9/11 Memorial Vandalized at Michigan State University for Second Year in a Row
“There are many people who don’t think this event should be remembered or don’t see the significance of it”
This seems to happen on a college campus somewhere every year. It’s so outrageous.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Anti-War Vandals Deface 9/11 Memorial at Michigan State University
Anti-war vandals defaced a 9/11 memorial at Michigan State University for the second year in a row.
The school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter on Sunday assembled the memorial, which featured the words “Never Forget” and was surrounded by 2,977 American flags to commemorate the number of people killed in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. By Tuesday morning, vandals painted “bloody” handprints on the memorial, along with the phrase “461,000 Iraqi civilians,” an apparent reference to Iraq war casualties. Just last year, vandals erased the “Never” in “Never Forget” on the Young Americans for Freedom memorial at Michigan State, and spray-painted “Israel” over an American flag.
Since 2003, Young Americans for Freedom has constructed memorials on high school and college campuses as part of its 9/11: Never Forget Project. A spokeswoman for the group says 20 of their memorials have been vandalized since the project began in 2003. In 2021 a student leader at Washington University in St. Louis discarded the American flags from an identical memorial, which he called “insidious” and “a political prop upholding American hegemony.”
Michigan State Young Americans for Freedom chapter president Jaryn Crouson told the Washington Free Beacon that such vandalism shows why the memorials matter.
“There are many people who don’t think this event should be remembered or don’t see the significance of it,” Crouson said. “That’s why we do what we do.”
After vandals defaced the memorial, the university directed landscapers to discard the flags surrounding it, saying the memorial had been “abandoned.”
“The fact that the university felt 48 hours was too long to display a 9/11 memorial is appalling,” Crouson added.
Vandals defaced a 9/11 memorial at Michigan State University for the second year in a row.@yaf assembled the "Never Forget" memorial, which had 2,977 American flags to commemorate the number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks.
Via @jchristenson_ https://t.co/GwW18da1Pm
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 13, 2022
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Because life under Saddam and his offspring was so beneficial to Iraqi civilians.
Why do these protestors stay in such a hideous, hegemonic country?
What the protesters are ignorant of is that the vast majority of the Iraqis killed while the US was there were killed by other Iraqis. They were terror bombed going to the market. They were terror bombed standing in lines to apply for jobs. It was Muslims killing other Muslims… because that’s what Muslims have been doing for centuries.
The numbers of Muslims would be much lower were it not for the risk of death for leaving the religion or “insulting the Prophet”. Those who do are to be respected for their bravery. Those who don’t are simply captives.
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