[ April 23, 2024 ]
What really makes students unsafe is the jihad against the U.S. that American Sniper depicts accurately. What really makes students unsafe is the kneejerk anti-Americanism and kowtowing to Islamic supremacism on college campuses today — the things that led to this cancellation.
American Sniper made me proud to be an American. It tells the truth about the war we are in and the savages we are fighting (a word used repeatedly, I might add).
Every film about war about and since Vietnam, with few exceptions, has been a left-wing hate-filled attack on America. Proud, patriotic films about American heroism and goodness have gone the way of all great American institutions, such as individualism, liberty, and capitalism under the decades-long siege by the left.
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And when a film comes along that bucks that trend, the leftist establishment in academia and the media unites to make sure young Americans don’t see it.
“Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe,’” by Derek Draplin, The College Fix, April 8, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):
University: ‘While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program’
A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates “negative and misleading stereotypes” against Muslims.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.
The signers were mostly students, but also some staff, as well as the Muslim Students’ Association and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Palestinian solidarity group at UMich.
The online memo, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the public university of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014.
It follows U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who served four combat tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps commendation, according to his official Facebook page. But the protestors see him differently.
“Chris Kyle was a racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians,” the collective letter stated. “Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity and watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to MENA and Muslim
students who are too often reminded of how little the media and world values their lives. … The University of Michigan should not participate in further perpetuating these negative and misleading stereotypes.”
The film was set to be shown Friday on campus, but the letter – which asked for its cancellation – was successful.
“While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcomed at our program,” stated The Center for Campus Involvement, which oversees student activities and is run by university employees, as it announced its decision Tuesday on its various social media accounts, including Twitter and Facebook.
“We deeply regret causing harm to members of our community, and appreciate the thoughtful feedback provided to us by students and staff alike.”
(Above right: image of collective letter; not all signatories shown)
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald confirmed to The College Fix on Tuesday the movie was cancelled.
“The Center for Campus Involvement … did hear concerns from students,” Fitzgerald said, noting he did not have further details at the time.
The Center for Campus Involvement did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment, but its official Twitter account noted “Paddington Bear,” a PG-rated movie about a stuffed animal’s misadventures, will be shown instead of “American Sniper.”
“We have elected to pull the film from this week’s program and screen another movie in its place that we believe better creates the fun, engaging atmosphere we seek, without excluding valued members of our community,” the center stated.
But not all students agree with this decision.
“It would be nice to see the university … take a stand against outrageous claims of ‘student exclusion,’” University of Michigan sophomore Jason Weaver told The College Fix. “The film American Sniper in no way creates student exclusion any more than Saving Private Ryan. Both show American soldiers at war, the atrocities of war, and the costs of war, yet I’m sure Saving Private Ryan would not illicit the same response. Just because the enemy in American Sniper shares ethnicity with students on campus does not mean they are conflated as the enemy any more than a German student should be conflated with Nazism.”
“American Sniper” was set to be shown as part of the center’s “UMix Late Night” program, which brings movies, games, dances and other social events to the student body. The center is responsible for more than 300 co-curricular programs each year, including cultural and educational programs, films, art exhibits, UMix Late Night, athletic/spirit activities and various performance groups and concerts, its website states.
“We in the Center for Campus Involvement and the UMix Late Night program did not intend to exclude any students or communities on campus through showing this film,” the center’s announcement stated.
“… UMix should always be a safe space for students to engage, unwind, and create community with others, and we commit to listening to and learning from our community in the interest of fostering that environment. … We will take time to deeper understand and screen for content that can negatively stereotype a group.”
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34 Comments
9 years ago
Cowards.
9 years ago
Just another example of a minority of thought suppressing the free exchange of ideas on campus. They should rename UM, the Gulag.
9 years ago
What makes America really unsafe are the Muslim doctors graduating out of American Universities then working to undermine us.
the Umma Clinic which is run by DrM a popular Loon Watch
member. Loon Watch claim to fight hate and ‘islamophobia’ but their veteran
member DrM of drmaxtor.blogspot.com is notorious anti west, anti hindu
anti-semite https://disqus.com/by/1DrM
Dr Rushdie Cader AKA Dr Maxtor AKA DrM is the founder of the Umma Clinic in California. http://www.ummaclinic.org which receives public funds. He is a UCLA graduate and he founded this Muslim clinic
http://drmaxtor.blogspot.com/2006/10/ummah-community-clinic.html.
Wikipedia page for Umma Clinic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMMA_Community_Clinic
Umma Clinic Twitter account where he is careful not to show his true colours like he does at Loon Watch
https://twitter.com/ummaclinic
Facebook – UMMA Community Clinic
https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMMA-Community-Clinic/155816815511
DrM doesnot reveal his real life identity at Loon Watch or at his
blog where he claims to write about medical issues and ‘muslim’ issues.
He is a Muslim activist well known amongst American Muslims but he is careful to hide his hatred of the West under his real identity preferring to spew his bile anonymously as DrM at his own blog
drmaxtor.blogspot.com
Umma Clinic Twitter account where he is careful not to show his true colours like he does at Loon Watch
https://twitter.com/ummaclinic
Facebook – UMMA Community Clinic
https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMMA-Community-Clinic/155816815511
Since 2007 DrM has been a heavy contributor to Loon Watch and has not updated his own blog. He now posts regularly at Loon Watch which also anonymous and run by an Islamist. Probably DrM. You can see his commenting history at Loon Watch by doing a simple google search or by looking at his posting history on Disqus https://disqus.com/by/1DrM/.
Dr Rushdie featured in Saudi media
https://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200703/healing.south.central.htm
DrM has been cited approvingly at many anti-semitic sites including Stormfront:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t507704
DrM who are a fifth column.
9 years ago
Reply to
AntiSemiticDoctorsAlert
You are 100% correct on this guy. Check out the ugly and racist comments he made when I pointed out that islam is a misogynist socio-political belief system (you have to read a way down in the comments).
http://www.loonwatch.com/2015/03/ayaan-hirsi-ali-convert-to-white-supremacy/
I urge everyone to spend some time on these sites to counter the
islamo propaganda. From the BAD doctor’s comments it is clear he hates America and our system, even as he benefits from it.
9 years ago
Reply to
sandra schmidt
loon Watch is anonymous, all the so called writers are anonymous which means it is likely one person.
He shifted tactics if he is the one behind this . Supposedly Loon Watch fights ‘islamophobia’.
9 years ago
Reply to
AntiSemiticDoctorsAlert
If you have evidence that Dr. Rushdie Cader is definitely Dr. Maxtor AKA DrM, I would like to use it to file a complaint with the CA Medical Board. Someone who spews that kind of poison definitely should not received government funds. I doubt the Medical Board would take too kindly to what appears to be hate speech against Caucasians, but who knows?
I tried to out him on loon watch, but my comment with his name was sent to the moderator and not published.
9 years ago
We’re going to see a lot more self-imposed sharia and immolation of our values and proud heritage just to please the islamic bully. America has carried political correctness to an absurd level, endangering the lives of others and jeopardizing our country’s future. With every appeasement & capitulation we empower muslims’ capacity for terror and murder, and we hasten our own demise into islamic servitude and tyranny. I found a saying…
“If you turn and face the other way when someone is being bullied, you might as well be the bully too.”
Let’s not be a bully. Let’s stand for America and defend human rights. Islam must be defeated.
9 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
I’ll see the immolation of those trying to force sharia on me, before I’ll submit.
9 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
9 years ago
What happen, the local IMAM issue a Fartwa that if the University showed American Sniper they would get attacked like in Kenya ???? What a bunch of stinking Collaborating Cowards . They can bash and slander Christians, Jews, Patriots and our Military yet cower in fear of the Muslim . Why ??? Because they know the Muslim will attack if given the slightest reason while Christians and Jews will just shrug their shoulders and get on with life .
9 years ago
This is a shame it would have kept them quite for 2 hours. Now they will probably organize more student committees on how to invoke more BDS against Israel. I am blessed that I never went to university. However I got my PhD in life science in the IDF.
9 years ago
I live in Michigan. Ann Arbor is Marxist enclave
9 years ago
You know Ku Klux Kair was involved.
9 years ago
Since they are adherents to a “religion” that worships the death and destruction of the people and the country they presume to be a part of — they should feel unwelcome.
And if they were or ever could be Americans, “feeling unwelcome” would not be a cause for them to agitate and threaten to infringe the freedoms of expression and association of others. This is how a great country falls — with a whimper.
9 years ago
These are the kinds of events — like the elections of “obama,” the ceremony in the Bergdahl Garden, the capitulation to Iran, etc, etc — that prove to malevolent islamics everywhere that the United States is already a muslim country.
The University of Michigan should truly be ashamed and it should take whatever steps necessary to rescind this act of cowardice immediately and publicly.
Bending under the most cynical and hypocritical pressure from a self-proclaimed insurgency in the United States to cancel a movie depiction of one great American who did have the courage and initiative worthy of our founding to willingly sacrifice to defend this country against these mortal enemies.
We need someone, somewhere and soon to stand up to this dire disease that is creeping through our body politic and tell everyone that if muslims want to live here they need to acknowledge to themselves and everyone else that they are second-class citizens and they can’t force America to conform to them by their whining.
If they can’t publicly and demonstrably acknowledge this we need to ask them all to leave. And the ones who won’t leave — we remove. One way or another.
This is what it’s coming to.
9 years ago
for students or alumni
Petition to reinstate showing American sniper on U of M campus
9 years ago
The film “made students feel unsafe”.
Is there a right to feel safe?
“You people will never be safe”, warned the muslim killer of Lee Rigby, “
We are forced by the Koran, in Sura At-Tawba…”
That sura, or chapter, overrides and “abrogates” all the peaceful verses
elsewhere in the Koran, because it is the latest complete chapter. “Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them”, it commands (v.5), and it is part of Islamic law.
That should make the non-muslim students feel really safe.
9 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
If they want to feel safe, they should stop acting despicably and perpetrating evil around the world.
Unfortunately they are too safe. I would like to make it a lot less safe for these savages.
9 years ago
Great promotional piece for the film! Banned in Michigan. If Muslim students feel “unsafe” in Ann Arbor , they should move to Syria!
9 years ago
Reply to
El Cid
tada! I definatly support their moving back to barbaric country of origin and see how ””safe”’ they feel.
9 years ago
Oh Geez, Poor Lambs! Feel Unsafe? Why try being a Christian or Jew in a Mulsim country? Try being in the WTC, the Pentagon, or a lone plane smashed on the ground in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001!! What lack of BACKBONE the University of Michigan has! Oh, I’m sure the muslims don’t want to see the Jihad going on in the mid-east, but they sure plant themselves in front of the internet to see the beheading of other people in the mid-east. Talk about feeling unsafe! Then let’s all go to the nearest theatre and pay the $6 to see the film yourself and learn what the price we American service people pay to try to keep people free from tyranny – whether it be the tyranically Sadam Hussein dictator and his murdering regime, or the Al Queida in Afghanistan who took away the livlihood of women – professional women – doctors – having to beg starving in the streets because they were not allowed to work – and the ignorance of Boko Murderers who want no education for women, only use women and young girls for sex and breeding more illiterate barbarians to kill the rest of us as soon as they are old enough to be pointed at a target (us) with a bomb strapped on their little bodies. I’m feeling UNSAFE because these barbarians come to the USA and push their hatred agenda onto us free Americans. They can go hide in their burka back to barbaric country of origin and leave us the hell alone.
9 years ago
These students are the kind that protested the wars instead of fighting them.
9 years ago
They should ban muslims from attending their school for making students feel unsafe..After all they are terrorist
9 years ago
IDIOTS!! 95% of the violence in the world right now, is caused by radical moslems, Africa, China, Russia, America, UK, France, etc…. they need to be ERADICATED and anyone who supports them and their raping of children!!
9 years ago
Follow the money. What percentage of U of M’s revenue comes from muslim sources?
9 years ago
The University buckled instead of standing up for freedom of expression. What have we come to? The PC Police have now effectively taken more and more of our freedom away and we seem to sit by passively and let it happen.
Enough is enough. Let the Muslim students make their own anti American movie instead of slandering an American hero. Or let them go home to the cesspools they come from.
Do they feel unwelcome? Well, savages who behave despicably and those who support them should feel unwelcome. Give me a break!
Toughen up, Mooslim crybabies.
9 years ago
Muslims SHOULD feel unsafe. They should feel unsafe enough to leave free civilized countries and go back to their primitive desert tents. Frankly, I feel unsafe knowing Muslims are anywhere in my vicinity.
9 years ago
So now the Muslims have gained enough sway to have films they disapprove of cancelled. Are we still living in America? WE CAN’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO US!
9 years ago
This is a violation of free speech. If you do not want to go to the movie then don’t go. Who are these bastards to impose censorship on everyone else. How about ” I feel unsafe on campus because of MENA so please abolish this funded group as it is exclusionary and racist and is obviously not open to the community at large”. Students do not really give a crap about this move, they are too busy going to parties and studying. They do not see the inherent dangers of these groups. Perhaps they should wake up and become involved.
