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.
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I get it now
This entire country has gone bass-ackwards.
Welcome to Wonderland.
"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.
Amen. "bass - ackwards" was one of my dad's favorites.
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.
Gotta love the college Republicans. I get a big kick out of their Affirmative Action Bakesales, too. They are like Scrappleface illustrated.
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.
Those flags should have been bepissed.
Islam needs to be desecrated anyway. It's just the worlds largest, longest running terrorist organization.
ping
Why apologize? They have as much right to "desecrate religion" as any blogger of Edwards does.
I wouldn't burn a flag, but I'll defend another persons right to do so.
I have a grandson named Dreagon. I thought he was the only person in the world with that name...
You would think that "Allah" brand toilet paper would be a big seller.
That photo never ceases to bring a smile to my face.
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.
Me too.
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