Laura Ingraham about Silent Sam, protester at the UNC: Students are like ISIS.

Hundreds of students and community members gathered Monday night at the University of North Carolina to express their indignation after learning that the university was considering building a building. $ 5 million on campus to house Silent Sam, the statue of a Confederate soldier. The Chapel Hill campus which was demolished by protesters in August.

Chancellor of the University, Carol Folt, who had once expressed the wish to see the statue removed, explained that the purpose of the installation was to "contextualize" the statue and to respect a 2015 North Carolina law prohibiting any removal of the statue. . Protesters criticized the university's efforts to protect a statue they considered as rooting for white supremacism, and other critics accused the university of abandoning its responsibilities to its black students for bow to conservative donors.

No one was left behind by student-led activism, Fox News host Fox Internet host Laura Ingraham held the protesters to storm. his show Tuesday. "Look, every country, the whole history, has its bad sides and good sides," she said. "Good things, bad things. But this is reminiscent of the kind of destructive mentality of, say, ISIS. "

According to Ingraham, these protesters are "enemies of history", who are more closely related to a violent terrorist group known for its ethnic cleansing and others. war crimes only for its protesters human rights. "Think of ISIS, what they did," she said. "They looted and erased irreplaceable, historical and religious monuments. From Palmyra, remember Syria, simply because they could. It was offensive to them.

While protesters would argue that, unlike the Islamic State which, as part of its campaign for power in the region, targets places of worship and historical artefacts in order to assert its dominance cultural, they oppose the continued veneration of statues often constructed decades after the Civil War, during the Jim Crow period and civil rights, to strengthen the supremacy of whites and transform the image of Confederation as part of the myth movement "Lost Cause", Ingraham considers that both groups are simply trying to erase the story.

She is not the first to make this request. Corey Stewart, the far-right Republican candidate who lost to Tim Kaine in the Virginia Senate race in November, said in 2017 that anyone who wanted to destroy "artifacts from history" was " just like ISIS . "Ingraham and Stewart should console each other knowing that six other states have laws like that of North Carolina – which, with Alabama, passed its law after . Church of Charleston, South Carolina, which was shot down in response to the national reaction against the symbols of white supremacy – prohibiting the removal of monuments.