Posted on 11/09/2013 11:06:09 AM PST by grundle
A controversy has broken out at Washington University in St. Louis over a Facebook photo apparently showing five students dressed up for Halloween as a Navy SEAL team capturing Osama bin Laden with garish neon water guns.
The photo was originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 30 with the title “Halloween ’13 Amurrica!!” reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The photo shows three dudes in camouflage attire surrounding a kid also in camo garb who is sporting a long, fake beard and turban. There’s also a guy in the background holding up an American flag.
Washington University student Mahroh Jahangiri later objected to the photo because she views mimicking the American military’s killing of Osama bin Laden as a hateful Muslim stereotype.
“As a Muslim-American who has been subjected to taunts of ‘dirty paki’ and ‘get the fuck out of WU and America’ on this campus, the reasons why this photo are offensive are painfully obvious and represent a broader, more aggressive (and apparently violent) Islamophobia rampant here at WashU and in the United States,” Jahangiri has explained on her Facebook page.
“This is disgusting and cannot be tolerated on this campus.”
School officials at Wash. U. have sided earnestly with Jahangiri.
No fewer than three high-ranking functionaries at the school including the chancellor, Mark S. Wrighton, signed a statement saying they are “disappointed and saddened” about the awesome Halloween stunt, notes the Post-Dispatch. The statement called the image “entirely inconsistent with who we are as an institution, our values and the way in which we engage in the world around us.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
During WWII, we put the Japanese in temporary internment camps because we were at war with the Japs. Maybe it’s time we did the same with the muslims in this country.
“the Black Guys and the Rebels had the best ethnic descriptors, very educational”
Very true. And it’s downright immoral to lecture a grunt on sensitivity towards the culture he’s being sent to fight.
“As a Muslim-American
I have no time for Muslim-Americans or Mexican- Americans or Italian-Americans or African -Americans or German-Americans or any other hyphenated American.
I am an AMERICAN. period.. If this young lady was an American, she would not be offended...........
SHE is the one who is stereotyping Muslims. Bin Laden was a sworn enemy of the US, who mercilessly attacked our nation and our citizens, and whose much needed death waa achieved at the cost of our nation's blood and treasure.
If she finds it offensive that Americans celebtrate Obama's death and honor those who brought it about, then it must be because she believes that Obama does represent all Muslims.
Otherwise, what exactly is her point?
I just looked at it
The antigunners don’t like the pic either because there are super soakers in it.
Anybody who doesn’t like it can go live in a middle east hell hole and get the hell out of here along with all other headchoppers.
the ugly heathen Muslim shows its true face as the scab that refuses to heal.
the media uses the term paki.
Tell he’s won a deep sea cruise........if you get my drift!
my guess is that she has family in the Uk or has lived there and is now using the name Paki[which is just an abbreviation and nothing wrong with it] as some kind of racist name to garner sympathy.
using the abbreviation of paki for Pakistani is not racist unless one is ultra PC.
She is a Paki liar who is using her religion or cult to garner sympathy and get attention.
As a muslim American, you should be applauding the Navy Seals for killing the terrorist who killed 3,000 of your “fellow Americans”. Unless, of course, you’re a muslim first, who happens to be living in America, but not American at heart.
Anyone in America who is offended by the killing of Bin Laden should be deported. They belong elsewhere.
University of St Louis, huh?...Let her spend the night in that locked up room where the Exorcist had been based. Let’s see how holy she really thinks she is.
OTOH, I still wouldn’t wish that on even my human enemies.
Now I’ve got to look it up. :)
I assume you'd still give visas to Jewish people coming from Israel or other countries in the Middle East? And how about Druze and other non-Muslim groups?
Otherwise, not a bad idea. A visa is a privilege, not a right.
Much as we dealt with the false religion of Shinto during World War II as unpatriotic and un-American, it wouldn't be a bad idea to require people from countries with a long history of anti-Americanism to swear a loyalty oath to the American Constitution and pass a test on its basic principles before being given a visa, and be deportable if they engage in anti-American activities. That wouldn't exclude all Muslims — some are nonobservant and others are fairly liberal — but it would make Islamic fundamentalism unwelcome.
If conservatives are going to be targeted for being bigoted or biased, let's use the “political correctness” shoe against the other side, too.
22 posted on 11/9/2013 1:21:50 PM by TigersEye: “I didn't click the link so I didn't see that load of horse apples before. This beotch is an ‘activist.’ I wonder what cell she's active with?”
41 posted on 11/9/2013 1:39:07 PM by TigersEye: “The NSA is watching her and DHS and FBI are on top of it. /s”
Unfortunately, her “cell” is the Department of Homeland Security where she is an intern. She's not being watched by the DHS; she's **IN** the DHS!
No, I am not kidding.
LinkedIn profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mahroh-jahangiri/43/911/109
Mahroh Jahangiri
Compliance Intern at Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security
Greater St. Louis Area
International Affairs
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The American University in Cairo, Children's Cancer Hospital of Egypt, Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security
Education
Washington University in St. Louis
It's already been noted at a number of other websites, including these:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/when-opposing-jihad-is-racist/
The enemy is in the WH ... and DHS ... and who knows how many agencies and positions.
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