Anti-Islam message written in chalk on University of Michigan's Diag

The Detroit Free Press reports:

"Stop Islam," "Build the Wall," "Stop the Rape of Europe," and "Trump 2016" were written in chalk Wednesday on a central plaza on campus at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, causing concern at the university and a debate over free speech.

Some Muslim students felt the university should have cleaned up the hateful messages on the Diag, but a university spokesman said Thursday that it allows messages to be written in chalk on campus plazas. When the university didn't respond to their requests to remove the chalk on the Diag, a group of students washed away the bigoted remarks, but left the Trump messages because it didn't want to infringe on political speech.

"We specifically made it a point to not remove the chalk that was simply pro-Trump (even though we do not agree with his hateful ideas)," said university student Rami Ebrahim. "We wanted to ensure that we weren't infringing on anybody's political free speech."

Rick Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the University of Michigan, said in a statement on Wednesday: "Someone used chalk to write a #stopislam message on the main square in the heart of our campus known as the Diag. Attacks directed toward any member or group within the University of Michigan community, based on a belief or characteristic, are inconsistent with our values of respect, civility and equality."

A university has someone who doesn't like Muslims. Shocking.