U of C Shows Cartoons, Muslim Students Show Suicide Bomb Film
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 26, 2006 at 8:38 am PDT • Views: 318
The Objectivist Club at the University of Chicago held another event to show and discuss the Danish Mohammed cartoons last night: U.S. media response to cartoons skewered. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
The Chicago Tribune informs us that Muslim students who were invited to the event decided not to attend, and watched a movie instead.
As dozens gathered Tuesday night in a University of Chicago lecture hall to discuss the visceral and sometimes violent reaction to cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim students who had been invited decided to watch a movie across campus instead.
The movie watched by the Muslim students: Paradise Now, the Palestinian film glorifying suicide bombers.
Discussion organizers said they invited Muslim students, activists and faculty to participate, but they all declined. The Muslim Student Organization arranged a showing of the Palestinian film “Paradise Now,” which is about suicide bombers, in another building at the same time as the panel’s talk. The group’s leaders repeatedly declined to comment Tuesday night.
Frank says: