FBI Shows Up, RPI Suspends Wafaa Bilal's "The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi"

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FBI Shows Up, RPI Suspends Wafaa Bilal's "The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi"

Mon, 03/10/2008 - 13:26 — rob

TimesUnion.com is reporting that RPI has suspended the showing of Wafaa Bilals "The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi"

"The move capped a chain of events -- including claims the FBI was
eyeing the artist -- that began last month when the College Republicans
blasted the arts department as "a terrorist safe haven."

The
work that provoked that attack is Wafaa Bilal's "Virtual Jihadi." It's
the latest piece by a Chicago-based video artist who is testing the
limits of academic freedom in a time of war at a Troy school that
receives millions in Pentagon research funding."

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FBI Shows Up, RPI Suspends Wafaa Bilal's "The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi"