Posted on 10/11/2007 7:42:12 PM PDT by neverdem
A national conservative group yesterday called on George Washington University to expel students who admitted that they targeted the group in a hoax that covered the campus with hundreds of anti-Muslim posters.
"Vicious personal attacks levied on students are intolerable and should not go unpunished," Ron Robinson, president of the Young America"s Foundation, told university President Steven Knapp.
In a letter (downloads PDF) obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Robinson cited a statement by Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger, who said he "would support expulsion" of students responsible for distributing the "heinous" posters.
The foundation was the target of posters displayed around the university"s Foggy Bottom campus Monday that proclaimed "Hate Muslims? So Do We!"
Muslim students at the university said they felt attacked by the posters.
A group of seven students — including a nationally known anti-war activist and an officer of the university"s Progressive Student Union — took responsibility Tuesday, saying the hoax was aimed at "exposing Islamophobic racism."
A student conservative leader said university officials initially accused the foundation of printing the posters, which Mr. Knapp has condemned as "reprehensible."
"We were treated as suspects until the university got all the facts right," said Sergio Gor, a senior and foundation activist. "The only reason we got attacked was because we"re a conservative group."
Mr. Gor said he was "shocked and appalled" by the posters, which targeted "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," a nationwide event planned later this month by the foundation.
In a letter to the Hatchet, a campus newspaper, graduate student Adam Kokesh, senior Brian Tierney and five other students took responsibility for the hoax, which they called a "creative political action."
"We exposed the upcoming Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week ... for the celebration of racism it is," the students wrote.
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Aww it was just a harmless little parody, right?
I share your opinion on that.
I helped on a bi-partisan election committee once in a non-partisan election. Never had a seen such bigotry as I saw by Democrats for a black Democratic candidate who was obviously the best choice. It started with hand wringing when another promenant candidate didn't surface from the ranks of the left and before long the cries of "those people aren't ready..." and the like were tragic-comic drama to behold.
Democrats have defended slavery until it couldn't be kept and then defended Jim Crow until it wouldn't survive and then made mascots of all minority groups they could spin to believe their "power sharing" lies.
I know this is a bit off the topic of this thread but hey... why do you think abortion and public education still exist? Teach the blacks that they are hated by "the man" and convince them that it is because they are having too many children then take them by the nose to their nearest "Planned Parenthood" office and murder their offspring.
What better way for the elitist liberal snobs to eradicate those they deem to be inferior to themselves than to talk those that are (in the liberal's mind) inferior into doing the dirty work of racial genocide to themselves?
There is a reason 37% of all abortions in this country are performed on black children. Most of the rest are performed on what those same racist liberal pigs would call white trash.
Agreed!
Public spankings are necessary here - if they act like children, treat them like children.
That's ridiculous. The reason they're "scumbags" is because they are the ones who pull schtuff like this, and you want to good guys to imitate them?!
Kokesh my be using his GI bill.
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