DeanPatsFan

Let me get this right.... The fruity, nutty San Francisco libs say it's ok to burn the American flag or the cross but it's not ok to burn the flag of terrorist organizations?

I can only hope the big one is near and San Francisco slides off into the sea........

Pujo

Hopefully the students sue and win, the university should butt out. But it's not the CITY of San Fransisco, it's the college. It's a state school and needs to respect the first amendment, but you're barking up the wrong tree by blaming the whole city.

DeanPatsFan

The vast majority of the city holds the same values these students do.

Pujo

If we're gonna start throwing cities into the ocean because of people's values, nobody will be left. It's no doubt hypocritical for a place that prides itself on freedom to restrict freedom that it doesn't like, but is it only the hypocracy that you hate about SF, or is there something inherently wrong with its people?

DarrylS

Had to search for a while, but finally found a link tieing this to a site... not sure about the American Flag, but that seems unrelated to these actions..the following link gives a better explanation, than what you posted which seems to be from NEWSMAX or a similar site:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...t_Symbols&only

Preceding an ongoing investigation into SF State College Republican behavior, the Associated Students board unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the student group for purposely stomping on flags containing the Arabic symbol for God.

“Associated Students, Inc. deems the College Republicans’ actions as contrary to university values and feel they should be held accountable by the university for their actions,” the resolution says.

Amid heavy campus police presence at an Oct. 17 anti-terrorism rally in Malcolm X Plaza, some members of the crowd turned angry when the College Republicans stepped on homemade Hezbollah and Hamas flags, though the student group claims they were not initially aware the flags contained the Arabic symbol for God.

After that, the College Republican-organized rally dissolved into a heated shouting match between the group and a mix of students, including some Muslim students, eventually resulting in formal complaints to student representatives.

‘They were voicing their concerns that this event was even allowed. They were offended,” said Kimberly Castillo, board member and chair of University Affairs, the committee that drafted the resolution. “We felt it our duty to respond.”

Administrators have been criticized for even allowing the rally to take place.

“The actions on the part of the College Republicans amount to no more than hateful religious intolerance, and constitutes an attempt to defy policies outlined and defined by San Francisco State University’s values,” the resolution says. “Members ... pre-mediated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence.”

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DeanPatsFan

Does the word Sodom ring a bell?

Real World

Where I agree that the University's positions are indicative of San Francisco's majority, I have to side with Pujo in his point about differentiating the two. The University is not the City. I'm not in favor of any flag buring amendments or rules. If someone wants to burn one, then let them. I don't think it's ever productive to do so, but idiots will be idiots. Furthermore, who cares what symbol is on the flag, it is still a flag that represents the two groups. Those who burned the flags were not buring islam, they were burning Hamas and Hexbollah as some would burn the USA.

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All_Around_Brown

Fred Phelps...hero of the right wing.

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PatsFanInEaglesLand

To bad he is a Democrat

Pujo

Sure, I grew up in a religeous home. Something about fire and brimstone destroying Sodom and Gomorrah for the sins of their people. Though unfortunately, I'm not God, so I can't judge what two consenting people do behind closed doors.