On the heels of my prior post regarding the "logic" of political correctness, we have this little tidbit from James Taranto of the Journal, about a little party that was held at San Francisco State University:

This story starts with an "anti-terrorism rally" held last October on campus by the College Republicans. To emphasize their point, students stomped on Hezbollah and Hamas flags. According to the college paper, the Golden Gate (X)Press, members of Students Against War and the International Socialist Organization showed up to call the Republicans "racists," while the president of the General Union of Palestinian Students accused the Repubs of spreading false information about Muslims.

(So far, everything everyone's done is legal. Not polite, but certainly legal.)

In November, the Associated Students board passed a unanimous resolution, which the (X)Press reported, denounced the California Republicans for "hateful religious intolerance" and criticized those who "pre-meditated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence." . . .

I must interject: Yea. Try that argument with a "progressive" vis a vis the U.S. flag. In that case, offending the majority of American's is considered a GOOD thing.........

At any rate, it turns out the word "Allah" is written on both flags in Arabic script, giving a little traction (not much) to the criticism. No matter. The point is that again, from the political correctness movement, social order (under the guise of "not causing offense" is positioned as more important than freedom of speech. Totalitarians all over the world must be smiling.

Taranto continues thusly:

"One obvious question is whether SFSU would act similarly if someone mistreated an Israeli flag, which also incorporates a religious symbol, on campus. That has happened at least in the neighborhood, as the Associated Press reported in April 2002:

In San Francisco, close to 500 pro-Palestine demonstrators took to the streets near San Francisco State University for several hours, yelling chants, burning paper Israeli flags and even grabbing an Israeli flag out of the hands of a passing motorist who lofted it from her sunroof.

And of course we all know that burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment. Political correctness has become a parody of itself when a public university is enforcing religious sensibilities that treat political symbols of terrorist organizations as holy objects."