UPDATE: Ripon College claims that it didn’t ban the posters.
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“’Some things [on the poster] don’t have anything to do with 9/11—ISIS, for example,’ asserted one administrator. ‘I’m not sure I think the Iran hostage issue was Islamic terrorism,’ said another.”
These administrators, of course, have no knowledge of Islam or its doctrine of jihad. If they did, they would understand the connection between ISIS and 9/11, and would realize that the Iran hostage crisis was very much Islamic terrorism. If they knew the facts that are in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, they would never have disallowed this poster.
“Trying to reiterate their objections, administrators pointed out that, ‘It seems like the only terrorist activities brought up in this poster are those done by extremist Islamic groups, and so if I’m Muslim on this campus, like, ok, it sends the message that all terrorism happens by Muslims.’”
Why? Where does the poster say that? Does anything depicted on it say that “all terrorism happens by Muslims”? This objection echoes the common canard that Islamic supremacist groups such as Hamas-linked CAIR propagate, that any honest analysis of how jihad terrorists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims somehow tars all Muslims as terrorists. This isn’t so and there is no reason why it would be so, but apparently it is effective, as these groups keep repeating it.
“Ripon College ‘Bias Protocol Board’ Rules Against YAF’s 9/11: Never Forget Posters,” by Spencer Brown, YAF, August 29, 2018:
Citing bias reports filed during last year’s 9/11: Never Forget Project, administrators at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, ruled that YAF’s 9/11: Never Forget Project posters are creating an “environment” where “students from a Muslim background would feel singled out and/or harassed.” As a result, Ripon administrators will not allow the Ripon Young Americans for Freedom to hang the flyers as part of their work to remember the victims of September 11 or other victims of radical Islamist terrorism.
When leaders from Ripon YAF pressed administrators in a meeting to explain what was objectionable about the posters which merely depict history, the school’s “Bias Protocol Board” failed to provide anything more than the usual bizarre leftist excuses that rely on feelings, rather than facts, to back up their censorship.
According to administrators, the objections were “raised to the administration and the bias incident team about the environment that that [the poster] creates… That because of the focus, in this case relentlessly on one religious organization, one religious group, one religious identity—in associating that one religious identity with terrorist attacks which go back far before 9/11 and after 9/11— creates for some students here an environment which they feel like they are not able to learn.”
Administrators reminded the students that Ripon college is a private institution and therefore Ripon can decide what it feels is appropriate for display on campus and what is not. According to the administrators, they are allowed to rule on bias complaints using a “cost-benefit analysis” where they seek to understand “to what extent does something advance” or “hinder… the educational mission of the institution.” YAF would remind Ripon administrators that being a private institution does not render it immune from criticism of its decisions, especially when they attempt to censor key moments in our nation’s history that would be forgotten if not for bold Young Americans for Freedom activists such as those in Ripon YAF.
“There is nothing that this poster, in particular, adds to the conversation about 9/11, or about the politics of terrorism, or about national security or responses to it that couldn’t be done easily and more constructively without it,” claimed the members of the Bias Protocol Board.
“Some things [on the poster] don’t have anything to do with 9/11—ISIS, for example,” asserted one administrator. “I’m not sure I think the Iran hostage issue was Islamic terrorism,” said another.
Students of history will recall that the Iran hostage crisis was “America’s first searing experience with Islamist terrorism,” and that ISIS rose out of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and al-Qaeda carried out the deadly attacks of 9/11, as well as other attacks highlighted on the poster.
“I wouldn’t see the Pulse [nightclub] shooting as related to New York. If I were LGBT, oh yeah, that’s what that picture’s for. I do know that the shooter mentioned some comments and pledged some allegiance, but that’s not at all what the media portrayed it as.” Whether the media portrayed the truth or not (the media largely did report the shooter’s commitment to radical Islamist terror), the Pulse nightclub attacker did say “I did it for ISIS. I did it for the Islamic State.” What’s more, to claim that the deadliest terror attack in the United States since 9/11—murdering 49 innocent people—is only meaningful to the LGBT community is inexplicable.
Administrators further—and falsely—claim that one of their objections is because radical Islamist terrorism “represents a small percentage of the terrorist attacks that happened to this country, and they don’t represent the full gamut, and they show a very small picture of a specific religion or nationality instead of the larger viewpoint.” From 1992 to 2017, Islamists were responsible for 92% of deaths caused by terrorism in the United States, and are “far and away, the deadliest group of terrorists by ideology.”
Trying to reiterate their objections, administrators pointed out that, “It seems like the only terrorist activities brought up in this poster are those done by extremist Islamic groups, and so if I’m Muslim on this campus, like, ok, it sends the message that all terrorism happens by Muslims.”
Just as remembrances of horrific events carried out in the name of Nazism or Communism include honoring other victims of those ideological treacheries, so does the remembrance of the attacks carried out by radical Islamists on September 11, 2001.
“The intent is admirable to talk about why are we killing each other,” said an administrator. “That’s very admirable, and I support that, but what about school shootings? We’ve had almost a school shooting a day for the last ten days, and we’re continuing to up the body count.” The administrator then suggested discussing Buddhist terrorism in Myanmar before threatening the students that, “If you put this poster out there… you’re going to get the same negative results. It’s these images.”
Wellington says
Political correctness (which, btw, only exists in the West) is literally killing the very civilization, i.e., Western Civilization, which pioneered more rights and freedoms than any other civilization in history.
Upside-down world we live in at present. No doubt about it.
J D S says
Leftist socialist professors/Administrators are ruining our young students of today…Time for THE PEOPLE who pay these Professors/Administrators to start cleaning house..either that or live with a college group (students and faculty) that are hell bent on destroying America..This has also trickled down to our lower school systems also….WHY????simply because we have not been involved enough..not only in the school systems but with our government also and both have ran rampant and undone a system that taught values as well as an education.
J D S says
Remember 9/11!
gravenimage says
Hear, Hear!
Here is my painting “Always Remember — Never Submit”:
http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/gravenimageartist/media/bWVkaWFJZDo0MjMzNTI2Nw==/?ref=1
Click on the image to see the whole picture.
Ganesh says
It exists in India too and the culprits are the same leftist-islamist alliance.
gravenimage says
Ripon College bans 9/11 Never Forget posters for fear of offending Muslims
“’Some things [on the poster] don’t have anything to do with 9/11—ISIS, for example,’ asserted one administrator. ‘I’m not sure I think the Iran hostage issue was Islamic terrorism,’ said another.”
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So these Muslims are openly admitting that they support 9/11, holding diplomats as hostages, or ISIS beheading their victims?
Utterly horrifying. These college administrators should not bow to this Muslim savagery.
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, I’d say it’s a good poster if your intent is never to forget Islamic terrorism. However, it you are wanting your poster to be a reminder of the events of 9/11/2001, I think it misses the mark. Only two of the eight pictures pertain to that particular day. The poster could have had a picture of one of the planes bursting into flame as it struck one of the towers, and another picture of one of towers collapsing and also one of the Pentagon after being struck and another one of the crash site in Shanksville, PA, the people fleeing in terror from the collapsing towers, the construction workers raising the flag at ground zero, etc. This poster is more for remembering Islamic terrorism in general when the focus was supposed to be on just 9/11. It’s like writing an essay on the entire Civil War when your assignment was to write just about the battle at Gettysburg.
gravenimage says
The problem with Jihad is more than just 9/11, CogitoErgoSum, as horrifying as that was. I don’t have a problem with this poster.
gravenimage says
And I doubt the Muslims would have been OK with it if it had just commemorated 9/11, either.
James Lincoln says
Instead of being offended, Muslims need to examine their Islamic faith objectively and identify its problems.
If they don’t feel somewhat uncomfortable after this exercise, that is the bigger problem.
David says
How about an open discussion at the college about the problem with Islam? Let us see Muslims defend the 109 verses of hate. You can have a manual of hate, but you don’t have to carry out the instructions, except that the Koran commands that you do have to carry it out.
Take a look at this: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
James Lincoln says
Great if it could ever happen…
Also, thanks for the link, David!
jihad3tracker says
***** EVERY JW FREEDOM FIGHTER *****
Please take 10 minutes from our (American Labor Day) extra time off that some of us have. Find Ripon College administrator emails and send those cowards POLITE but relentlessly factual reality about Islam’s essential goal of conquest of Christians, Jews, all other “infidels”. Give citations from the Quran + Hadith. Specify links to Europe’s migrant crime & murders. Remind of Jihad slaughter on 9/11 * San Bernardino * Boston Marathon * Pulse Nightclub * Fort Hood * Attacks every week in European countries * Boko Haram kidnapping & rape.
And you can provide many other instances — of Islamic sick pathology.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Jihad3tracker.
Here’s contact information for Ripon College:
http://www.ripon.edu/contact-us/
jihad3tracker says
Thanks muchly, GI, for that essential shortcut link. I also suggest as superb wake-ups about Islam its ultimate purpose these videos by David Wood: “Three Questions For Moderate Muslims” / “What Is Taqiyya?” / “The Jihad Triangle” / “Three Stages Of Jihad”. And because we will be writing to “scholars” + “academics” who base their credentials on deep research of relevant established sources, challenge them to refute David’s references to Qur’an & Hadith &Sira. Finally — end your email with “I expect the courtesy of a reply.”
gravenimage says
Good post. Agreed.
David says
You begin to wonder what it’s going to take to make people wake up to the reality of the continuing Islamic invasion. Muslims claim they are in a defensive war. If that is the case, who invaded Europe and was eventually repelled by the Crusades?
StellaSaidSo says
For Muslims, every war is a ‘defensive’ war, because they consider NOT believing in ‘Allah’ to be an act of aggression. Our disbelief is, in every sense, offensive.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Stella.
Lydia Church says
Wow! No honor, respect, or sympathy for the VICTIMS of muslim terrorism, only for the terrorists!
Who cares how much the families of the victims are offended, according to them, right???
Lydia Church says
Plus, the message is against those who are GUILTY of terrorism, and they deserve to have their faces rubbed into the dirt and guilt of what they have done! If it *is* the muslims, then that goes for them! But that is like an automatic admission of guilt right there!!!
The stupidity never ends….
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling. That the administration banned this poster is just sickening.
Terry Gain says
Muslims refusing to accept responsibility for the appalling doctrine that produced 9/11 is extremely offensive., as is the cowardice of Ripon College.
TKF says
Parents, pull your kids lout of Ripon college immediately!
Guy Forester says
All Ripon alumni stop donating! If there are any athletic events, do not buy tickets.
Jaladhi says
Yup. Alumni need to stop giving any money these colleges which are more worried about offending Muslims than show the truth. These are the real traitors among us!!
David M says
Question for authorities & governments in the US: either 19 Muslims attacked on 9/11 & killed thousands, or they didn’t. So which is it, you can’t have it both ways.
Chunk says
So let’s start a parallel campaign about Nazis and the Holocost and see if there are any concerns about German students. Hypocrites!
Ann Marie says
Let’s see if I have this straight: Ripon College doesn’t want to offend people of the murderous culture who killed 3000 people on 9/11? Why are people babying the muslim culture? The entire culture is based on lying, murder, rape, destruction, changing history: need i go on?
No truth about current events, sweeping facts under the rug; the depths of mediocrity our ‘higher education’ has sunk to…
Insanity…
No Muzzies Here says
And so it goes. Soon the Muslim terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, will be presented in the history books as follows:
“Several airplanes were being piloted by young men of Arab background on the morning of September 11, when suddenly two tall buildings appeared in front of them, causing the planes to crash into the buildings. Authorities have not been able to determine who placed the buildings in front of those planes, and the crash investigation is considered closed.”
I’ll never forget the people who threw themselves out of windows to a certain death, rather than die in a fire. The mass murder was caused by Muslims carrying out the ideology of Islam.
Jedothek says
One aspect of this story is the increasingly common tendency to condemn those( in this case , YAF) who report or draw attention to evil rather than those ( in this case, the terrorists) who perpetrate the evil .
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Jedothek.
SK says
ISIL isn’t unrelated to 9/11.
They were a franchise of the group that committed 9/11 for a long time.
TWG says
Oh yawn…..
…………. and the parents will continue to allow the indoctrination of their children by these islammunists. I’ll bet not a single one of them will protect their children from exposure to such DANGEROUS idiology as islammunism in the schools.
This is why I stopped caring. When parents don’t even care enough to ensure their children aren’t embracing their own demise, it isn’t difficult to see where we’re all headed.
And hey, while I’m ranting……. How about that the universities are now distributing the abortion pill on campus? Yep….. They’re murdering the babies, and later they’ll snivel like merkel and the eu goons about how we NEED to bring in more jihadis, because we’re not breeding a workforce any more and our Nation is aging. We’ll need the jihadis to pay for all those union pensions and *free* medical care. We’ll need the jihadis to tend to the sick and elderly American infidels. We’ll need the jihadis to perform the work that young Americans are too doped-up, stupid and entitled to do, and the work that elderly Americans can’t do because the *free* health care system is killing them. They create the problem, so they can attain their ultimate goal in our total destruction. Watching this national suicide is killing me. I can’t care about it any more. I only pray the war begins during my life time. Because if we don’t fight them, there will be nobody left who is willing or capable of fighting them off.
Walter Sieruk says
First, the fear that some Muslims might be offended by “Remember 9/11 ” posters is absurd , given the fact that right after those murderous terror attacks of September 11,2001, many Muslims as well as non-Muslims who were acting as apologists for Islam were ,many times declaring to the American public that “Those 9/11 terrorists hijackers and mass murderers weren’t real Muslims, just were just criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam. for ‘politics.’ ” Wow ! What an outlandish claim to make . For no known criminal would even become so very interested in “politics” that he would give his live for It. Furthermore, if the claim the Muslim and the other apologists made in sincere and true, that those 9/11 terrorists weren’t real Muslims, then no Muslim should or should be offended by a “Remember September 11. 2001″‘ poster.
Second,don’t let them fool you, the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for Politics.” Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the “holy book” of Islam the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” Let’s face it, using jet planes a missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then sword can. Wake up West to the actual nature of Islam before it’s too late.
Walter Sieruk says
That the college officials fear that Muslims might be “offended ” by “Remember September 11 2001 ” posters is not only silly but this also leads to the Question of “What is the definition of the word .””Offended” For many Americans as well as other decent people might find it offended that many Muslims in the different nations around the world were very happy when they discovered about the 9/11 terrors attacks in America and those Muslims engaged in much celebration after hearing about all the people how died that specific day in America as a result of the jihad terror attacks. That is truly offensive .
Moreover, years after the 9/11 jihad terror attack some Muslims had made up “jokes” and enjoyed the telling of the “jokes.” That is something to be really offended about . As in the following example.
On the day of September 9 2016 some man I know who works as a security guard at a public place told me a Muslim actually had the nerve to walk over to him and said to him two Muslim “Jokes” about 9/11. As if it was a funny subject. It’s wrong to even try to “joke” about 9/11. Talk about bad “jokes” those two are the very much worst of all. The first was “What is the difference between September 11, 20001 and a cow?” answer “You don’t keep milking a cow after fifteen years.” Not only is that “joke” awful but those Muslims trying to be funny by say that cruel thing do have some gall because they have no room to talk . For they are still are “milking” the topic of the crusades and the crusades have been over for well more than seven hundred years. What gall they have! The second “Muslim “joke” about 9/11 is “On September 11, 2001 the people trapped on the upper floors of the WTC had ordered their pizza sent to them plane.” To say that such “humor” is terrible is an understatement. Furthermore, those Muslim who say those “jokes” are really only exposing their own sick, vicious, callous and heartless Islamic mindset.”
Walter Sieruk says
On the subject of Muslims becoming “offended.” by “Remember September 11, 2001” posters. The answer to that is “So what, tough beans . For Muslims do easily became “offended” by just about anything . For example, some Islamic nations male Muslims have been known very offended and angry just because they meet another man is not a Muslim. So , in other words, for those Muslims have a non-Muslin standing next to him is enough to give an offence.
Another example of this is that many of the Muslim /Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” are very offended that President Trump has recognized Jerusalem as the capital city of the State of Israel. Many of those same “Palestinians” were very happy when they found out about the mass jihad murders in America on September 11, 2001. So who cares if Muslims might become offended by some “Remember September 11, 2001” posters..
DirkaDirka says
During World War II, after the internment of the Japanese on the West Coast, Japanese Americans volunteered for military service and were formed into a single unit. That unit went on to win more awards for gallantry than any other unit, all because they wanted to prove their loyalty to their nation, America.
Guy Forester says
DD:
If my memory serves well, I recall reading that the interned Americans (both natural born and naturalized) petitioned and ended up suing the USG for the right to enlist in the military.
There is also an interesting story about a gunner on either a Navy patrol bomber of USAAC bomber in the pacific that was a natural born US citizen of Japanese parents (so he was Nisei). He had joined the service prior to WWII, so he was never removed or interned. Since he was fluent in both Japanese and English he ended up doing a lot of intelligence work.
gravenimage says
+1
J.W.K. says
Why on earth would anyone with a brain care about the feelings of the very ones who perpetrated it?
gravenimage says
Damn good question.
Brenda says
One wonders what these so-called ‘administrators’ administrate? Or where they obtained their degrees? Nazi atrocities mostly belong to Germany not the United States. Communism atrocities mostly belong to Russia and China not the United States.
3,000 innocent American lives were lost on 9/11 in an unprovoked attack by Muslims (not Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists) and these so-called ‘Administrators’ need to be reminded.
QUESTION: When was the last time one of these ‘administrators’ saw a Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, etc….behead someone? Or drown someone in a cage? Or use a child as a shield? Or blow up a building?
Students do not give up the right to free speech when they enter college and these so-called ‘administrators’ need to be reminded of this as well.
If the college could be sued for cowardice and stupidity that would be great but at least they can be sued for a ‘freedom of speech’ issue.