Video: Ghent University’s unusual promo
posted at 9:54 pm on March 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Using footage of 9/11 to recruit students is all kinds of weird and inappropriate, but I’ll give them this — it certainly got my attention. The reader who sent it thinks the message is pro-terrorist. I disagree. The point they’re making in their own creepy, exploitative way is about opening oneself to new possibilities through education. Directed at Belgian teenagers it’s cynical and outrageousness, but directed at Arab teenagers it wouldn’t be half bad.
This comes from Brussels Journal so I’m going to send them some traffic by making you click over there to find out what the subtitles say.
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*Scratching head*
- The Cat
MirCat on March 9, 2007 at 10:06 PM
I think they are arguing that rigidity of thought is what caused 9/11. The inability to question your own indoctrination.
And I agree also that its not message appropriate. A target audience of Belgium youth (though some undoubtly are muslim) isnt the best audience for this message.
But there has been some Jihadist workings in Europe and belgium and if this counters pro jihadist messages in belgium then it does do some good.
William Amos on March 9, 2007 at 10:10 PM
And I think that the plane missing the towers was meant to show that if some jihadist HAD challenged his teachings then tragety would have been adverted
William Amos on March 9, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Tacky, void of even a modicum of consideration for an entire country much less personally affected victims of a horrid crime, and not at all appropriate for a state-owned University no matter who it is directed at.
SilverStar830 on March 9, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Huh??
Viper1 on March 9, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Durka durka jihad?
lorien1973 on March 9, 2007 at 10:25 PM
Would we be where we are today if only one plane had hit the WTC and the other aborted?
csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 10:25 PM
There were 2 other planes. If anything, the single tower would be a more vivid reminder, I’d think. That they are just gone now, the pentagon repaired, there isn’t much for people to look at and say, damn.
lorien1973 on March 9, 2007 at 10:28 PM
1500 dead civillians instead of 3000 ? ?
LakeRuins on March 9, 2007 at 10:38 PM
What if the terrorists of 9/11 had been stopped before they borded the planes?
Would we be here today if “Able Danger”s report wasn’t stopped by the wall put up by Jamie Garilick, under Janet Renot, by direction of Bill Clinton, then destroyed by Sandy Berger?
PinkyBigglesworth on March 9, 2007 at 10:38 PM
OI. It’s all about the fact that you knew I mean you KNEW what was going to happen, but it did not. That’s what they were trying to get across.
Don’t accept conventional knowledge and all that.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 9, 2007 at 10:41 PM
I agree with my fellow posters. Yes, a little inappropriate footage use, but I think the point was that if he had actually questioned, he could have made the better choice.
amerpundit on March 9, 2007 at 10:41 PM
But why use the WTC? There are a thousand different ways to illustrate that point.
The WTC topic must mean something.
I’m not trying to give the message credibility, I’m just trying to make sense of what the message is. …..Would we still had gone into Afganistan and then Iraq, if the other plane had aborted his mission? Would the pool of candidates for these kinds of suicide missions have second thoughts because of the failure?
I statred with the thought “Hey, he didn’t do it.” and then asked why and what would be our reaction to it. It definately would have to be factored into our opinion about Muslims because the Muslims would surely had pointed it out.
csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Just watched “World Trade Center” this evening.
Amazing to think that only five and a half years after the attacks, some feel free to use the footage from that day as a recruitment tool. The message of the advertisement may be harmless, but that doesn’t make the use of these images any less offensive.
Slublog on March 9, 2007 at 11:07 PM
Good comment thread at the Brussels Journal link, apparently all Europeans aren’t antiAmerican, contrary to popular belief. Also cracked me up to see a “moonbat” reference over there.
B Moe on March 9, 2007 at 11:08 PM
That was disturbing. Is the point that they’re trying to make: Ghent grads don’t engage in fanaticism? The 9/11 crew wouldn’t have slaughtered so many innocent lives if they had gone to dear old Ghent?
Anyway, good for you for throwing some blog sugar at BJ, that is an excellent site for following the death of sanity in Europe.
billy on March 9, 2007 at 11:24 PM
I’m justing waiting for a truthers to start posting this video all over YouTube as DEFINITIVE proof that 911 was an inside job.
Joshua P. Allem on March 9, 2007 at 11:26 PM
scratch the a
Joshua P. Allem on March 9, 2007 at 11:27 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice if Ghent also showed a very large emotional Muslim mob demonstrating angrily in a large city. Then, the camera zooms in to read the signs the angry mob is holding which say, Stop the suicide bombings now!!. Now, that would be thinking different, but it is only wishful thinking.
Texas Mike on March 9, 2007 at 11:34 PM
The weirdest “outside of the box thinking” encouragement I’ve ever encountered…
Precious!
Entelechy on March 9, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Damn, AP,….hell, this made me scratch my head, for sure! Now I’m itching all over. I’m also waiting for the video of Bush killing the Lindburg baby.
james hooker on March 9, 2007 at 11:52 PM
I for one will not click on the link to give them “some traffic.” And I hope others will also do the same.
Capitalist Infidel on March 10, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Just wonder if the university of Ghent did this or did they find some moonbat who did some creative editing to suggest that some grand conspiracy did happen ?
The true danger of the internet is that disinformation and lies propagate more than the truth.
William Amos on March 10, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Belgians are some of the strangest people on the earth. Seriously.
Jen the Neocon on March 10, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Yeah, Jen, but their waffles are great!
csdeven on March 10, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Capitalist Infidel on March 10, 2007 at 12:20 AM
What do you have against BJ? It, along with EU Referendrum, and !No Parasan! (link on the right) are great sources for European news outside of the MSM filters.
billy on March 10, 2007 at 12:44 AM
It’s called shock. (and yes it’s tasteless)
- The Cat
MirCat on March 10, 2007 at 1:32 AM
Where would we be today if the entire world really DID unite to fight Islamofascist Jihadis, hunt them down, and eradicate them from the face of the earth, rather than play mind games and decide to accuse the US of being the worst influence on planet earth, and rather than doing everything they can to help destroy the US?
William
William2006 on March 10, 2007 at 2:42 AM
It’s repugnant to have anyone try to command my thinking. “Dare to think”: I think it was presumptuous of you to speak to me as if you regard me as unthinking. “Think something else than what you are thinking”: I think it was presumptuous of you to speak to me as if you regard me as unthinking.
Kralizec on March 10, 2007 at 3:19 AM
Europe… sigh.
Zorro on March 10, 2007 at 7:31 AM
Jeeze. I guess a body can’t make a mistake by thinking the worst of some people.
csdeven on March 10, 2007 at 8:21 AM
That may go down as the most important question in history, William.
Connie on March 10, 2007 at 9:08 AM
You’re missing out, then. It’s not a Brussels newspaper, it’s a blog full of European news without the “Europe as utopia” slant the media likes to provide.
Slublog on March 10, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Was there a ‘holy sh*t!’ in the background? Sure sounded like it to me.
nukemhill on March 10, 2007 at 1:43 PM
Yes, yes there was.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 10, 2007 at 9:59 PM
It wasn’t terrorism avoided at the last moment. It was a moral decision to not emit a large carbon footprint.
laelaps on March 11, 2007 at 12:57 AM
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