Posted on 11/26/2015 4:45:10 PM PST by lowbridge
Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns that Muslim students would be offended.
Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative realized that the university wasn't doing anything to memorialize 9/11.
So, on October 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to asking the university to institute a "moment of recognition" during the mornings of all future September 11ths.
The resolution in no way referred to Islam or to whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. "It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year."
But according to the Minnesota Republic, the resolution proved oddly controversial. MSA Director of Diversity and Inclusion, David Algadi, voiced "severe criticism" of the resolution.
Algadi was not the only one with this opinion. A majority of student government representatives sided with him, voting down the resolution in a 36-23 vote this month. If students had their way, there would be no moment of silence at UMN on Sept. 11, 2016.
But after the university became "inundated" with demands for a rebuke of the vote, UMN President Eric Kaler announced that he would formalize the moment of silence anyway. Kaler told the local press that he "wanted to make sure folks were aware that the U is committed to honoring the victims."
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,,,,,, want to see offensive ,,,, try watching a muzzie beheading an American journalist you spoiled rotten little daisy .
JUMPER after he had to jump or be burned to death:
And these little wah-wah pukes are afraid of offending Muslim slime wads?
You’re right. I’ve had it with these assholes.
Dave Algadi needs an ass kicking.
Dave Algadi would like an ass kicking. He's looser than a box of Fruit Loops. My gadar is flopping wrists from 10 miles off.
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This is a new low.
I suppose Pear Harbor day is next. Can’t offend the Japanese you know...
They think they’re so SMART, overturning any and all canons of decency just to show that they can.
This is wickedness, as if anybody had to explicitly say it, but I did anyhow.
Well, it is Minnesota, after all.
But inclusion for sympathy for the victims... my my no.
Even CAIR was telling us it was horrible... why is this guy smarter even than CAIR?!?
If a 9/11 tragedy happened today, we would never be made privy to the nationality of the terrorists who carried it out! If today’s PC climate was in place on 9/11/01, we would still be in the dark as to WHO took control of the planes and murdered so many Americans...
There are times when I am ashamed of being a college instructor. If I worked there, I hope I would have the courage to speak truth to stupidity, and then quit.
Amen!
If I were parent of a student I’D yank my kid out so fast...
Memorializing 9/11 would only be offensive to Muslims if Muslims supported what happened; nobody worries about offending Presbyterians or Buddhists by calling to mind those victimized by the terrorists that day.
By using that rationale, those university pinheads are only reinforcing the proposition that the mindset of Islam is tied to that atrocity (which of course it is).
Wake up morons. The fact that you're still breathing offends Muslims.
Didn’t some Muslims die in the towers?
Maybe they’ll demand a their own Moment of Ululation
You said it.
Bulls eye
It ought to be the Minnesota Morons.
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