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Wafaa Bilal interviewed on the RPI censorship

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Iraqi-born Chicago-based artist Wafaa Bilal interviewed after his show called Virtual Jihadi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was "suspended" and he was shut out of the arts building. The art piece consists of a hacked video Al Qaeda video game called Night of Bush Hunting. The artist inserted himself as a virtual suicide bomber as a way of referencing his own anger and despair over his brother and father's death during the American occupation as well as the anger and despair of Iraqis who have lost control of their lives.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: March 9, 2008 at 3:36 am
Author: jimfinn1968

Length: 08:16
Rating: 5.00
Views: 4963

Tags: artist  censor  censorship  college  game  Iraq  Jihad  republicans  RPI  video  virtual  

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xtremerace (July 5, 2008 at 5:32 pm)
Bush killed a million people in Iraq. Dude how would you feel if someone killed your relative , friend or something. how hard is that understand you dumbfucks out there.
xtremerace (July 5, 2008 at 5:29 pm)
WTF, so one way bashing is allowed but not other way around.
facingtheplastic (March 31, 2008 at 5:23 am)
Bilal, you are amazing.
Phana24JeffG (March 28, 2008 at 1:53 am)
I have no problem with Waffle Boy spreading whatever message he desires, provided it does not incite vioence, libel or slander non-public figures, etc. I also believe that cracking down with the Building Code was not a good idea. While legal, it gave Waffle Boy more publicity, the Sanctuary sympathy, and was a poor political tactic, and the TIMING gives me some First Amendment concerns.
jimfinn1968 (March 28, 2008 at 1:37 am)
I would also like to comment on your comment about my fairness. I don't think its my position to raise up Wafaa Bilal as some kind of art martyr, and actually my opinion of the art work is irrelevant. Free speech is not always pretty. I have strong views and am not thrilled to hear opposite views every night on TV, across the internet and on the streets (a guy with a Nazi tatoo walked by me the other day here in upstate NY). As Don Rumsfeld says, democracies are messy. We have to deal with it.
jimfinn1968 (March 28, 2008 at 1:35 am)
Fair enough. Dog or iraqi waterboarding of course is insane. It's meant to shock the audience with the horrific suggestion of torturing an animal, which then makes the audience think about the reality of torturing a human.
Phana24JeffG (March 28, 2008 at 12:53 am)
Glad you decided to jump in. First, I wanted to congratuate you for making reasonably objective videos with both sides of the issue. While you were not bias-free, you did a much better job than the drive-by media. I must confess that while I am quite intelligent, I am a redneck, which means by definition, I have a glorious lack of sophistication. The irony does escape me.
jimfinn1968 (March 28, 2008 at 12:23 am)
Irony is not easy to understand. You have to work at it.
Phana24JeffG (March 27, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
Hey moonbats, have you seen the latest proposal from your terrorist-loving hero Waffle-Boy? He is now proposing waterboarding a dog. Planning on sponsoring this show?
Phana24JeffG (March 27, 2008 at 11:13 pm)
Good point, Cris. Very few people are capable of understanding the nuances of NASCAR, and even fewer have knowledge of military science. After all, to properly understand the development of a NASCAR race, a good grasp of aerodynamics, material science, and automotive engineering is essential. Perhaps that explains why so few liberals are NASCAR fans, the sport is simply too complex for fine arts and poly sci majors to begin to comprehend.


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