According to Democracy Project, University of Pennsylvania president, Amy Guttman included in her annual Halloween party, a young man dressed as a suicide bomber complete with fake explosives strapped to his torso and mock executions. This is of course acceptable and even fashionable in liberal circles given the level of “tolerance” one must exhibit if one is to climb the liberal elite social hierarchy. And of course one must pose with such an enlightened guest for a photo least anyone should miss such display of “tolerance.” [Is she the good witch or the bad witch?]
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber, complete with plastic dynamite strapped to his chest and a toy automatic rifle. Worse, Gutmann posed with Saadi!
An obvious question: would Gutmann have posed with a guest–or even allowed him into her house–if he’d dressed as Adolf Hitler or a Nazi SS officer? A KKK member?
But in modern liberal circles, posing as a Palestinian suicide bomber (see his kefiya) is just fine. After all, he mainly tries to kill innocent Jews.
Given the level of anti-semitism on elite college campuses today, one can hardly be surprised at this kind of behavior. Disgusting.
Hope all the Penn alumni hear about this and make their feeling known when gifts are solicited by Penn.
March 21, 2007 at 7:29 am
[...] Eye Hacker covered a story I meant to get to — the controversy over the clueless president of the University of Pennsylvania posing with someone dressed as a completely outfitted suicide bomber for Halloween. That’s right on the edge of being another one of those boomeranging “October/November surprises” the left is inflicting on itself in the final weeks of the campaign. In fact, in PA it could sway a few votes in the Casey-Santorum race — and not in Casey’s direction. Michelle Malkin covered the apology on Friday. [...]