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You ignorant Americans with your savage and macho patriotism. Chanting USA at a football game on 9/11 is incredibly insensitive to our Muslim population that has been constantly under attack by US imperialist actions. It’s propaganda and an lowly militarism according to David Green; a University of Illinois Professor quoted in the independent publication “Daily Illini”.
Universities.....liberal cesspool breeding grounds.
“Patriots are prone to “obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk” chants.
Daily Illini – Block-I chant portrays ‘neither patriotism nor remembrance’
The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.
The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
Isn’t he insulting Muslims by stating that that they would be offended by people chanting “USA”? I would be offend by David Green’s rant if I were a Muslim.
If it is true, and chanting USA offends them, maybe they shouldn’t be in the USA. Pukes like this guy should pack up and leave too. They have 57 Islamic countries to choose from. Enjoy Sharia law bitches!
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Ahh you’re a fag, he’s right. The worst part about 9/11 is It gave the fuckin seppos another excuse to go to war and drag my country into it. We are obamas greatest ally after all lol
Obama increased troops in Afghanistan. You’re not a very good ally.