by SABRINA M. PARKER

The mystery surrounding anti-Muslim flyers posted at George Washington University last week was solved when seven students confessed to the University Police Department last Wednesday.

The students, who are members of the GW Campus Anti-War Network, said that they created and posted the hateful flyers to call attention to the type of racism that the upcoming Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week supports. They misused the name of the student organization that sponsored the week on the flyer, which led many people on campus to think that the Young Americas Foundation created the flyers.

“We regret that some people were unable to discern the intent of these posters and took offense,” the students wrote in a letter to the GW community.

The anti-war group includes a Muslim student and an Iraq War veteran.

“We hope that the students who take offense to this and hear the call to action will do something to protest Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. It is our great dismay that the student body and the media missed the clear, if subtle, message of our flyer: the hyperbolic nature of the flyer was aimed at exposing Islamophobic racism.”

Not only did many GW students and media miss the network’s point, the international media picked up on their antics. Reportedly, Pakistani newspaper The Daily Times even printed a blurb about the hate flyers going up on campus.

A student interviewed by the GW student newspaper said that regardless of their intention, the flyers were still hurtful.

The University Police Department has ended the investigation and the students will go through the campus judicial process.

“Any violations of university policies that occurred in connection with this incident will be handled through the Student Judicial Services process, without regard to the political views or affiliations of anyone found to be involved,” George Washington University President Steven Knapp said in a statement released last week. “I can assure you that this process will be conducted in a fair and thorough manner.”