In the early 1930s, both before and just after the National Socialists came to power, National Socialist brownshirts would go to universities and disrupt the lectures of anti-Nazi professors, shouting them down and physically menacing them. These students are the new brownshirts, fascists who are determined to shout down and silence anyone and everyone who dares utter a critical word about jihad terror.
“Protesters disrupt ‘Sniper’ screening, arrested at Eastern Michigan,” by Chad Dees, Campus Reform, April 15, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
Eastern Michigan University planned to show two screenings of ‘American Sniper’ last Friday.
During the first showing, four protesters climbed onstage at the Student Center Auditorium. The four were briefly arrested.Four students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) were arrested Friday after disrupting and causing the cancellation of a screening of American Sniper.
The Echo, EMU’s student newspaper, reported that roughly 35 students walked onto the stage at the Student Center Auditorium in protest during the 8P.M. screening of the Academy Award-winning film. The group of students worked together to try to shut down the 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. screenings of the film about the deceased Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
“The reality is, this is about a process of not allowing cultural appropriation for the movies being allowed into the university.”
Protest leaders Ahmed Abbas, Layali Alsadah, Jenna Hamed, and Sabreen Dari were arrested after attempting to shut down the 8 P.M. screening. The protesters were successful in getting the 10 P.M. screening cancelled.
“Once the film started the protesters moved into the theater and disrupted the movie. Department of Public Safety officers were summoned and the protesters were given several warnings. Four protesters were arrested and released shortly thereafter without any charges being sought,” Geoff Larcom, EMU spokesperson, told Campus Reform.
Lacom said that after the students were escorted out, the first showing of the film resumed and finished without interruption. He also noted that the second showing of the movie was cancelled because of the late time and there is further discussion about showing the cancelled screening.
However, according to Student Body President Desmond Miller, the decision to cancel the second showing was a joint-decision he made with EMU President Susan Martin, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Calvin Phillips, and Campus Life coordinator of arts, entertainment and marketing Gregg Costanzo.
“The conversation we had wanted to make sure student safety was at the forefront. We wanted to make sure whatever happens, students would be safe. The second part of it, which is actually just as important as the first part, was making sure we have a very serious dialogue about the movie and the propaganda associated with this movie,” Miller told The Echo….
Jay Airahs says
PURITY
Muslims shout “Allah is greater” like a Heil Hitler praise
Their upturned hand displays are much like a Nazi stiff arm parade.
Islam’s Prayer rug thugs, like SA brown shirts try to impose untruth.
Exaggerated bows are as pretentious as the steps of a goose.
Yes, head scarfs flaunt a greater purity, Nazi swastikas did this too.
The hijab is merely a sex-slave fashion accessory.
Honor killing death squad,
Adolph would be so proud.
CAIR is Sharia’s Gestapo.
Lock-step bootlick lunatics: Ditto
tzi says
Arresting them was a good 1st step( 1st Amm. = they have a right to PEACEFULLY protest) but the disruptors accomplished their goal….They should have RE-STARTED the movie!!
The NAZI’s put the Jews to camps to “protect them”.
FIGHT BACK PEOPLE!
rev g says
Go reread your Bill of Rights. It is peaceable assembly, not peaceful. There is a difference. The very act of keeping people from going about their business, such as attending the movie, is a disruption of the peace.
tvi says
We agree.Peacefully protest & peaceably assemble is the same thing & they were NEITHER & should have been arrested(To be technical it says they have a right to “redress the GOVERNMENT”.This was not “the government” although it was a PUBLIC university,soooo could be considered the Govt’.) Either way,the bad guy’s WON because the movie was shut down. We have a local International University that is 70% Arabs.They have an International Festival every year.LAST year was the FIRST time the Israeli dancers were booed.Their “Final SOLUTION” was to MOVE the Israeli group.Our local Patriot group got involved & brought it to the Universities attention.The Pres. ordered extra security for the group & said anyone who disrupts will be disciplined.He attended the event & the group said it was the BEST year ever!!…FIGHT BACK!!
rev g says
Protest can be peaceful but not peaceable. It is a nuance lost on the masses. A sit-in in a city park may be peaceful, but is not peaceable in that it disrupts the ability of the community to use said park in typical fashion.
The left loves to redefine terms to fit their needs.
Shane says
It is accurate to call these scumbags “Islamofascists” as they use violence and the threat of violence to silence our freedom of speech. It would be okay to protest and hand out literature in front of the building where the movie is being shown, but these fascist tactics must NOT be tolerated. The students should be expelled, or at least suspended for 2 weeks.
mortimer says
Queen Margaret II just sounded the call to Western people: ‘Islam must be challenged.’
We cannot allow foreign, economic immigrants tell us we must surrender our freedom because they disagree with FREEDOM! Madness!!
Just say ‘no’ to Islamic misogyny and supremacism.
Nathan says
But what do ‘they’ want to replace it with? The most moronic $hit ever uttered by a ‘human’ being. I think we should pass on this ‘opportunity’.
Georg says
Well said, guys.
“In the early 1930s, both before and just after the National Socialists came to power, National Socialist brownshirts would go to universities and disrupt the lectures of anti-Nazi professors, shouting them down and physically menacing them. These students are the new brownshirts, fascists who are determined to shout down and silence anyone and everyone who dares utter a critical word about jihad terror.”
^ A perfect example of why JW is essential.
cs says
Lack of decorum,send them home, expel from the university.
mortimer says
Hmm. A movie about an American soldier. A movie about a patriot who puts his life on the line repeatedly to defend other American soldiers and defend his country. An American soldier who believes in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION and that it is WORTH DEFENDING.
Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is betraying all soldiers who fought and gave their lives for the freedom of seeing this film.
“American Sniper” is all about DEFENDING THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Davegreybeard says
‘“American Sniper” is all about DEFENDING THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.”
Yeah.
Well mort, the problem is, not enough people are outraged about this.
The very first thing the Jihadis are going to do is try and shut us up.
So far, looks like a draw, with the momentum on the Jihadi side.
Beverly says
As a 1954 graduate of EMU, wife of an EMU graduate and mother of an EMU graduate and a former Editor of what was then the Normal News…i am deeply disappointed that terrorists were allowed to disrupt an American movie about an American hero and patriot. It shames the University and its students body.
Those protesting do not belong in an American University supported by taxes….Expulsion is called for!
Alissa says
We need to make a point of celebrating this movie the way the French did with Charlie Hebdo. We should be having this printed on t-shirts and signs.
Gayle Armstrong RN says
Muslim students have a right to attend our Colleges and Universities and have the respect from other students. However, for the Muslim students to try and impose their beliefs or censorship is totally wrong. If these students wanted to protest the showing of the movie it might have been a better idea to protest the showing from outside the theater at the entrance with signs or their chants.
I respect all religions and persons who follow their beliefs. I would suggest that these Muslim Students practice the religion the same way. All people are to be treated with love and respect. All religions have the same belief and should be practiced with the same message.
Nathan says
They could have shown that great islamc film of peace called… erm… “Death to the unbeliever”… no that’s not it, What about all “infidels must die”…. no not that one …. try… “smite their necks wherever” oh no, not that one, I know “women my right hand possesses” that will go down a storm… on pain of death. No what about “I shagged a goat and sold it in the next village”, my favorite!
Name one… one islamic film saying, Erm anything really in the last 2,000 years…. good or bad?
There was Aladin, but wasn’t that made in the USA?
The only thing they can make is the biggest islamic turd that stinks out the whole world. Well done!
deja vu says
Gayle Armstrong RN
You make some astonishing claims.
1. I’m glad you respect all religions, but you are very much mistaken if you honestly believe Muslims can practice Islam in the same way as Judaism and Christianity. I suggest you read the teachings of the Qur’an – the first 9 Surahs will give you some idea. Love and respect for non-Muslims are very far from being part of its doctrine.
2. You claim that ‘All religions have the same belief and should be practiced with the same message.’ Sounds all very fine and dandy, but it is manifestly untrue. Unless you have thoroughly studied ‘all religions’ (which I doubt) you cannot possibly make such a claim. Leaving aside polytheistic beliefs, the God of the Bible’s teachings stem from His attributes, which are the polar *opposite* of the attributes of the god of Islam. So how can their doctrines be the same?
3. If you are referring to the Golden Rule as being universal – there is no such thing in Islam, as it is commonly defined. It is only for fellow Muslims. A clear example that Islam is not based on the Golden Rule is the verse (48:29): “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other.”
This topic was discussed on JW in 2009. For more information on this topic see:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/05/islam-and-the-golden-rule
Wellington says
“All religions have the same belief and should be practiced with the same message.”
You’re either horribly naive, Gayle, or an impostor. There is no third alternative.
Your turn.
Peggy says
I would love to see you preach that to the Muslims. Would you have the guts?
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in equality, love and respect too but since they don’t I have to with resentment and unacceptance.
Renee says
Let them protest the beheading videos produced by their kind of people
anonamustafa says
… making sure we have a very serious dialogue about the movie and the propaganda associated with this movie,” Miller told The Echo….
propaganda?…really?
If anything, not allowing the second showing is propaganda.
Sick,simpleton hypocrite….
Westman says
And, he also said, “We wanted to make sure whatever happens, students would be safe.”
Which students? From those we are too afraid to name? Typical leftist marble-mouthing.
voegelinian says
Yeah, I suspected “Gayle Armstrong RN” (what kind of idiot posts their real name and profession on an Internet forum, particularly a forum devoted to a dangerously volatile issue?) would never revisit and respond.
rev g says
Eastern Michigan University is a short drive from Dearborn. I am betting that plenty of the protestors were not actual students.
susan says
There are plenty of Muslims in Ypsilanti, Canton, and Ann Arbor. Don’t need to drive 30 miles to Dearborn.
Wellington says
Just more proof that if you have Muslims, you might as well have Nazis. Both Islam and Nazism are enemies of freedom. Both Islam and Nazism cannot tolerate any criticism. Both Islam and Nazism abhor equality under the law. Both Islam and Nazism characterize the proponents of liberty as haters. Both Islam and Nazism have a “master something” in mind—–with Islam it’s a master faith; with Nazism it’s a master race. Both Islam and Nazism single out certain groups of human beings for second-class status or death——with Islam it’s non-Muslims; with Nazism it’s certain ethnic groups (and herein lies the root of the evil in both of these warped creeds).
All Nazism is is an updated secular version of Islam (but for different purposes of course, though control-freak control of all mankind is tellingly the same goal). Fortunately for mankind, Nazism lasted only one generation, massively destructive though that period of time was. Unfortuately for mankind, Islam has lasted for some 56 generations.
Islam. Nazism. Two sides of the same bogus coin. By now one knows this or should know it.
Nathan says
Indeed.
The thing is EVERYBODY, and I mean everybody knows this, but the people we have in power, across the whole of the world are oblivious to it. I don;t mean they can’t see it. I mean THEY ARE GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY SO THEY DON;T SEE IT! And to some extraordinary lengths….
What’s all that about, I mean really? Are the muslim population suddenly going to get off the dole and start shitting gold bricks? I don’t think so.
Why are the looking the other way? Time and time again? It smacks me in the face time and time again from the police to the politicians. WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
What’s their plan?
Peggy says
World domination. The best way is to introduce Islam everywhere. Only the select few have power and the others are more than happy to be enslaved because they love their prophet so much.
You can’t enslave that many people through any other means including communism. Even communism has to end because people are forced to obey. Religion is the only way to enslave and the slaves to go along happily.
rev g says
Plenty of things are used to enslave.
deja vu says
You forgot one thing, Nathan – they both have the same diabolical source.
Sheri says
Next time the “paying audience” should lock the doors and beat the shit out of them.
Peggy says
Yes, it’s the best way. Police arrested them and then released them. The audience would only release them after they give them a good bashing. If this happened in a Muslim country the audience would kill them but look at us, so meek and mild and civilized. That civilized manner will destroy us because when the other side has no rules you can’t have any either.
Sheri says
Yup. It’s dog eat dog and the strongest dog will survive.
Jay Barney says
When the police grow timid the people will turn to patriotic, vigilante-Americans.
jay says
Were they just as spineless and coddling and supporting in the 30s to the Nazis?
Nathan says
Yep!
Maria says
American Sniper is about a American soilder who goes to fight in Iraq would muslims still be protesting if the America sniper was in Bosnia or Kosovo I bet not
Matthieu Baudin says
” These students are the new brownshirts…” and often they’re being cheered on and encouraged by their New Left, Bohemian parents who parted ways with common decency and democratic principles decades ago.
Peggy says
rev g says
April 15, 2015 at 9:53 pm
Plenty of things are used to enslave.
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Yes, but Islam is by far the best method. Muslims are more than happy to be dominated by their religion.
Ed says
They need to be arrested for disorderly conduct.
Alissa says
First you have to find enough cops with the guts to do it.
Sweetness says
“The reality is, this is about a process of not allowing cultural appropriation for the movies being allowed into the university.”
Who said this, and what, pray tell, does it mean? It sounds like gibberish. Was this quote in favor or not of the screenings? Sheesh, kids these days. And the “reporter” should be ashamed of such shoddy copy.
Laura says
Imagine if during WW2 there were Nazis in London shouting down critics of Hitler and Germany!
What I don’t understand is, why don’t the patriotic students confront the muslims who try to stifle all criticism of Islam?
Rob Crawford says
There were. There were so many competing fascist groups P.G. Wodehouse spoofed them by creating a group called the “brown shorts” in his Jeeves and Wooster stories.
You see, all the shirt colors had been taken, so they had to wear a distinctive color of shorts…
Brian Hoff says
It will be taken away they right to protect.
BC says
Islam is the religion of peace and if you do not support that idea I will kill you
tzione says
I know this comment is funny…but I’ve ACTUALLY SEEN comments like this…crazy!!
Eric says
This is a university, a place where young people try out different values and where all sorts of peaceful demonstrations take place in the USA. This protest was apparently not violent and unsuccessful in preventing the later scheduled screening of the movie. The university administration did not succumb to the demands of the protesters and resumed showing of the movie. This is a fact, whether the second showing iis rescheduled or not.
And like most protests, this provokes both those decrying the movie and those who applaud the heroic life this great patriot led.
The strength of our country is found in the freedoms we have memorialized within our Constitution, including the right to protest. It is difficult at times to remember that when faced with so much violence around the world, all brought to bear by Muslim jihadists. But, we in the USA, have freedoms like no other country and we must protect all of them, not just the ones that are comfortable or popular.
rev g says
The protest was successful. The planned showing did not occur. They got press time showing they could shut down the viewing, even if only temporarily.
This is likely to affect who does go to the rescheduled showing as well as future plans for similar events.
The protestors will be emboldened by any measure of success, and the university will likely be cowed in anticipation of more, possibly worse protests to come.
Dave J says
Absolutely appalling, those disrupters should be arrested. Another violent attack on Free Speech, at a University, and at least partially successful!
America must awake from it’s pacifism as far as these barbarians are concerned.
FredvanH says
I would have thought there would be American boys who wouldn’t put up with their shit and would have stomped their teeth down their throats.
Larry A. Singleton says
I would really, truly like to KILL somebody sometimes. Visited this web page Campus Reform. Couldn’t post a F-ing comment because the button was hidden behind the goddamed F-ing ADS.
Half the time it’s not even worth using this goddamned venue anymore. The stinking ad whores have ruined the whole F-ing Internet!!!!!!
This is a goddamned CONSTANT!!!!!
edwardg says
Islamic fascism should never be tolerated. These people can always go and live in an Islamic state.