One of the posters, with “ISIS 4 LIFE,” scrawled across it, was found in the Rogers Communications Centre. A more offensive message, reading “FUCK MUSLIMS” appeared on a poster in Kerr Hall. On that poster, Ullah’s face was crossed out. Someone alerted Ullah to the posters after he arrived at school Friday morning.
“It’s sad and funny,” says Ullah, regarding the poster with the ISIS comments. “Someone actually went through the effort to do something like that, but then I was thinking, ‘what does this represent?’ It shows I’m affiliated with (ISIS, which is something) I’m completely against.”
Ullah, who is a second-year mechanical engineering student, is running for his position with the Transform RU party. While the events from last week did catch him off guard, Ullah says his views of the Ryerson community remain the same.
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Aaron graduated from the Ryerson School of Journalism in 2015.