Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week: Fake Flyer Draws Fire
Note the name Adam Kokesh below
From the Hatchet:
A group of seven GW students sent an e-mail to The Hatchet late Tuesday night admitting to hanging hundreds of controversial posters around campus early Monday morning.
The students - Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon, senior Brian Tierney, freshman Ned Goodwin, Maxine Nwigwe, Lara Masri and Amal Rammah - said their motives were misinterpreted. Students for Conservativo-Facism Awareness hung the posters in opposition to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, an event being held beginning Oct. 22.
Kokesh, a graduate student and Iraq War veteran, gained celebrity over the past year because of his vocal opposition to the war. Nwigwe and Rammah are also graduate students.
“It is to our great dismay that the student body and the media missed the clear, if subtle, message of our flier: the hyperbolic nature of the flier was aimed at exposing Islamophobic racism,” the e-mail said.
Posters hung around campus read, “Hate Muslims? So do we!!!”
Tracy Schario, a University spokesperson, said that the University Police Department is still investigating the incident.
“At a minimum, these flyers violated the posting policy and did not properly use the University logo and they posted flyers without permission,” Schario said. “That’s, at a minimum, the offense.”
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is being held at GW and sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative student group. It will feature several speakers - including controversial conservative author David Horowitz - slated to discuss radical Islam.
One-hundred and forty two colleges nationwide will host the event, according to its Web site. Horowitz is organizing the week.
“While the poster, even if taken seriously was not intended to cause any real harm, the systematic and glorified type of racism represented by this event is being imposed upon us from dangerous divisive outside forces” the e-mail said.
In the letter, members of the organization said their intent was to shed light on the week - which they called racist.
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Conservativo-Facism Awareness? WTF is that? Oh I get it. It is because they (these students) are themselves filled with a hatred they have projected onto conservatives. Neat little neo-stalinist trick huh?
The purpose for Islamo-Facism week is “…to condemn the outrages committed by the Islamo-Fascists against women, gays, Christians, Jews and moderate Muslims, and to support those Muslims who are always the first victims of the radical jihad.”
Seems like a good plan to me.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:09 am“In the letter, members of the organization said their intent was to shed light on the week - which they called racist.”
What if it was “Neo-Nazi Awareness Week”? Would that be “racist” against all whites? These people make absolutely no sense. Anything and everything is called racism these days. Maybe they should be teaching these kids what racism IS and how to identify it properly, since obviously they haven’t a clue. Or just simply show them slides of known Terrorists and see if they can guess the Religion/Nationality of each.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:08 amHate Christians? You know we do.
““While the poster, even if taken seriously was not intended to cause any real harm, the systematic and glorified type of racism represented by this event is being imposed upon us from dangerous divisive outside forces” the e-mail said.”
Uh, children, when the fuck are you going to grow up? Try pulling your kind of BS in the corporate world and you will be out on your ass. College students piss me off. You are there to learn, that is your job. Clearly they are spotlight grabbers. They suck.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:31 amTo the college students responsible for the flier:
Drop out of college immediately, get jobs, and reimburse (in FULL) your parents, student loan companies, government grants, and scholarships, (and high school graduation gifts) that wasted precious college funds on YOUR miserable useless asses …
When finished, go down to your beloved Planned Parenthood and demand various extreme and permanent birth control methods to guarantee your seed never reproduces.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:03 pmI think you should allow those responsible to comment, and let the adults make mincemeat of them.
Or not. Trolls are everywhere.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:47 pm