Posted on 04/08/2015 12:30:50 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The University of Michigan canceled a scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” on Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film glorifies a “mass killer” and perpetuates anti-Muslim stereotypes.
An online petition, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the school of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the Chris Kyle biopic, The College Fix reported.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim and anti-MENA rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” the letter reads. “Chris Kyle was a racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians. Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity and watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to MENA and Muslim students who are too often reminded of how little the media and world values their lives.”
The petition achieved it goal in getting the school to cancel the showing, which was scheduled for Friday. The Center for Campus Involvement, which oversees student activities and is run by university employees, announced its decision Tuesday on social media, The College Fix reported.
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Lol!
Zactly...
There’s a movie with a gun over there
What it is, I don’t really care
Stop children, saferoom, everybody get a teddy bear now
Yeah, saw the liberal panic over American Sniper there.
So they crammed Paddington Bear down their throats instead.
(The movie adaptation of Paddington? SUX.)
Fine. Sow the graphic and un-censored videos of their fellow Muslims beheading innocent people for fun, the Boston Marathon bombing, planes flying into the WTC and pentagon, people jumping for the WTC, etc. Islam is violent and needs to be removed for the face of this earth.
Looks like it’s back on http://nypost.com/2015/04/09/michigan-changes-its-mind-will-now-show-american-sniper/.
The veteran alumni must have rung their bell good.
Looks like University of Milquetoasts resents the University of Wisconsin-Madistan’s reign as “Berkeley of the Midwest”...
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