Muslim Student Leader at U. Missouri Protests Campus Screening of ‘American Sniper’
The student claims the film will make her feel unsafe. Oh, and it’s also a racist movie.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reports.
Muslim student leader protests campus screening of ‘American Sniper’
An upcoming campus screening of American Sniper at the University of Missouri has drawn fire for potentially offending Muslim members of the community.
At the heart of the controversy is a Muslim student activist who declared showing the film on campus would make her feel “unsafe” and demanded an “apology and explanation” as to how and why the movie was even selected for Mizzou audiences.
The uproar was taken quite seriously, and prompted the student government to conduct a meeting to determine whether the flick should be shown.
“This film is blatant racist, colonialist propaganda that should not be shown under any circumstances and especially not endorsed by a branch of student government that purports to represent me and have my best interests in mind,” student Farah El-Jayyousi, former president of the Muslim Student Organization, had stated.
She made the comments in a letter to the editor to The Maneater earlier this month, denouncing the decision to show the blockbuster – the highest grossing film of 2014. El-Jayyousi accused the movie of dehumanizing Muslims and glorifying the murder of Iraqis, and referred to Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL featured in the film, as “a killer with no regard for human life.”
El-Jayyousi, described by the University of Missouri’s website as a psychology and women’s and gender studies double-major and social justice advocate, went on to declare in her letter:
I do not feel safe on this campus and for good reason. The fact that this film is being shown, the fact that I have to explain why this film is not only problematic but harmful makes me feel even more unsafe. Showing this film will create an even more hostile environment for me and other Arab, Muslim, South Asian and people of color on this campus.
Muslim students protest campus screening of ‘American Sniper’ (The College Fix)
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell, original preface to Animal Farm
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Would somebody get this poor girl a sharp knife, or at least a really good pair of scissors? She has her knickers in a knot that Alexander would have found daunting!
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Farah El-Jayyousi is, unfortunately, a typical Islamic Supremacist; using the freedoms of this country as part of the attempt to destroy it. Her protestations ring of taqiyah and nothing else.