SF State Bans Flag Burning....Only for Hezbollah and Hamas Flags

[DeanPatsFan]

At an Anti-terrorism rally at San Francisco State College Republicans "desecrated" Hezbollah and Hamas flags --and now there is a resolution against this and the College republicans may lose their "official student group status and or ASi funding"...over the flags of TERRORIST groups.

"“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.

The Nov. 15 resolution comes on the heels of several student and student organization complaints at board meetings and the Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development, or OSPLD, which has also sparked a separate investigation and assembly of a special panel to decide if the College Republicans did indeed violate the university’s conduct rules.

The resolution cited a rule outlined in the university’s Strategic Plan saying, “SFSU facilitates teaching, learning and work experiences among students, faculty and staff that promote equity and social justice within a respectful and safe environment.” (source)

I want to know how many AMERCIAN flags have been burned, drug and desecrated on SF State's campus... This has nothing to do with "religious intolerance" as the school contends. This is the problem, Muslims should be distancing themselves from groups like Haamas and Hezbollah right along side the College Republicans. They say over and over how terrorists do not represent Islam and Allah...yet here they are again defending the very groups they claim (in the press) defile their religion.

Fred Phelps claims to be a Christian, but you can burn the name of his church on my front lawn and I'll lend you the lighter... Rational people that abhor what Phelps does and what he promotes are not being intolerant of Christianity --they are intolerant of hate and insanity.

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]

Originally Posted by 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........

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[Pujo]

Originally Posted by DeanPatsFan

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

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]

Originally Posted by 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........

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.”

[DeanPatsFan]

Originally Posted by Pujo

is it only the hypocracy that you hate about SF, or is there something inherently wrong with its people?

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.

[All_Around_Brown]

Fred Phelps...hero of the right wing.

[PatsFanInEaglesLand]

Originally Posted by All_Around_Brown

Fred Phelps...hero of the right wing.

To bad he is a Democrat

[Pujo]

Originally Posted by DeanPatsFan

Does the word Sodom ring a bell?

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.