Busy dodging thunderbolts...
*sigh*
I respect the religious greatly. I really do. And then I go to campus, and get reminded why I am so f***ing happy that I'm agnostic.
You see, at UCI, we have two "student associations" that 6 days out of 7 piss each other off: The Muslim Student Union and the Zionist Organization of America.
Guess why they might not like each other.
Both sides seem to delight in egging each other on. The New University, UCI's student newspaper, often has opinion pieces written by a member for one of the groups attacking the other, and next week you know there will be a response, then a response to the response, and so on. There has been national media coverage of some of the exploits, such as when three months ago when the College Republicans showed those Danish Cartoons during a speaking, where the MSU was a bit... vocal outside the event. There's been other types of things like this.
Well, the MSU threw some more powder into the keg last week, with their brilliantly concieved set of events entitled "Holocaust in the Holyland".
Yes. Holocaust in the Holyland.
One of the events was entitled "Isreal: The Fourth Reich".
I just feel that if it weren't for the fact that this is UCI, a college in southern California, where half of the student population is Asian or Pacific Islander, and this is the US where Christianity is kinda the big religion, we'd have riots at some point.
And, well, it just feels like neither side will be happy unless one side actually does get violent...
*sigh*
I respect the religious greatly. I really do. And then I go to campus, and get reminded why I am so f***ing happy that I'm agnostic.
You see, at UCI, we have two "student associations" that 6 days out of 7 piss each other off: The Muslim Student Union and the Zionist Organization of America.
Guess why they might not like each other.
Both sides seem to delight in egging each other on. The New University, UCI's student newspaper, often has opinion pieces written by a member for one of the groups attacking the other, and next week you know there will be a response, then a response to the response, and so on. There has been national media coverage of some of the exploits, such as when three months ago when the College Republicans showed those Danish Cartoons during a speaking, where the MSU was a bit... vocal outside the event. There's been other types of things like this.
Well, the MSU threw some more powder into the keg last week, with their brilliantly concieved set of events entitled "Holocaust in the Holyland".
Yes. Holocaust in the Holyland.
One of the events was entitled "Isreal: The Fourth Reich".
I just feel that if it weren't for the fact that this is UCI, a college in southern California, where half of the student population is Asian or Pacific Islander, and this is the US where Christianity is kinda the big religion, we'd have riots at some point.
And, well, it just feels like neither side will be happy unless one side actually does get violent...
*sigh*
posted by Wraithy at 5/23/2006 04:34:00 PM
1 Comments:
The student newspaper is probably just glad to have something to print. Having two groups as odds and ready to whip out an opinion piece as the drop of a hat is probably a god-send to them (pun fully intended).
What sells papers better than controversy?
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