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Glory to Our Martyrs? Really?! – HotAir

The latest slogan at the college protests is particularly disturbing: “Glory to Our Martyrs.”

It seems that there has been an Islamist turn on college campuses.

I started noting this a few days ago, as videos of Muslim prayers and chants in Arabic began circulating, as well as of “instructors” teaching Hamas slogans to students on campus. More and more female students seem to be wearing their keffiyehs as Hijabs. 

It’s weird and frankly disturbing. 

At Portland State, for instance, students invaded and vandalized the library (good on them!), leaving behind not just a mess but slogans on the wall, including “Glory to Our Martyrs.” I assume they mean the terrorists who have gotten killed while attacking innocent Jews in Israel. 

You know, those fine people who rode paragliders into Israel to slaughter Jews. 

The heart emoji was a nice touch. 

It is bizarre to see faculty and students holding hands while listening to chants in Arabic. It is a scene out of Tehran, not New York City. 

Protesters are openly calling for the slaughter of Jews now, and for the most part the MSM is downplaying all this and assume that this is all rhetoric. 

It is not. Things are getting violent, and will get more so. 

Students are passively (or actively) listening to others, lecturing them in Arabic about how evil the Jews are, and they are drinking it in. It seems to be a sort of ecstatic, rapturous, or at least exciting experience for them as they immerse themselves in a movement much larger than themselves. 

The moral content of that movement doesn’t matter. Their education in activism, which began as they entered Kindergarten and has continued through college, has prepared them to latch onto a cause they don’t understand and subsume their identity into any movement that catches on. 

They cover their faces, where keffiyehs as Hijabs and repeat slogans as if they are profound. 

Why are so many Muslims here in the United States? It is because they found their own countries stifling and oppressive, one assumes. Yet, those very characteristics are being celebrated on American campuses and streets. 

It is appalling.

As Christianity has been driven out of public life, people are gravitating to ever more extreme causes to fill the spiritual void in their hearts. 

It is creepy to hear the robotic chants, in which pampered American students shout that they will “honor all our martyrs.” 

There is a spiritual sickness that has caused this, and it’s no coincidence that this sickness is spreading from our universities outward. 

It is a mind virus, and it is killing its host. 



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