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Crybullies cry almost as easily as they bully. Take the case of Nada Merghani, a Muslim “refugee” who was investigated by the Secret Service for alleged threats against Trump.

In August, just before Donald Trump was set to take the stage to speak at my university, UNC-Wilmington, a student posted on Facebook, “Y’all are not prepared for what I’m about to do.” The context of the quote made it seem like a threat so the Secret Service paid the student a visit. Readers shouldn’t let the use of the term “Y’all” fool them. This threat wasn’t issued by a redneck wanting to see the Donald dead. In fact, our UNCW rednecks love Donald Trump. The most frightening type of student imaginable made the post: A self-described “queer Muslim social justice warrior” (hereafter: SJW).

That’s Mike Adams writing about Nada. You’ll hear more about him in a moment.

“Expect to see me at the Trump rally on Tuesday. Y’all are not prepared for what I’m about to do,” read Merghani’s Facebook post, referring to the candidate’s Aug. 9 rally where he would make his controversial “Second Amendment people” remark.

“All I can say is pray I make it out of this alive.”

You can see why the Secret Service noticed. So Nada began demanding armed guards.

Because Merghani’s request for a security escort from the university was turned down, she hasn’t felt safe to attend classes, she told The Fix in a phone call Monday.

“Being who I am in the community, threats are just a given. Definitely did not expect conceal carry permits,” she said, referring to the threatening message made to the protesters.

On Aug. 19 Merghani and her ACLU advocate met with Vice Chancellor Patricia Leonard, Chief Diversity Officer Kent Guion, and Chief of Staff Bradley Ballou to speak about Merghani’s safety concerns as a black woman.

It didn’t go well.

“[T]he vice chancellor really lost her cool when the ACLU advocate made her aware she had white privilege,” Merghani told The Fix in a text shortly after the meeting last Friday.

Yes, few people react well to racist bigotry.

In a Monday email that Merghani provided to The Fix, Leonard said the university was unwilling to provide Merghani with a full-time campus police escort.

“[W]ith no specific direct threat to you personally by another individual, they do not see appropriate cause to approve your request for an armed escort to all classes,” Leonard said.

“I made a request for armed security to escort me from class to class which they denied because ‘it would make the university look bad’ if their only black, gay, muslim, refugee student was so targeted and unsafe she needed security to escort her from place to place,” Merghani wrote in a Facebook post Aug. 16.

“I literally cried for hours,” Merghani told The Fix via text message Monday. “

Merghani said she plans to sue the university, likely for “breach of university policy” and “emotional trauma,”

But now there’s a new emotional trauma on the horizon.

Mike Adams, a well-known conservative and professor of sociology and criminology, has been sharply criticized by faculty, student leaders and others, who say his September article on conservative web site The Daily Wire about 19-year-old Nada Merghani was out of bounds – an inappropriate way for a professor to treat a student. Merghani has since left UNCW and plans to enroll at UNC Charlotte in the spring.

As a result, two online petitions are focused on the professor – one calling for Adams to be fired (4,300 signatures), the other standing behind his First Amendment speech rights (200 signatures). A benefit concert dubbed “Hate-Free By the Sea” is planned for Dec. 18 at the Throne Theater in Wilmington.

That’s right. A benefit concert.

Hate-Free by the Sea: No Bigotry at UNCW! (For Nada Merghani),

ARTISTS:

See Gulls
Jon Lindsay
Temple5
Onward, Soldiers
Dark Water Rising
The Midatlantic
The Coastal Collective
the grand shell game
Matt Phillips and the Back Pocket

You say you’ve never heard of these awesome bands? Come on!

“Native Americans who piece together Southern rock full of gospel harmonies, hip-hop inflections and Motown soul with a journeyman work ethic. With bold songwriting and bewitching arrangements, DWR breaks rules effortlessly.”- Sylvia Pfeiffenberger, “Indy Week”

I hope the organizers will provide an armed escort in the form of a thousand handpicked Swiss Guards, a royal chariot and forty handmaidens to escort her to and from the concert, after which she will like literally cry and then angrily denounce/sue someone while the media writes sympathetic stories about her suffering.