This pernicious character assassination has to stop.
Stacy McCain has the details at the Washington Times.
A national conservative organization today called on George Washington University to expel students who admitted targeting the group in a hoax that covered the campus with hundreds of anti-Muslim posters.Read the rest.
"Vicious personal attacks levied on students are intolerable, and should not go unpunished," Ron Robinson, president of the Young America's Foundation, wrote to GW President Steven Knapp.
In a letter (download PDF) obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Robinson cited a statement Monday by GW Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger, who said he "would support expulsion" of students responsible for distributing the "heinous" posters.
YAF was the target of posters diplayed around the university's Foggy Bottom campus Monday that proclaimed "Hate Muslims? So Do We!"
Muslim students at the university said they felt "attacked" by the posters. A group of seven students — including a nationally known anti-war activist and an officer of the GW Progressive Student Union — admitted responsibility yesterday, saying the hoax was aimed at "exposing Islamophobic racism."
A student conservative leader said GW officials initially accused his group of publishing the posters, which Mr. Knapp condemned Monday as "reprehensible."
"We were treated as suspects until the university got all the facts right," said Sergio Gor, a GW senior and YAF activist. "The only reason we got attacked was because we're a conservative group."
Mr. Gor said he was "shocked and appalled" by the posters, which targeted "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," a nationwide event planned later this month by YAF.
UPDATE: More from Michelle Malkin.
Also from the WashTimes, a blog roundup.
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