Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’
A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates “negative and misleading stereotypes” against Muslims.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.
The signers were mostly students, but also some staff, as well as the Muslim Students’ Association and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Palestinian solidarity group at UMich.
The online memo, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the public university of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014.
It follows U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who served four combat tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps commendation, according to his official Facebook page. But the protestors see him differently.
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gmw0583 April 8th, 2015 at 17:11
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of M has approx. 42,000 students. 300 hundred complain (many of whom
sympathize with those who not only desired, but actually did, kill
American soldiers). It’s not the tail wagging the dog, it’s the ticks.
Just because they are little doesn’t mean they aren’t deadly. Just because they are few doesn’t mean they are morally correct.
I sometimes wonder if the real hatred about this movie is for the man’s
strength. He had it, they don’t, and they hate the reminder.