• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Southern Methodist University bans 9/11 memorial because of new “triggering” policy

Aug 9, 2017 8:17 am By Robert Spencer

Universities today are radioactive wastelands of Leftist indoctrination, including a pronounced hostility to America and sympathy for jihad terrorism.

“9/11 memorial banned from campus venue because of new ‘triggering’ policy,” by Kayla Schierbecker, The College Fix, August 2, 2017:

A private Texas university has united student opinion across the ideological spectrum in opposition to a “restrictive and destructive” policy that bans a September 11 memorial display.

Southern Methodist University rebuffed its Young Americans for Freedom chapter’s request to host a display in a prominent campus location, violating the spirit of free speech, student groups told The College Fix.

The administration claims it is trying to accommodate the speech without disrupting existing college operations. But one allied group believes the new rules on “lawn displays” — motivated by an SMU commitment to avoid “triggering” students — are intended to stop pro-life messages that have proven more controversial….

Last month Grant Wolf, president of the YAF chapter, requested the use of the Dallas Hall Lawn…for a display involving nearly 3,000 American flags to memorialize those killed in the terrorist attacks. YAF’s display has been held on the lawn annually since 2015.

In emails dated July 24 obtained by The Fix, the university rejected the group’s proposed location for the Sept. 10 event but modified it to take place less than a quarter-mile away.

“The University has a new policy regarding Memorial Lawn Displays (see below) so I have changed the location of your request to MoMac Park,” Student Activities Coordinator Lydia Dale wrote in an email.

The new restrictions are intended to strike a balance between “the right of all members of the SMU community to express their opinions” and their right to “avoid messages that are triggering, harmful, or harassing,” according to the lawn display guidelines reprinted in the email….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: academia, Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance Tagged With: Grant Wolf, Southern Methodist University, Young Americans for Freedom


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 8:22 am

    Free speech is free speech, including messages that are “triggering”.

  2. Infidel Lass says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 8:27 am

    How does honoring the memory of the innocent fallen to terrorism amount to a triggering message?

    • Mark Swan says

      Aug 9, 2017 at 8:35 am

      “The new restrictions are intended to strike a balance between “the right of all members of the SMU community to express their opinions” and their right to “avoid messages that are triggering, harmful, or harassing,”

      So some SMU community memebers have complained—but the only one who would get this reply,
      would be MUSLIMS.

  3. J-pal says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Idiocy when it is as its ‘best’! Yes is not ‘yes’ and no is no longer ‘no’ – not even in the so called ‘church’. How come that ‘the defender of truth’ (I though it was the ‘chruch’) has become so insolent that it no longer can admit that a crime is a crime? This is no longer to be called ‘islamophobia’ (which is more prevalent among muslims, actually, than among other people) but what it is: delusion.

  4. Westman says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 8:53 am

    Pro-life is controversial on a private Christian campus? Why don’t they simply remove “Methodist” from the university name and capitulate to Barack Obama’s, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation..” Perhaps that could become the school’s slogan – “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian university”

    Sedition runs deep on secular college campuses and has become the new normal. As an patriotic Agnostic, watching Christians lose their identity is rather distressing when I realize that they are moving toward the left; an entity steeped in hedonism, unwilling to appreciate or defend their own nation.

    What kind of American university administrators does this university have? Are they mind-cousins of Obama’s “g– d—- America” Rev Wright?

    Like all large “private” universities, Southern Methodist University is getting sizable federal funding that should be withdrawn if it thinks honoring 9/11 victims means, “take it down the street, don’t bother us”

    • Betty says

      Aug 10, 2017 at 6:35 am

      Maybe they need their federal funds cut out because the want stand and honor our fallen.

  5. Keys says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 9:14 am

    The Islamic Seminary of America “collaborates” with SMU.

    https://www.islamicseminary.org/smu/

    Could this have anything to do with money ? /sarc off

    Cancer metastasizes. Islam can not, and will not, strengthen the USA.

  6. jack grandville says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 10:00 am

    And another cow flew by.

  7. mortimer says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 10:08 am

    KAFIRS ARE SLAVES WHO MAY NOT SPEAK THEIR MINDS

    The inability of Islam to allow freedom of speech is based on its predominant themes of dualism and submission. Islam is a political system of ENSLAVEMENT. There is a slave; there is a slave-owner. The slave has no rights. For a free person, the CENTRAL RIGHT that guarantees the other rights is freedom of speech. Euripides wrote: “A Slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” This is insightful. Free speech is the first right Mohammed TOOK AWAY from his opposition: the right to criticize him. He particularly wanted his followers to avoid contact with outsiders, so they might not hear any criticism of his cult. ISOLATION is a mind-bending, thought-control technique practiced in all narcissistic religious CULTS. There are 14 verses in the Koran that tell Muslims not to befriend the kafirs and practice APARTHEID from them. CENSORING CRITICISM OF ISLAM IMPOSES ISLAMIC APARTHEID AND ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM.

    In a liberal society, censoring any criticism of Islam would mean giving Islam SPECIAL RIGHTS not afforde to other faiths. Islamists want the right FOR MUSLIMS to criticize others faiths (and other sects of Islam), AND the unique right of Islam to be ABOVE CRITICISM. Islam’s primary need is to remove freedom of expression from the kufaar in order to gain a monopoly of information about Islam. Kufaar are semi-slaves and only Moslems have rights in an Islamic society. In practice, only the Islamic authoritarian state has the right to express an opinion about anything.

    There are 4,200 different religions. Since modern society believes in EQUALITY, ALL RELIGIONS must be protected from criticism or NO RELIGION may be protected from criticism. All or nothing.

  8. Dwayne Austin says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 11:10 am

    Hillary Clinton professes to be Methodist. Probably explains her corrupt, lunatic, leftist, progressive lifestyle!

  9. Guest says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    How is respecting the memory of the dead harmful and harrasing?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 9, 2017 at 3:40 pm

      It is only “harmful and harassing” to those who who believed they deserved to die–in other words, to those who support violent Jihad.

  10. somehistory says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    SMU was at one time, what some might call “picky”, admonishing new students they expected respect be shown for God’s Word….after all, Methodists founded the university.

    Now, they pick on non moslums and take away free speech on cam pus.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    Southern Methodist University bans 9/11 memorial because of new “triggering” policy
    ……………….

    Who would this “trigger” save supporters of Jihad mass murder? Ugly and insane.

  12. Georg says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 5:21 pm

    What about American students who feel “triggered” by a wing of students who hate them, their country, and those who died on 9/11? About the only racism and hatred I witnessed in college was toward white people, Jews, and the United States.

  13. Paul says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    Universities : places where you come out much more ignorant than
    when you entered them. Just like mosques, really. Just obscene,
    ugly mindedness is now a virtue to these ‘intellectuals’, God help us.

  14. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 2:31 am

    “… Universities today are radioactive wastelands of Leftist indoctrination, including a pronounced hostility to America and sympathy for jihad terrorism…”

    They work on the premise that the origin of all the worlds evils can be traced back to our Universal Civilisation. Apart from their apologetics for Islamic violence, you can be almost certain that if hostilities commenced with North Korea the University Brown Shirts will immediately be on the streets heaping venom on the United States. The blinkered beliefs of the current generation of academics, with their herd mentality regarding social and political issues, has transformed them into parasitic appendages of society.

  15. PKG says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 3:20 am

    Oh for goodness sake! Hello? Hate to break it to the students of today, but history includes violence – and quite a bit of it!!

    Treating students like snowflakes is only reinforcing the prissy ‘trigger sensitive’ behaviour among them.

    What’s happened to academic leadership?

    Attempts to shield them from ugly realities such as banning the 9/11 memorial or relegating it to the margins is tantamount to an attempting a form of revisionism or akin to a denial of the holocaust….

    We need to respect and remember the victims of this terrible even!

    • Matthieu Baudin says

      Aug 10, 2017 at 5:01 am

      Your absolutely right PKG. Even non-Americans like myself should remember 9/11 and rake over it, not only to remember the individuals in that civilian mass murder, but also to try to understand what motivated the attack. Acknowledging it as an Islamic crime shouldn’t stand in the way of treating individual Muslim raised people with the dignity that they deserve as fellow human beings. Ignoring or airbrushing 9/11 out of history only serves to make us all look stupid and feeble and to invite more murderous efforts to humiliate us.

  16. PKG says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 3:21 am

    typo *event* is what I meant..

  17. Charles_Martel says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 8:48 am

    Another case study in “The Unbearable Mindlessness of Dhimmitude”.

  18. Carlos Danger says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    Trigger THIS!

  19. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 10, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    This whole “TRIGGERING” nonsense is victim-blaming slander and victimology – it pretends people are really only ever helpless victims of their animal instincts and emotions who CAN be “triggered” into violence by other people’s words – our leftopathic institutes of higher learning no longer teach that old truth about “STICKS AND STONES!” but in stead encourage criminal extortion!

  20. John A. Marre says

    Aug 11, 2017 at 8:05 am

    The real reason is their insistence on complete submission to Islam, the ideology responsible for the terror attacks on 9/11.

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • revereridesagain on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • James Lincoln on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • Carol on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
  • James Lincoln on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe
  • Jayme on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.