'Homophobia' posters spark outrage at Rhodes [WARNING! Graphic]

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WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES!

The stupidity of the Left on display again.

What is wrong with showing the truth? ;)

Graphic posters, apparently intended to expose Muslim homophobia, have provoked the anger of Rhodes University staff members, students and alumni.

The university's staff members, students and alumni said the posters are racist and xenophobic.

A 98-strong group has written an open letter to vice-chancellor Saleem Badat and his executive, deploring the university's Fairness Forum's decision that the posters were acceptable "on the basis of free speech". The forum's functions include advising the university in disciplinary cases, and its decision followed a staff member's complaint about the posters last month.

Attached to the letter are three examples of posters put up on campus and at a shopping centre during Israeli Apartheid Week in March. One depicts four hanged men with their hands tied behind their backs. Another shows three dead bodies lying on the ground surrounded by a crowd. The third portrays two blindfolded men about to be hanged.

"Homosexuality is a crime punished by imprisonment, flogging, stoning, hanging or beheading in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and others," says the text on one poster.

Robert van Niekerk, director of Rhodes's Institute of Social Economic Research said: "It was gut-wrenchingly offensive to see these lurid depictions of deceased individuals on posters without any respect for their dignity." He is a signatory to the open letter, which described the photos as "racist and xenophobic in the form in which they depict deceased people of Semitic origin".
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http://mg.co.za/article/2013-05-31-outrage-over-homophobia-posters

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and this is relevant to south african muslims how?
 
STS said:
and this is relevant to south african muslims how?
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Because they are so vocal against Israel, yet for some reason they refuse to point out the much harder and worse human rights violations going on in countries that they condemn.
 
I think they missing the point here and riding the islamophobic wave. Totally misrepresenting their cause.
The Islamic countries have had these laws for years and won't change it for any protest.

If these students want to make a change for their cause, why not tackle Uganda who in the last 12 months have outlawed homosexuality.
That's a recent development and a lot more current.
This pic from 1999 whether legit or not has very little relevance to our time even though their law still exists.
 
:( I wish I didn't open this thread. I don't want to see images like that.
 
Haldex said:
I think they missing the point here and riding the islamophobic wave. Totally misrepresenting their cause.
The Islamic countries have had these laws for years and won't change it for any protest.

If these students want to make a change for their cause, why not tackle Uganda who in the last 12 months have outlawed homosexuality.
That's a recent development and a lot more current.
This pic from 1999 whether legit or not has very little relevance to our time even though their law still exists.
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Apartheid was a law that was in existence for many years, should the world not have protested against that?
 
Nicodeamus said:
Because they are so vocal against Israel, yet for some reason they refuse to point out the much harder and worse human rights violations going on in countries that they condemn.
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and the posters are vocal against Iran while many african countries also condemn homosexuality and are experiencing genocide, i don't need to mention countries by name unless i have an agenda against them.

at the same time this reeks of the white genocide tactics of posting gruesome photos to evoke a reaction. if i want to see decapitated people, i'll go to documentingreality.com, i don't want to walk past posters wherever they were hung up
 
phaktza said:
Yup, because if you don't see it it doesn't exist, right?
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why don't you cover your house in photos of animal sex, child abuse, decapitations, rape photos and accidents. just because it happens in the world doesn't mean people want to be exposed to it. nobody gives a **** about leukemia or cancer until it happens to somebody they know, and there are plenty of other fatal diseases and abusive causes in the world, we can not be opposed to every cult/save every endangered animal/protest every way/hunt down every paedophile/save every child
 
STS said:
just because it happens in the world doesn't mean people want to be exposed to it.
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I thought about typing out a strong worded reply too, but then I decided not to let the internet make me angry.

I know this stuff happens, but I don't want to see it.

Same with that stuff about the guy getting killed in Woolwich. Seeing that video was deeply disturbing to me. I am sensitive to that type of stuff eg. real violence.

I can play and watch super violent video games and tv and I have no problem with that, but as soon as it becomes real I really don't want to see, and I think I have a right to ask for someone to not embed pictures that greet you straight away.

It's also very irresponsible for those people to put up posters like that for the public to see. Yes it's cause for concern and terrible that these things happen, but I would much rather stay in my sheltered box, and I don't consider myself naive or ignorant for it.
 
Whatever the case, I think that we are lucky to be exposed to death while staying alive, rather than being exposed to death by being killed...
 
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