Watch: College Student Removes American Flags From Site of 9/11 Memorial
A student from Washington University was found removing American flags from a September 11 memorial. Student Union Vice President of Finance Fadel Alkilani was caught on camera carrying the flags in bags. Young…
A student from Washington University was found removing American flags from a September 11 memorial.
Student Union Vice President of Finance Fadel Alkilani was caught on camera carrying the flags in bags. Young America’s Foundation posted the video on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1436780448865206287
The College Republicans planted the 2,977 flags as part of their memorial honoring all of the victims who lost their lives on that day 20 years ago.
Alkilani said in a statement, “The misinformation that is currently circulating on YAF’s page states that I was ‘stealing’ the flags. This is due to a WashU College Republicans member, taking a video of me collecting flags in plastic bags. However, I had no intention of removing the flags from the Mudd Field area, and my full protest did not have the chance to be actualized.”
He continued, “My planned protest was to place the bags of flags on Mudd field, along with various statistics (including those below) explaining the human cost of 9/11 in the past 20 years.”
Alkilani also noted in his statement, “Since 9/11, Islamophobic hate crimes have been higher than they ever were before. The United States invaded countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, and over 900,000 people have been killed because of the wars the United States has propagated.”