Wafaa Bilal interviewed on RPI Censorship

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Run time: 08:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzb6lNLY98   Posted on YouTube: March 09, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 09, 2008 By DU Member: Manifestor_of_Light Views on DU: 265

 
Wafaa Bilal made a video game art exhibit called Virtual Jihadi. His exhibit was installed and then shut down at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, because it was thought to incite violence.

It was moved to a private art gallery, whereupon the city shut it down and told the gallery their front doors needed to be replaced. A Civil Rights Attorney has filed a FOIA request to get the correspondence within the city offices of Troy regarding shutting down the art gallery.

The President of the University, Shirley Ann Jackson, compared the exhibit to child pornography twice.

Also, the University shut down the entire Art Building and security guards refused to let faculty into the building.

There are several videos up at YouTube discussing this.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson twice brings up analogy of child porn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHI_TPEM4E&feature=related