{"id":3007,"date":"2007-10-11T07:31:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/10\/anti-muslim-at-gw-posters-intended-to-be-satire\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:31:29","slug":"anti-muslim-at-gw-posters-intended-to-be-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/10\/anti-muslim-at-gw-posters-intended-to-be-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim at GW posters intended to be satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Muslim at GW posters intended to be satire<\/a><\/p>\n

Seven students at George Washington University \u2014 members of what they call Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness \u2014 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 \u201cthe true racist propaganda\u201d of \u201cIslamo-Fascism Awareness Week,\u201d which David Horowitz, the conservative activist, and his supporters are holding on many college campuses later this month. The posters \u2014 which said \u201cHate Muslims? So do we!\u201d \u2014 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 \u201ccreative political action\u201d was designed to be a \u201chorrific exaggeration of the racism\u201d 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\u2019s Foundation, which is sponsoring events similar to Horowitz\u2019s 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 \u201cleftist administrators\u201d at GW of using the incident to go on \u201ca rampage\u201d against student conservatives trying to criticize radical Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Muslim at GW posters intended to be satire Seven students at George Washington University \u2014 members of what they call Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness \u2014 have admitted that they are the ones who put anti-Muslim posters around … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}