If you missed it yesterday: “The rock” on the campus of Youngstown State University was discovered, Monday morning, to have been painted with pro-ISIS messages. “We are coming,” it said on one side. “YSU supports ISIS,” “France deserves destruction,” “Jihad over God.”
The university immediately took action, alerting Youngstown police, the FBI, and painting the rock white. Students gathered in the afternoon and painted an American flag and new messages on it, things like “God Bless America” and “World Peace.”
YSU President Jim Tressel praised the students, saying “it takes a true leader to paint the rock in daylight.”
In a statement, the University said that no threats had been validated — “there is no credible threat to the campus at this time” — but that police would continue to monitor the situation closely.
Additionally, a YSU spokeswoman said, the university would be reviewing its security footage.
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2015.
How have the comments not gone wild with this one??
I wish our government, specifically our President, actually made me feel safe. I’m not saying he’s supposed to be at YSU protecting us (for you liberals who love to do the shame thing, that’s a preempt) but its a general comment. Read on if you can contain your liberal judging.
Life feels like its become one $hitty pressure-cooker panic after another post 9-11. Instead of feeling more safe I feel more vulnerable. The latest craze of undocumented (potential-whackos) of-age males form the middle east flooding over our borders while Obama speaks about widows and orphans is disgusting.
I find a lot of things disgusting today, but I think most of what comes out of the Oval Office is the most disgusting….
Maybe you just feel the pressure? Living life in constant fear is exactly what ISIS wants. It appears it’s working on you. Sure, ISIS is the next jihad kings but I’ll tell you what. We can summon all the resources available to us and band together and eradicate them and you know what will happen next? A new group will take the throne. What we need now more than ever is love and education.