From: souissi@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Ridha Souissi)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Jewish Students Assaulted
Keywords: Jews Assault
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:45:24 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <slater.703309719@envius> slater@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Slater) writes:
>
>                          Jewish Students Assaulted
>
>                            For Immediate Release
>           [N.B. This press release was written by Howard Rosenburg.]
>
>
>	URBANA, IL -- Two Jewish students, University of Illinois Senior in
>Engineering Rob Slater, 22, and William Dubin, 23, were assaulted on Saturday
>by a participant at an Islamic Culture Society event entitled "Jerusalem: Still
>Under Zionist Occupation."  The assailant, a Muslim man in his 30's, was
>selling books on the University of Illinois campus, where the program was
>taking place.
>
>	The assailant was approached by the two students who had noticed that
>he was selling anti-semitic materials.  Titles included "The Case Against the
>Little White Slaver" by Henry Ford Sr., "The Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth
>Century" by Arthur Butz, and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." All three
>of these works contain highly antisemitic material.
>
>	The Jewish students wanted to take a photograph of the table to show
>others that these materials were still being bought and sold.  When they
>attempted to take the photograph, they were informed by the assailant that he
>would have no part in it.
>
>	The students proceeded to explain that why they were allowed to take
>the photographs and why they wanted to take the pictures. When the picture was
>finally taken, the assailant responded by wrestling for the camera and finally
>breaking it by throwing it onto the ground. He then began punching Dubin, the
>photographer, and chasing him into the lecture hall.
>
>	The assailant then went back outside and punched Slater four times
>sending him to the ground.  He then tried to leave the scene claiming that
>his "civil rights of privacy were violated and that he would do it again
>[strike the Jewish students]" given the opportunity.  His efforts to leave
>the scene failed when another student verbally detained him.
>
>	A few minutes later, the University Police arrived to restore order
>and to take statements. The matter has been turned over to the State's
>Attorney for further action.
>
>	While the camera sustained serious damage, neither Slater nor Dubin
>were seriously injured.
>
>--
> Rob Slater                                     | "When all else fails, try
> Choices/Tapestry -- Dept. of Computer Science  |  reading the directions!"
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign       |    --Rob's guiding
> Internet: rslater@uiuc.edu                     |      philosophy


I think that the two Jewish students were asking for trouble.
They don't have the right to take pictures of other people
without their consent.  Who gives them the permission or the
authority.  The man selling the literature might have been
also asking for trouble by selling these kinds of books.
But are these books outlawed/censored? doesn't he have the
right to do it?  Please keep us informed on the process of this
case.
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