OK, here we go — Dhimmitude and rank double-standards on U.S. college campuses — and again it’s Leftist-in-arm-with-Islamist coming out of CALIFORNIA. Tiresome? Like, totally, for sure! From WorldNetDaily:
College Republicans at San Francisco State University desecrated the name of Allah by stepping on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags, charged school officials who brought the students before a hearing yesterday.
The trouble began at an Oct. 17 anti-terrorism rally in which the students stepped on butcher paper painted to resemble the flags of the Middle East terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. The College Republicans say they simply copied the script from an image on the Internet and didn’t know it bore the name of Allah in Arabic script.
University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin, however, told San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders the university “stands behind this process” of investigating the students for possible punishment.
“I don’t believe the complaint is about the desecration of the flag,” Griffin said. “I believe that the complaint is the desecration of Allah.”
By this point you are no doubt thinking about all the times the Congress has attempted to protect the symbol of the United States of America, our own flag, from burning and desecration. When is the last time anybody has been punished for that? Not in most of our lifetimes.
But don’t you dare insult Muslims — even Muslim terrorist groups — or there will be (gasp!) close to rioting in the Dean’s office! Are you sufficiently outraged yet? Islam in America — only discuss it in whispers?
The university has 10 days from the time of the hearing to decide whether to sanction the students.
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which represents the students, insisted the school has no basis for punishing them.
“The College Republicans engaged in unequivocally protected political expression, and it strains all credibility to think the SFSU administration does not know this,” he said. “There is nothing to try or investigate here other than protected expression.”
Ten days after the incident, a student filed a formal complaint with the university against the campus group, alleging “attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment” and “actions of incivility.”
FIRE argues the university’s Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development could have settled the matter informally or dismissed the charges instead of pressing forward today with a hearing.
The legal advocacy group sent a letter to SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan Jan. 23 arguing no American public institution can lawfully prosecute students for engaging in political protest or for desecrating religious symbols.
FIRE asserted “incitement” and creating a “hostile environment” are legal terms not applicable to the College Republicans’ actions of stepping on flags.
“SFSU has a duty to uphold the First Amendment rights of all of its students, even if their expressive activity offends the religious sensibilities of some,” the letter stated.
University officials wrote back Jan. 29, saying the school would continue to investigate the complaint “to give all parties the confidence that they will be heard and fairly treated by a panel that includes representatives of all the university’s key constituencies.”
A follow-up letter by FIRE urged Corrigan to call off the hearing, warning “if you continue to ignore your constitutional obligations, you risk personal liability for depriving your students of their rights.”
“This is not even a close call, legally speaking,” FIRE Vice President Robert L. Shibley contended. “The First Amendment protects using or destroying flags in political protest, and even SFSU administrators must realize that they cannot prosecute students for failing to respect a religious symbol.”
Outlaw Islam. They can riot on the boats as they leave shore, just don’t do it here. And take your terrorist flags with you.
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As a person who detests all radicals, this is a reverse situation of bringing a minor event before a Judge in a law suit, one can make sure that judge would rule to not view it. So, they think they can play a double standard is it? The panel who are supposed to view it, risks being seen as imbecilic, and not fit for their positions of trust and command.
With that in mind, one must ask, is this a probe to see how far the radicals can push the rights issue? It would set a major president if successful, where only radical minorities can have a voice.
Maybe it is finally time to revamp our education system at the top echelons, and if they don’t back off poster haste, it will sit before congress. Then this foolishness of the Floating corks in education will be finally let go, not a bad thing, as our Kids need real educations, not a political propaganda education anyway, as is the current pattern of all higher learning centers. Yes, this might just turn out to be a very good thing in the end for our Kids, plus get the radicals barred from all higher learning centers, as inciting violence against normal Americans.
It would also serve to rid ourselves of the imbeciles who have sat on their fat behinds and uttered propaganda they themselves cannot understand, hahahahah maybe the UAE will hire them, what say? Nah, they would only slit their throats sooner or later.
Burning American flags is fine for jihadists overseas and lefties domestically. But burn a terrorist flag in the US? We can’t have that-we have to love our enemies and understand their legitimate grievances. No wonder this country is in big trouble. If we took some people from the WW2 era and time warped them to the America of today they probably would have thought the US had lost WW2 because they wouldn’t recognize the nation from the one in their time.