As The Washington Times reports, Muslim students on several campuses have protested the showing on-campus of the film American Sniper. Golly, do you suppose they oppose seeing a GI wasting one Arab after another, as dispassionately as swatting flies?
The popularity of American Sniper stems from the same roots as the popularity among Brits of the 1964 film Zulu, in which a small group of Redcoats do volley rifle fire and massacre several hundred brave charging Zulus. Eastwood's Dirty Harry Callahan wasting scumbag lowlife criminals with an oversized magnum revolver was popular too. The pleasure is atavistic, maybe not for the tender sensibilities of university folk.
