It's pretty funny.
Posted on 11/12/2013 7:47:30 AM PST by SJackson
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When Opposing Jihad Is ‘Racist’
Posted By Robert Spencer On November 12, 2013 @ 12:39 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 17 Comments
“Islamophobia” has broken out at Washington University of St. Louis, sparking outrage, grief, an “open solidarity forum,” and an avalanche of groveling apologies from university administrators.
It all started, according to the university’s independent student paper Student Life, with a “controversial Halloween photograph” that went “viral” and became an “emotional trigger” for Muslim students, “bringing back memories of personal experiences with racism.”
The offending photo featured a group of students apparently dressed as soldiers pointing waterguns at a student dressed as Osama bin Laden, or perhaps as a generic Islamic terrorist.
Oh, the hatred! The racism! The “Islamophobia”! A Muslim student, Mahroh Jahangiri, posted a screenshot of the horrific photo on her Facebook page, with its original caption, which showed that the students in the photo themselves approached the idea of fighting against jihad terror with a certain irony: “Halloween ‘13. Amurrica!!” But the irony was lost on Jahangiri, who added a seven-paragraph caption of her own, fulminating that the photo represented “a broader, more aggressive (and apparently violent) Islamophobia rampant here at WashU and in the United States.”
Jahangiri, who has served as an intern with the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that as a Muslim she had been discriminated against at the university, called om students to “RAISE HELL ABOUT THIS,” and complained: “I find it hard to believe that if this was a black man or a gay man or a Latino man with guns aimed at his face, that black students or queer students or Latino students would not have been up in arms. But because this costume did not represent my friends’ communities, it did not warrant a response.”
Of course, a black man or a gay man or a Latino man didn’t murder 3,000 people on September 11, 2001 in the name of being black or gay or Latino. Black men and gay men and Latino men have not declared their determination of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions,” as has the Muslim Brotherhood, of which the Muslim Students Association is an affiliate.
Nonetheless, Washington University Vice Chancellor Sharon Stahl, her eyes no doubt still stinging from being subjected to the visual assault of having to view this photo, appeared at the Muslim Students Association’s “open solidarity forum,” at which she issued an abject apology to Muslim students and took the fall for other administrators: “I am the person, the only person, to whom this posting was sent on Halloween,” she said, “I made a grave mistake in not responding sooner than I did. I deeply regret that. If I could go back and undo this, I would, but I can’t, so I have to accept the responsibility of my mistake. I apologize, and I hope that moving forward you will be able to find it in your hearts to give me that grace.”
Despite Stahl’s willingness to fall on her sword alone, however, she was joined by Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Provost Holden Thorp in a joint statement on what is clearly the worst thing ever to have happened at Washington University of St. Louis: “As a community,” the bemused triumvirate wrote, “one of our highest priorities is to maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome. Images like the one that was posted on a social media site by students on Halloween and the impact it has had reminds us that we all must be united in this effort and it must be on-going. Whatever the intention, the image has offended and hurt members of our community. The image also is entirely inconsistent with who we are as an institution, our values and the way in which we engage in the world around us. “We are deeply disappointed and saddened that this has occurred. We must expect better of ourselves and of each other.”
MSA president Ishaq Winters was scarcely mollified, huffing that “the gravity of this matter extends much beyond the photo itself. The ensuing, oftentimes hateful comments of fellow students expose wider concerns…the silence on the part of the administration and majority of our student body speaks to the systemic nature of the challenges to our university’s principles of inclusion and equality, challenges that we must address moving forward.”
Another Muslim student, Imran Mumtaz, was more magnanimous: “I strongly believe that the people involved in the image are college students just like us, and we’ll consider that they made a mistake. At the end of all of this, we need to accept that we need to forgive them.” However, he added that “what we need to take away from this is that we need to not just have one event and say, ‘I recognize these issues exist. I tried to commit to change by going to a solidarity forum.’ Yeah, great. But we need to realize that we need to have these discussions every day.”
Indeed we do. And at them, we need to be allowed to ask the real questions, such as: Are there Islamic jihadis waging war against the United States? Yes, there are. Isn’t the claim of Muslim organizations in the U.S. that they condemn and abhor terrorism? Yes, it is. So if that is the case, then why would the MSA object to a Halloween photograph of “soldiers” pointing guns at a “terrorist”? Shouldn’t they be applauding the capture of a “terrorist” who is “hijacking” their religion, even in a Halloween spoof? Instead, the Muslim students made the same false claim that Islamic supremacists always make regarding counter-jihadists and counter-terror efforts in general: that the fight against jihad terror somehow targets all Muslims and falsely holds them responsible for the crimes of the jihadis. Yet the only ones saying that “all Muslims” are somehow defamed by this Halloween photo, or by counter-terror efforts, are those Islamic supremacists, not foes of jihad.
Apparently absent, conspicuously so, from the MSA’s Muslim victimhood orgy was any discussion of whether Islamic jihad against non-Muslims is a reality, and of whether or not it is permissible under any circumstances to resist it. The MSA and other groups like it have been working for years to stigmatize any and all resistance to jihad terror as “racism,” and this ridiculous episode is just the latest example of how successful they have been.
In a sane world, the MSA would never have made a big deal about the photo, and if asked for comment about it, would have said that there were Islamic jihadists waging war against the U.S., and that it was perfectly reasonable and acceptable for these boys to stage a Halloween photo based on that fact.
But at Washington University of St. Louis, it is not a sane world. Noting that Islamic jihadis are at war with the U.S., and determining to defend the U.S., is “racism” and “hatred.” But the only real hatred here is the self-hatred of university administrators, who hate their country and its principles so deeply that they have allowed the defense of that nation and principles to be thoroughly demonized.
The way things are going, they will probably get the world they want. Then and only then, it will probably dawn on some of them that there was a time when they could have helped stop all this in its tracks and turned it back, and that instead, they invited it and enabled it. The world of horrors that engulfs them will be the world they so yearned for, wished for, and worked for.
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If being anti Jihad makes us racists, so be it.
Basically just more anti-white hate regardless what Spencer tries to spin it.
“My name is Mohammed but all my friends call me “Psycho”.”
It's pretty funny.
Screw the heads of Washington U and the daughter of a camel Mahroh Jahangiri. I find Muslims in my country offensive.
err.. whut??
What race is muslim? I know they consider themselves superior to non-muslim “kufir” but it encompasses those in the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Somalia, Spain, etc. Nations which also have persons of non-Islamist faith.
Knowing the Muslim code and knowing that our P.resident is a closet Muslim lover who can be surprised at anything?
So do I. They hold to a faith that aims to supersede the Constitution. They are therefore not participants in the social contract that is the Constitution, and are therefore undeserving of its protections.
For a decade now the Left and Islamist apologists have insisted that Osama Bin Laden was NOT a true muslim. Of course, Mr. Obama still saw to it that Osama was given a fitting Islamic funeral so as not to p!ss off the muslim world who deny that he was a muslim.
What is the problem with the photo, again?
Too much "spike the football"?
There is teaching by some of the clerics that since the koran is in arabic, arab is the race superior to all.
It’s really very simple. Jihadis are dark skinned, stupid, ignorant, dirty and poor. (’oppressed’)
The people who oppose them are White, Christian or Jewish and successful. (’oppressors’)
Oppressors are always wrong, and the oppressed are always right, even if they slice living heads off living bodies, film the ceremony, post it on youtube and watch it eagerly, munching on halal popcorn.
At the risk of being called a racist, people who would shoot people up, were said to have gone postal. Now, they say they went Muslim.
Off Topic...speaking of students...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3059888/posts
Ohio State Univ Muslim Student Association President arrested in Egypt
creeping sharia ^ | August 28, 2013
Posted on August 28, 2013 at 12:49:58 PM PDT by opentalk
Will he be deported from Egypt and allowed to re-enter the U.S.? via Egypt arrests US citizen son of Brotherhood figure | THE DAILY STAR.
CAIRO: Security officials say the son of an outspoken Muslim Brotherhood figure has been detained.
Mohamed Soltan’s family says he is a U.S. citizen and does not know his whereabouts. An active supporter of the Islamist group online, the 25-year-old had posted pictures of his arm after it was shot when security forces cleared out two Brotherhood sit-ins Aug. 14.
The Ohio State University graduate is the son of outspoken Muslim Brotherhood figure Salah Soltan. He was detained Monday along with four other men in the office of the pro-Brotherhood Rassd Network News service, according to security officials who spoke anonymously in line with regulations and released the information to The Associated Press late that same night.
Police said the group had plans to spread violence by inciting splits among the ranks of the army and police.
Below you will see a recent picture of Dr. Salah Sultan, The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, and Mohammed Sultan, a Ohio State University grad, and former President of the Muslim Students Association at OSU.
Off Topic...speaking of students...
Previously...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015323/posts
Media downplay Tsarnaev connection to Muslim student group
The Daily Caller ^ | May 3, 2013 | Daily Caller
Posted on May 3, 2013 at 7:16:10 AM PDT by penelopesire
Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to his college’s Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative.
Although a student leader and the mainstream media have downplayed Tsarnaev’s ties to the the group, Tsarnaev associated frequently with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
The Washington Post on April 27 reported that Tsarnaev, who has admitted his role in the Marathon terrorist bombing to police, played intramural soccer with MSA members, contradicting earlier reports that the U. Mass-Dartmouth student spurned an invitation to join the controversial Muslim Brotherhood-linked student organization.
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“For a time, Jahar played on an intramural soccer team composed of students involved with the campus Muslim Student Association,” explained the Post’s Marc Fisher, a fact that has since been missing from coverage.
In fact, Tsarnaev played soccer with the Muslim Student Association nearly every week, according to MSA Secretary Bassel Nasri in an interview with George Stephanopoulos and Diane Sawyer on April 19, 2013. Nasri simply neglected to say they were MSA games. Although Stephanopoulos described Nasri as “a soccer buddy” of Tsarnaev, neither he nor Sawyer mentioned that they were co-religionists and that the soccer games were organized by the Muslim Student Association.
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Off Topic...speaking of students...
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The Muslim Students Association’s Terror Problem
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - blog ^ | Aug 20, 2010 at 3:39 pm | n/a
Posted on August 20, 2010 at 11:34:59 PM PDT by Cindy
While it strives for respectability, the Muslim Students Association (MSA) has a dark side. For example, a 2007 report by the New York Police Department describes MSAs as “part of a growing trend of Salafi-based radicalization.”
The report lists MSAs as an example of “Salafi Influences and Incubators,” stating: “Extremists have used these university-based organizations as forums for the development and recruitment of like-minded individuals - providing a receptive platform for younger, American-born imams, to present a radical message in a way that resonates with the students.”
But the organization’s role in radicalizing other Muslims is just part of the problem. Patrick Poole shows how some of the organization’s most senior members have been implicated in a variety of terror-related conspiracies:
“These include an MSA national president who was al-Qaeda’s top financier in the U.S., as chapter president who was one of al-Qaeda’s co-founders, and a former MSA faculty advisor who is currently the terrorist most wanted by the U.S. government,” according to Poole. “Other MSA leaders have been recently identified in several domestic and international terror plots, and some currently are facing terrorism charges.”
A few of the spotlighted by Poole include:
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/08/the-muslim-students-associations-terror-problem
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No, it’s not “that simple.”
Jihadis come in all colors including white, some of them are very well educated, clean and groomed, and not necessarily poor.
You need to update your education on the subject, sir.
Probably one of the best resources for info on FR is the keyword “globaljihad.”
Fyi.
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