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Published October 27, 2007
[ From Lansing State Journal ]
Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU
Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech
Brendan Bouffard
Lansing State Journal
EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.
Protesters wouldn't have it.
Hurling obscenities and using chants to interrupt his address, rambunctious student organizations forced Griffin to abandon his speech and allow an informal question and answer session.
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What followed was an unstructured banter between the speaker and a crowd of roughly 75 protesters. While many attempted to ask Griffin legitimate questions, others shouted obscenities.
"We have all come from different backgrounds," said Authra Khreis, 17, a pre-med student and a protester. "We should accept one another. I don't think he should be allowed to speak. You can use free speech until you hurt another person."
Griffin was invited to campus by a conservative student organization called Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF.
Kyle Bristow, chairman of YAF, said his organization invited Griffin to promote intellectual debate. Bristow said he doesn't believe in many of the ideas Griffin has preached, particularly his alleged denial of the Holocaust, but does agree that the Islamic faith is a threat to America.
"I'll stop saying their religion is terrible when they stop flying planes into buildings," he said.
"Islam is horrible. The extreme in Christianity is 'love thy neighbor,' with Islam it is violence."
One student who engaged in a particularly long debate with Griffin was Junaid Mattu, a finance junior from India.
"I am a supporter of free speech, but at the same time there has to be a benchmark," he said. "Why does MSU time and time again show its insensitivity to minorities by inviting racists?"
Because several speakers invited to MSU by YAF have sparked controversy, MSU Trustee Faylene Owen is asking the Board of Trustees to take action.
"I realize that people like this have a right to speak on this campus, but we don't have to condone it," she said at a Friday meeting.
She called for a board resolution that "expresses our disapproval as a board of the message of hate expressed by this person."
"He's a hatemonger," she added in a later interview. "He says there's never been a Holocaust and Muslims are terrible people."
MSU President Lou Anna Simon said that Griffin's views on immigration and multiculturalism were "inconsistent with the values of Michigan State University."
"YAF has chosen an array of speakers that continue to test the values of the institution, both in terms of being antithetical to our values of being a multicultural, inclusive community and at the same time testing our commitment to free speech," she said.
"That's a very, very delicate balance."
But she also said the university allows student groups to invite speakers to campus and, for the time being, that policy would stand.
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A...70332/1001/news (http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/NEWS01/710270332/1001/news)
This is a shitty article and inside the room there where much more than 75 antiracists.
We broke a ´piiñata with the form of griffin and we had a huge ass banner that said "they shall not pass" in three languages.
Basically we forced Nick Griffin to not give his speech and instead it turned into a long ass question and answer session.
Someone turned on the fire alarm and the lights were turned off multiple times lol.
Also one of the professors almost got into a fight with a bonehead. He is this really well built black socialist. Basically he was trying to ask a question and this motherfucker was interrumpting him with racist remarks. The professor got pretty pissed off and started to tell him SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT DOWN LET ME FINBISH MY QUESTION. He started walking in his direction tell him to sit the fuck down and the bonehead still was standing up taunting him. The cops stopped anything from happening though.
The event wasn't a total success bnecause we didn't really shut him down. However we atleast sabotaged his speech really badly to the extent he didnt really give a speech and started answering questions.
There where some really angry boneheads who sometimes shouted SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET HIM
SPEAK.
Also it was full of smelly crusties lol
Antifascismo por siempre!
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Published October 27, 2007
[ From Lansing State Journal ]
Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU
Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech
Brendan Bouffard
Lansing State Journal
EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.
Protesters wouldn't have it.
Hurling obscenities and using chants to interrupt his address, rambunctious student organizations forced Griffin to abandon his speech and allow an informal question and answer session.
Advertisement
What followed was an unstructured banter between the speaker and a crowd of roughly 75 protesters. While many attempted to ask Griffin legitimate questions, others shouted obscenities.
"We have all come from different backgrounds," said Authra Khreis, 17, a pre-med student and a protester. "We should accept one another. I don't think he should be allowed to speak. You can use free speech until you hurt another person."
Griffin was invited to campus by a conservative student organization called Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF.
Kyle Bristow, chairman of YAF, said his organization invited Griffin to promote intellectual debate. Bristow said he doesn't believe in many of the ideas Griffin has preached, particularly his alleged denial of the Holocaust, but does agree that the Islamic faith is a threat to America.
"I'll stop saying their religion is terrible when they stop flying planes into buildings," he said.
"Islam is horrible. The extreme in Christianity is 'love thy neighbor,' with Islam it is violence."
One student who engaged in a particularly long debate with Griffin was Junaid Mattu, a finance junior from India.
"I am a supporter of free speech, but at the same time there has to be a benchmark," he said. "Why does MSU time and time again show its insensitivity to minorities by inviting racists?"
Because several speakers invited to MSU by YAF have sparked controversy, MSU Trustee Faylene Owen is asking the Board of Trustees to take action.
"I realize that people like this have a right to speak on this campus, but we don't have to condone it," she said at a Friday meeting.
She called for a board resolution that "expresses our disapproval as a board of the message of hate expressed by this person."
"He's a hatemonger," she added in a later interview. "He says there's never been a Holocaust and Muslims are terrible people."
MSU President Lou Anna Simon said that Griffin's views on immigration and multiculturalism were "inconsistent with the values of Michigan State University."
"YAF has chosen an array of speakers that continue to test the values of the institution, both in terms of being antithetical to our values of being a multicultural, inclusive community and at the same time testing our commitment to free speech," she said.
"That's a very, very delicate balance."
But she also said the university allows student groups to invite speakers to campus and, for the time being, that policy would stand.
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A...70332/1001/news (http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/NEWS01/710270332/1001/news)
This is a shitty article and inside the room there where much more than 75 antiracists.
We broke a ´piiñata with the form of griffin and we had a huge ass banner that said "they shall not pass" in three languages.
Basically we forced Nick Griffin to not give his speech and instead it turned into a long ass question and answer session.
Someone turned on the fire alarm and the lights were turned off multiple times lol.
Also one of the professors almost got into a fight with a bonehead. He is this really well built black socialist. Basically he was trying to ask a question and this motherfucker was interrumpting him with racist remarks. The professor got pretty pissed off and started to tell him SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT DOWN LET ME FINBISH MY QUESTION. He started walking in his direction tell him to sit the fuck down and the bonehead still was standing up taunting him. The cops stopped anything from happening though.
The event wasn't a total success bnecause we didn't really shut him down. However we atleast sabotaged his speech really badly to the extent he didnt really give a speech and started answering questions.
There where some really angry boneheads who sometimes shouted SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET HIM
SPEAK.
Also it was full of smelly crusties lol
Antifascismo por siempre!