007 4:11:10 PM PST by cdcdawg
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To: USMCWife6869

Amen. "bass - ackwards" was one of my dad's favorites.


5 posted on 02/20/2007 4:13:21 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: MooseMan
Kinda depends on who's side you're on....

Amazing... the American flag doesn't matter...

Hillary says the Confederate battle flag in S.C. does....

I guess I'm not smart enough to figure this out.

6 posted on 02/20/2007 4:14:39 PM PST by nctexan
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To: aliquando

Gotta love the college Republicans. I get a big kick out of their Affirmative Action Bakesales, too. They are like Scrappleface illustrated.


7 posted on 02/20/2007 4:15:39 PM PST by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: aliquando

If I were there I would have defecated and urinated on both those flags and called it "art" but that would have elevated the status of those flags.


8 posted on 02/20/2007 4:16:48 PM PST by Finatic
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To: MooseMan

Those flags should have been bepissed.


9 posted on 02/20/2007 4:17:12 PM PST by GSlob
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To: MooseMan
"The goal was to desecrate Hezbollah and Hamas, not Islam," Wolf said in the article.

Islam needs to be desecrated anyway. It's just the worlds largest, longest running terrorist organization.

10 posted on 02/20/2007 4:17:15 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: knighthawk; Alouette

ping


11 posted on 02/20/2007 4:17:46 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MooseMan

Why apologize? They have as much right to "desecrate religion" as any blogger of Edwards does.


12 posted on 02/20/2007 4:30:42 PM PST by Dreagon
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To: MooseMan

I wouldn't burn a flag, but I'll defend another persons right to do so.


13 posted on 02/20/2007 4:32:42 PM PST by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Dreagon

I have a grandson named Dreagon. I thought he was the only person in the world with that name...


14 posted on 02/20/2007 4:34:42 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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To: MooseMan
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15 posted on 02/20/2007 4:42:51 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: MooseMan

You would think that "Allah" brand toilet paper would be a big seller.


16 posted on 02/20/2007 4:55:33 PM PST by Popocatapetl
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To: b4its2late

That photo never ceases to bring a smile to my face.


17 posted on 02/20/2007 6:22:36 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: MooseMan

Signs and symbols of Alah/Allah are not symbols of the one true God. Personally, folks could make mud flaps out of those rags but they would not do a very good job of flapping mud.


18 posted on 02/20/2007 6:34:02 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: festus

Me too.


19 posted on 02/20/2007 6:42:29 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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