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George Washington University: Police Investigate Posters Lampooning Conservative Student Group

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In September 2017, police at George Washington University launched an investigation into posters lampooning a conservative student organization by purporting to promote an event the group had conducted a decade earlier. The posters, depicting a 鈥渢ypical Muslim鈥 as having lasers emanating from their eyes and a 鈥減eg-leg for smuggling children and heroin,鈥 satirized the conservative group鈥檚 criticism of Islam by suggesting that the organization hates Muslims. On September 12, 2017, FIREwrote to the university, calling for an end to the investigation into the anonymous satirist. The university failed to respond.

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