Mizzou Students Hold ISIS Flag Burning Rally
Chants of “USA! USA! USA” broke out the University of Missouri campus Thursday as a group of students held an ISIS flag burning ceremony on the quad.
The event was held by the Young Americans for Liberty and featured food, music, and freedom, because America.
Ian Paris lights the handmade ISIS flag on fire. A crowd of about 150 chants "USA." pic.twitter.com/Wl2vZlcpE7
— Kaley Annabel (@KaleyJohnson6) October 8, 2015
The burning of an ISIS flag is well within the group’s First Amendment rights and they even cleared it with MU campus police first, but not every student was thrilled with the act. Some felt the publicity stunt posed a risk to campus safety, especially in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in France back in January.
Counter protest in support of student safety at the ISIS Flag burning event @Mizzou pic.twitter.com/ZOslJzCEfo
— Anurag Ram (@AnuragRC) October 8, 2015
Still, if images of their flag being burned by college students hurts them more than the heartless beheadings and killings they execute on a daily basis, then they’re more screwed in the brain than previously thought.
According to US officials, 10,000-plus ISIS fighters were killed in a 9-month campaign. Ten thousand down, many more to go.
Plus, the flag burning gave some lucky couple a proposal to remember.
Lol how pissed would you be if you were the girl getting proposed to on the quad as people were burning the ISIS flag/rallying next to you
— Jess Bowser (@jess_bowser) October 8, 2015
Love is in the air..
Images via Les Raymond Masters, Shutterstock
“Those who would give up Liberty to purchase Safety deserve neither” – Ben Franklin. #America
10 years ago at 10:43 pmI hope every school in the country follows Mizzou
10 years ago at 12:31 amWasn’t surprised at all to see it was some geed in cargo shorts protesting
10 years ago at 1:36 amNeither were the other six guys who said this
10 years ago at 4:19 amYea I think everyone was about as unsurprised by this as your parents will be when you come out of the closet
10 years ago at 12:11 pmSHOOTING AT NAU OUTSIDE GPHI, keep everyone there in your prayers. We’ll probably hear more about this tomorrow.
10 years ago at 4:28 amThe funniest/saddest part about those liberal protesting dweebs is that they’re pre-emptively victim blaming, which they would flip the fuck out about someone else doing in any other context.
10 years ago at 8:28 amI think you’re all missing the most important part of this article… Those cannons on Jess Bowser
10 years ago at 8:44 amWhy am I not surprised that the guy holding the counter protest is rocking cargos
10 years ago at 9:11 amDisregard my above comment: alcohol
10 years ago at 9:13 amGood thing 2 white students were there to check their privilege!
USA
10 years ago at 10:00 amThose cargos
10 years ago at 10:07 aminstead of burning their flag, how about we just fight them the same way we fought the germans?
10 years ago at 10:59 am