US university president poses with 'suicide bomber'

[flowomo]

(from the Jersualem Post)

The president of one of the leading universities in the United States last week posed for photographs with a student dressed as a suicide bomber, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

In copies of photos obtained by the Post, University of Pennsylvania president Dr. Amy Gutmann is seen standing with engineering student Saad Saadi at the annual Halloween costume party held at the president's home.

Saadi is seen with a keffiyeh around his head, a toy Kalashnikov rifle in hand and six plastic sticks of dynamite strapped to his chest. Gutmann beams alongside him, dressed as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, a character from L. Frank Baum's novel The Wizard of Oz.... (more)


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[AIJ Alom]

1. Get over it. It's a costume. Tasteless but a costume. Same as if

someone dresses like a soldier (they kill people) or Osama Bin Laden or George W. Bush (who influence others to kill innocent people, collateral damage or not).

[originalpckelly]

2. We all know dressing as a suicide bomber makes you one...

Aren't Halloween costumes of scary things? Isn't a suicide bomber something scary? It is in bad taste, but it shouldn't be the subject of a new story.