‘American Sniper’ too violent for U. of Michigan; students shown ‘Paddington’ bear flick instead

The Washington Times ^ | April 8, 2015 | Jessica Chasmar

[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.

[Timber Rattler]

Under this weird logic, Alvin York and Audie Murphy would be considered mass murderers too...

[Vendome]

How sweet....

[longfellow]

Do they want a nipple on that.

[Westbrook]

> perpetuates anti-Muslim stereotypes.

That’s the REAL problem they have with it.

Of course, those are not “stereotypes” but the bloody FACTS.

[dfwgator]

Wonder how they felt about “Enemy at the Gates”?

[rockinqsranch]

Probably most of those 300 “students” in Michigan were Muslim’s.

[southernindymom]

It’s U of Michigan.......

[cripplecreek]

Romper Room seems about right for these pathetic whiny little babies.

[tgusa]

I think I just became an Ohio State fan.

[LeonardFMason]

Where are the 30,000 students DEMANDING it be shown?

[GeronL]

everypne to the safe room! we have playdoh and stuffed animals for safety

[VanDeKoik]

Millennials love censorship.

[knarf]

THESE are the people that will vote for the ONE out of the lot that will become a politician, and between them all, will perpetuate the lies

Oh sure, they'll wake up sometime by the time they're thirty ... but God alone knows what damage they will do because they're historically stupid

We are already a nation ignorant of America.

[W.]

The muslim cowards and their liberal democrat sympathizers can’t have the real truth about the militant side of the muslim religion and its effects on weak-minded raghead fools exposed for all to see.

[MinstrelBoy]

But “50 Shades of Gray” will be okay when it comes out on DVD.

[WayneS]

WTF is a MENA?

[WayneS]

Nevermind. I see it.

And I still don’t care if they are offended.

[BatGuano]

I, for one, do not value the lives of those who support Islamic Jihadists. If we continue to coddle these vermin, we will be subjected to their rule in short time. Obama is one who supports, in a not too secret fashion, these people whose name he refuses to call.
U of Michigan is another school populated by those willing to hand over the keys to our once great country. A POX on them all!

[WayneS]

The Center for Campus Involvement

An oxymoronic name if ever there was one.

[AppyPappy]

Maybe they could show the AppState loss again.