Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Muslim at GW posters intended to be satire
Seven students at George Washington University — members of what they call Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness — have admitted that they are the ones who put anti-Muslim posters around campus this week. In a letter to the student newspaper, the GW Hatchet, the students said that they were trying to oppose “the true racist propaganda” of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” which David Horowitz, the conservative activist, and his supporters are holding on many college campuses later this month. The posters — which said “Hate Muslims? So do we!” — appeared Monday morning and were immediately removed. Numerous students groups as well as university leaders condemned the posters. The students who said that they put them up said in their letter that their “creative political action” was designed to be a “horrific exaggeration of the racism” behind the Horowitz-inspired events. University officials said Wednesday that they were still investigating the incident. The posters implied that they were sponsored by the campus chapter of Young America’s Foundation, which is sponsoring events similar to Horowitz’s program, but which disavowed the posters and condemned them. The national office of the foundation issued a statement condemning the students who admitted to putting up the posters and accusing “leftist administrators” at GW of using the incident to go on “a rampage” against student conservatives trying to criticize radical Islam.
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