A student at Washington University removed nearly 3,000 flags placed to commemorate those killed during the Sept. 11 attacks.
A Washington University student removed nearly 3,000 flags Saturday from a campus display created to honor the deceased in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Fadel Alkilani, a member of the school’s student government, was recorded by a classmate placing the flags into trash bags. Alkilani had intended to leave the bags at Mudd Field, where the display was erected, but was interrupted when the fellow student began recording. After the video was shared to social media, Alkilani said in a statement that he wasn’t going to get rid of the flags, but instead, leave them on the field along with information “explaining the human cost of 9/11 in the past 20 years.” In the statement, Alkilani explained he moved the flags in protest because the display did not mention the Islamophobia in the U.
