A publication criticizing Charlie Kerk causes a university job in America

Two days after the killing of the American right -wing influencer, Charlie Kerk, the employee at the University of Paul State, Indiana, Susan Surors, woke up to find her phone full of unwilling calls, and the audio messages issued by unknown numbers.

These messages were full of threats and insults, as they were threatened with expulsion from her work, and Surors said: “She insulted me in various words, and threatened me to be expelled from my job .. The words were so severe and harshly unimaginable.

The problem that Sawors was referring to is a post on the social networking site «Facebook», in which she said: “If you believe that Charlie Kirk is a wonderful person, we cannot be friends.”

Threat

According to what she explained, followers of her took a picture of the post and they shared it without her knowledge, then those harsh words against them spread on social media, where the “Lips Tech Talk” account, known as the dismissal campaigns against schools, hospitals and public libraries, spread what Surins wrote on the “X” website.

Surors received the first threat message just 19 minutes after the publication of the post, and comments and responses continued from prominent personalities, such as the American businessman and billionaire, Elon Musk, in addition to the former Governor of New York City, Rudi Gilliani, as well as the Prosecutor of the state of Indiana, Todd Royikita, who described her comments as “evil”, and indicated that she might question anyone’s ability to occupy a leadership position, and in Later on, an audio message was published that includes the title of Suwors’s house, with threats that he might lead to facing Kirk himself.

The worst moments

After that, Sawires decided to contact the police, especially after some people started publishing details about her place of residence, which made her feel a real threat to her life, and after seeing her post more than 6.9 million followers, Surors was greatly affected psychologically and physically, where she said: “I felt as if I was in the worst moments of my life, and that was one of the most difficult days that I went through.” I feel I should vomit. ”

Sudden

Then the sudden news came, after only five days of the incident, Sawors was separated from her work at the university, to become part of a group of employees who were separated due to similar leaflets criticizing Kirk, and the public prosecutor of Indiana has supported the university’s decision, and said in a post on «X»: “The judicial analysis of what the University of Paul State has done 100%”, pointing out that educational institutions must pay attention to what happened in the University of Paul State. ”

Freedom of expression

The controversy over the chapter of Sawiris from the university, raised serious questions about the limits of freedom of expression in Indiana in particular, and in the United States in general, a government electronic portal known as “eyes on education”, aimed at enabling parents, has been created complaints about “inappropriate materials” in schools.

Later, this concept expanded to include all public universities, with unknown complaints against professors or employees, after a law was passed aimed at facing liberal bias in higher education.

The University of Paul State has its own electronic portal, “Ethix Point”, where students can report the behavior of the biased professors without revealing their identity, and Surors was the first employee at the university to be targeted in this framework, but a few days later, 32 employees were dismissed in the same context.

Anxiety

This incident sparked anxiety among university professors in Indiana, who started to feel increasingly pressure due to the unknown complaints that began to increase against them, and a professor of philosophy at Paul State University, Sarah Faytal, said: “In light of the prevailing atmosphere at the university, other professors began to feel fear for their jobs of any criticism that they might be exposed to, to the point that they avoid signing the signature A petition calls for the non -separation of Sawirrs, ”added Faytal, who is the secretary of the American Association of University Professors concerned with defending university employees:“ People are really afraid of their jobs. ”Although a number of university professors expressed their opposition to the decision to separate Sawires, the number that signed the petition did not exceed 83 people out of 3000 academic employees at the university, Viteal distributed the petition to them, where he was Many of them feel afraid of mentioning their names, while some of them were satisfied with mentioning their first name, and others said that they will not object unless others agreed in their section on that, in contrast, the university support campaign for the decision to separate the Surors received great support on social media platforms, as it won a tweet on the “X” site 25 thousand likes, which shows the great contrast in popular reactions.

Hate speech

In the midst of this controversy, the explicit comment came from the university president, Charlie Mandzara, who said that the expulsion decisions were aimed at combating hate speech and limiting incitement to political violence.

Despite the criticisms of the university’s decision, Mandzara indicated that most university circles saw that such publications encourage political violence, something that must be confronted firmly, considering that the university made the correct decision to expel Sowes.

Controversy

The incident of the dismissal of the employee Susan Surors, from the University of Paul State in Indiana, raised many questions about freedom of expression in the academic environment in the United States, and led to the enhancement of the controversy whether universities and workplaces should interfere in controlling personal employees’ views on social media. On the New York Times

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accusation

US President Donald Trump accused the “Radical Left” speech of contributing to the assassination of his ally, Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead during a university event in Utah, last month, considering that Kirk was “a martyr of truth and freedom.”

Trump said, in a video clip of his network, “Truth Social”, that “years ago, and the radical left is similar to great Americans, such as Charlie, with Nazis and the worst criminals and collective murderers in the world, and this type of speech is directly responsible for the terrorism that we are witnessing today in our country, and this matter must stop immediately.” Al -Shan’i, and in any other political violence, including the organizations that funded and support them. ”

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Protest

Paul State University organized a protest in an expression of anger and condemnation after the killing of the right -wing influence, Charlie Kerk, where about 100 male and female students gathered in one of the major halls on the campus, and a few participants raised small banners on which “I am Charlie”, as an expression of their solidarity with the victim, and their position against political violence.

A number of members of the University Republicans Club, who were working on drafting a joint statement with their colleagues from the University Democrats Club, participated in the event, but the drafting of the statement faced some differences, especially on whether it should include support for freedom of expression in addition to condemning political violence, and after extensive discussions, the two parties ultimately reached a unified agreement that combines the two positions.

During the stand, the President of the University Republicans Club, Charlie Mandzara, went up to the rhetoric platform at a confident pace, and delivered a touching speech in which he said:

“I do not feel at this moment except anger, legitimate anger, not towards those who disagree with them in opinion or partisan affiliation, but rather towards the hypocrites and liars who see that exceeding a certain limit of intellectual difference justifies death.” He added in an angry tone: “People who incite or justify political violence, they themselves who raise their voices, claiming that those who disagree with them are the opinion They deserve condemnation, this hypocrisy is what we must face. ”

Mandzara continued: “We, as governors, are not forced to bear inflammatory calls calling for our killing, and we are not obligated to allow those who justify this violence to control us, whether through the positions of power, in educational institutions or any field of society.”

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Controversy in academic circles

The decision to separate the employee, Susan Surors, from the American University of “Paul State”, sparked widespread controversy, especially in the academic circles, where a number of professors expressed their opposition to this measure, among them the professor of economics at the University of Indiana, Professor Michael Hicks, known for his conservative inclinations, and HEX said that he was subjected to a sudden collapse during a lecture he gave the day after the killing of the right -wing influence, Charlie Kirk, the first time that such a situation has occurred in him in 35 years of teaching, describing that moment as being shocking to his students, as some of them likened her to the events of September 11, given its deep emotional impact on their generation.

Hicks explained that this moment should have been invested to teach students about the first amendment to the American constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression, and about the importance of respecting this right, especially when facing feelings of anger and the desire to take revenge, before it evolved into actions that contradict the values ​​of freedom and democracy, and HEX criticized the hasty reactions that followed the incident, saying: “We have chosen to surrender to the desires of those who only seek to see people They are expelled from their jobs. ”He added,“ We ​​have lacked courage to defend freedom of expression, even with those we disagree with strongly. ”

• Susan Surors said in a post on Facebook: “If you think Charlie Kerk is a wonderful person, we cannot be friends.”

• The President of the University of Paul State affirmed that the expulsion decisions from the university aim to combat hate speech and reduce incitement to political violence.