Development: Leader attempting to prevent showing of American Sniper calls out Harbaugh,
as part of "violent rape culture infested football" and associated with "racist militarism".
Soon thereafter the same leader was revealed to have vandalized Omar Mahmood's off-campus apartment door, according to the former Michigan Daily columnist who was fired from the Daily for his satirical article Do the Left Thing that appeared in the Michigan Review.
What's that?
"campus is already a hostile place for Arab/Muslim students"
Apparently so, at least for Omar Mahmood as described by Jonathan Chait
Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a minority on campus. The students, who were recorded on a building surveillance camera wearing baggy hooded sweatshirts to hide their identity, littered Mahmood’s doorway with copies of his column, scrawled with messages like “You scum embarrass us,” “Shut the fuck up,” and “DO YOU EVEN GO HERE?! LEAVE!!” They posted a picture of a demon and splattered eggs.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html
Mahmood reported that he has known the identity of the vandals all along, but had hoped to reconcile, but said he couldn't hold back any longer in the wake of Khalil’s statements about campus hostility toward Muslims.
Zeinab Khalil, a recent UM graduate, Muslim, and progressive activist who won numerous distinctions during her time on campus, including an award named for Martin Luther King, Jr., thinks it’s the former. A UM group’s decision to screen the film American Sniper offended the sensibilities of some Muslims, including Khalil, who claimed on Twitter that the campus “is already a hostile place for Arab/Muslim students. In one tweet posted on April 9th, she despaired
“Spent 4 yrs at @umich doing anti-oppressive work; admins used me to educate campus. this is what i get in return as exhausted/exploited alum.”
In a sense, she’s right. UM has indeed proven to be a hostile place for at least one Muslim student: Omar Mahmood, whose off-campus apartment was vandalized last December by a trio of women who pelted his door with eggs and left him hateful messages because they didn’t appreciate a satirical column he'd written mocking trigger warnings and microaggressions.
Who perpetrated this act of intimidation against a Muslim student? It was Khalil herself, according to Mahmood, whose account is supported by the testimony of other students, video footage, and emails obtained by Reason.
Khalil was assisted by two others, according to Mahmood, who are also recent graduates and progressive activists in the UM Muslim community.
Mahmood has known this all along—the amateur criminals were caught in the act on the apartment complex’s surveillance video and are identifiable to those who know them—but he says he didn’t report their names to the media in hopes that they would reconcile with him privately. They never did.
In the wake of the controversy over American Sniper and Khalil’s statements about campus hostility toward Muslims, Mahmood says he couldn’t hold back any longer.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/10/at-umich-a-libertarian-muslim-student…
MOD EDIT - I know people won't like locking this, but there are a fair number of people who are not handling themselves well and I really don't want to send anyone to Bolivia today. I am in too good a mood for that. -LSA
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i don't think you understand how a "no politics" rule works.
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So far the posts saying "this is gonna get pulled" or "this won't end well" outnumber the actual number of responses that are even remotely offensive by about 2-1.
No politics is generally good, but I think you ought to have more faith in the commentariat here by now. Plus, this is "local news" for Ann Arbor as much as politics.
Time to let this issue go. Harbaugh said what he said and he's not going to take it back.
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I think people come here to speak freely because they can't speak freely where they come from. Or at least it really seems that way sometimes.
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This is going to be good. I'll give this claim one more hour before it's locked.
It's a she. And the fact that she vandalized the property of another person for expressing his right to free speech means that she should be stripped of that freedom.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw hot dogs.
You can remark on the wisdom of Khalil's tactics, and the hypocrisy, but to invalidate sociological reality is both political and inhumane.
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I think my major issue with this is that people go to university to learn to become the person they are, they find their own views. If we start banning things because people are discomforted by them, it's a slippery slope to only having one accepted viewpoint. I haven't seen the movie, but I highly doubt it's "The Birth of a Nation: Part Two". I think if you don't like something, by all means speak out against it and say why you find it wrong. I draw the line when it comes to surpressing what you dislike. As far as the safety issue goes, I find it to be overblown. Racist assholes are going to be racist assholes, this movie is not going to change that for better or worse. Especially on a progressive campus like U of M.
Though I agree with you, you have had this political bone to pick with the same type of posts two threads in a row, which is quite realving of your own political views.
2011 Western Michigan game at the Big House, my older sister took me to my first game. She wears the head scarf and some punk something along "look at these muslims". Obviously that's one person out 100,000+, but it didn't feel nice. Just because the girl said and did something really dumb, it does not automically discount what she stood for. Obviously, she isn't doing Arabs any favours.
Harbaugh tweeting about this should prove both to himself and us why we don't talk politics on MGoBlog.
So is say, Birth of a Nation. Which is suuuuuper racist and harmful for a whole variety of history of the Lost Cause movement reasons. Though it is a revolutionary film and a useful thing to use to talk about the Lost Cause movement, which is why it's still used academically.. It just being a movie is not a good dismissal.
That said, I haven't seen American Sniper so won't make direct compasions. Though this sounds like the kind of liberal activism that is super annoying to me, a pretty lefty type.
Was this supposed to undermine his point?
So, did anyone find me a coupon code for some Sauce Castillo to help with my gift card dilemma?
Wrong thread?
I don't mind people posting topics like this, even though they border on the "political" (doesn't everything?), but can we not give this pathetic person the attention she so desperately seeks? If it weren't for Twitter, she wouldn't even be on our radar, because she appears to have amounted to exactly nothing but a small time petty criminal.
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That will solve everything. Yup, EVERYTHING. Smh
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Those who preach peace and tolerance rarely are themselves.
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If only young people could put this kind of passion and anger into real activism instead of wasting time protesting the movies choices at UMix Late Night.