This is the same Rutgers that allowed the display of Jesus crucified on a dartboard and called it “art.”
Frontpage The April 5, 2016 issue of The Gleaner, the student paper of Rutgers University–Camden, published a cartoon of Muhammad, Buddha and Jesus in a bar. Its content, however, cannot be known at this point, because at the behest of Muslims on campus, and in a case fraught with implications for the health of the freedom of speech today, the entire issue has been deep-sixed. (BNI could not find the actual “offensive” Mohammed in question, but this might be it)
Two weeks after the cartoon was published, the April 19 issue of The Gleaner contained a letter from the terrorism-linked Muslim Brotherhood campus group, the Muslim Students Association, saying that it found the image offensive and asking The Gleaner to remove the image from the April 5 issue and circulate a new edition of that issue without it. The MSA letter claims that Christians and Jews on campus told MSA members that they, too, found the image offensive. (They are lying, only Muslims complained)
The MSA letter states: “Even though freedom of speech and press is emphasized and is something all of us value as proud Americans, the University prides itself on diversity of people of different faith and backgrounds so we feel that it is necessary to respect those faiths and backgrounds by honoring their beliefs.” (Notice how they include Jesus in their complaint as a way to validate their gripe, when everyone knows Muslims couldn’t care less about how Jesus is portrayed)
The April 19 Gleaner also contains a response to the MSA letter, written by Christopher Church, the Editor-in-Chief of The Gleaner. Church apologizes to the MSA and agrees to meet with it “so that we can rectify this issue and ensure that it doesn’t happen again.” He also agrees to remove any copies of the offending April 5 issue from the Gleaner boxes around campus and destroy them.
The double standard is stark: Jesus crucified on a dartboard is art – and what’s more, it’s courageous. One Rutgers student chortled on Facebook that the dartboard “art” was “hilarious,” and crowed that “we don’t have to cater to the wills of the Church or any denomination of Christianity or religion.” Those who complained would be admonished: Don’t you respect the freedom of expression, you right-wing bigot?
A cartoon of Muhammad, on the other hand, even one as innocuous as the one in The Gleaner appears to have been — that’s an outrage. No one was crowing in that instance about not having to cater to the wills of the mosque. On the contrary, the message was clear: Don’t you respect Muslims as human beings, you right-wing bigot?
This is the kind of “respect” being irrationally violent will win you. Rutgers officials knew that Christians weren’t going to kill them, and that they could mock Christianity with impunity. They would only start blathering about “respect” when it comes to Islam. This respect won at the point of a sword does not bode well for the future of free expression in the West.
“We don’t have to cater to the wills of the Church or any denomination of Christianity or religion.”
Don’t worry, as long as you and your useful idiots keep treating the Muzzies like saints and imply a vicious double-standard, you might as well find yourself under the jackboot of Islam before you know it.
Our freedom of speech bieng taken away more and more. Then the university apologies to them!! Can’t take a cartoon..you all are jokes.
Get the hell out of America..we don’t want a backward society here. Damn savages. Thanks to Obama , I’m seeing more and more of those damn rag heads. Parents pay that collage for their kids to go there. .we’re are there rights? America…free speech. Or will that be in history books? Once upon a time.
“…both ‘prophet’ mohammed and [NOT prophet] Jesus were respectable, influential figures in our ‘religious’ tradition. [But NOT Buddha, he was a nobody!]
“…It is not only us but both Christians and Jews on campus [no Buddhists?] have approached us complaining they feel offended by the image as well.”
WOW, openly and deliberately belittling Buddhists, and NO ONE calls them out?
Does anyone know how many Buddhists there are at Rutgers?
Someone should get hold of a copy of that ‘hot’ item and maybe reproduce it.
It should certainly be archived on The Wayback Machine, and elsewhere.
It should also join library displays, so beloved by leftard librarians, of ‘banned books’.
Finally, we will have that banal situation, of any correspondence on the topic, being conducted in the absence of Exhibit A, just like what happened with the ‘Danish’ cartoons.
“both ‘prophet’ mohammed and [NOT prophet] Jesus were respectable, influential figures in our ‘religious’ tradition.”
Huck, are you actually saying there is some comparable commonality between Jesus the Christ and moMAD the murdering pedophile? Pray tell me ONE respectable thing the musslime vermin, thug EVER did!
The “walk into a bar” cartoon is the stupid liberal version of reality.
Very rarely do leftist cartoonists leave any concept of reality in their depictions. Many of them have the very same notions as an artist who worked for the Nazi ministry of propaganda–just ugly, despicable lies.
Next up for Rutgers, put on your head sacks and Berkas fpr both sexes and open your Sharia Court.
I don’t care if you were offended by a cartoon, you idiots. Are you mentally ill, that you cannot tolerate a cartoon? What dimwits. Grow up, dimwits.
I used to shoot at regular bulls eye targets of zombies and monsters.
Now i only use targets of pedo mohammad and i gotta tell you. My aim has improved.
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To bad I was hoping to get a job their as a political satirist. I’d had some good cartoons, the one of Mohammed bent over a Quran while he gets sexually assaulted by a camel wearing a Make America Great again hat. The other one of Christians standing behind kneeling Isis members with knifes to their throats and the Christians saying, what would Jesus do…And another one with Isis members w machetes in hand while chasing a Muslim caught having sex w a pig wearing a hijab. Maybe I can get a job at Charlie Hebdo.
just goes to show that Rutgers is another yardbird waste product phallic cranium school.. were they admire and orally manipulate the posterior of the slim community. Yet they give the finger salute to Jesus.. allowing the abomination art project. But destroying the freedom of speech in reporting. Now we know Rutgers is a Benedict Arnold when it comes to freedom of the Press.
It’s a disgrace when a fine University kowtows to the myopic demands of a group of callow and religiously bigoted brats. What happened to the Kent State of Intolerance for bullshit, or for the position of Berkeley that school is for learning, “so get your asses back to class or you’re outa here” ?
Come on Rutgers…..stand up to these little assholes because more then likely they will be your killers in the future.
Wow! I am a Christian and firmly believe that Jesus has a sense of humor. He has to. After all, He made “ME”. And…if you ever want to hear God laugh…tell HIM your plans. He’ll say, “wanna bet?” However the dartboard Jesus…yes it offends me. Jesus drinking wine…doesn’t!
Angelgirl
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Me two.
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I just love the line from Mr. Azad’s letter that the depiction “would evoke unwanted reaction from devoted followers.” I’m sure he meant that in a loving peaceful manner.
My, my, what progress in tolerance American academia has made in its example of tolerance! Book-burning has returned on behalf of the religion of forced submission, Islam means Submission and forced conversion! Meanwhile let’s make fun of what Muslims do to Christians since stabbing is one of their favorite conversion methods! One of the really sad things about modern intellectual centers of learning is that they have no regard for historical accuracy in going off the deep end with their ideas!
The pic of Muhammad is deceitful-he should be holding a sword not a lollipop! As far as the pic of Buddha let’s be real! Gautaum Buddha refused to help his family and home tribe in India when they were massacred and contemplated his actions and later developed the idea of Logic or Discrimination having a place in the Doctrine of Enlightenment so that the Enlightened would not set themselves up to be victims of evildoers! The Buddhists of Burma are acting on this example!
Also, Muhammad deliberately told his followers to kill in Allah’s name so the cartoon is again, incorrect and misleading! The Buddhists of Myangar or Burma are acting with clear minds following the enlightened path of removing from their midst the Sharia believers who wish to kill them and steal their country away from them! To them, I say “Sat Nam” and “Namaste”!
Compliant: “willing to do whatever you are asked or ordered to do : ready and willing to comply. : agreeing with a set of rules,”
In other words fools(raca), or ignorant people, people with NO foundation of their own, OR subservient assisters, thinking to gain time or standing with very evil deadly creatures, such as crocodiles or musslimes. Or these are just your typical whimpering, idiots willing to follow the LOUDEST, MOST THREATENING command.
I’m embarrassed to admit my son graduated from there and each time they call for donations I tell them where they can Stick It!
I do the same thing with my university…even moreso after they had Obama the candidate in a debate there.