10News in San Diego reports that Protest Calls SDSU Paper 'Racist':
Two dozen San Diego State University Muslim and Asian students seized several thousand copies of the student-run newspaper The Daily Aztec in a protest over political cartoons, it was reported Friday.Omar must be "cognitively challenged" - the camels were labeled as Saddam and the baby wipe billionaire, no "Middle Easterners" were labeled as anything.
The protesters piled the newspapers in front of the student center Thursday in an area known as the Free Speech Steps and taped some to the ground to spell out the word "racist," the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The students were upset over two political cartoons published in The Daily Aztec, the newspaper reported.
One cartoon, published Sept. 25, depicted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as camels with President George W. Bush in the middle, thinking, "Definitely time for a regime change."
The second cartoon ran Oct. 22 and showed an overweight man labeled China speaking in broken English in reaction to the North Korea Nuclear Program, the newspaper reported.
The two cartoons generated several letters and demands for apologies, the newspaper reported.
"It makes my blood boil to hear someone label Middle Easterners camels," Omar Behnawa, president of the Muslim Students Association and one of the protest organizers, told the Union-Tribune.
And mighty cute camels they were too, eh Omar?
