At college campuses around the country, officials have stopped pretending that freedom of speech applies to critics of terrorism.

Last month, five CW Post Residence Hall Advisors from the Brookville Hall dorm were fired after posting a video in which they dressed up as Muslim terrorists and threatened to decapitate their hostage—a rubber duckie they named "Pete." The duck is Brookville Hall’s mascot.

Muslim leaders did not see the humor, and while they begrudgingly acknowledged the students’ right to freedom of speech, they said that right carried responsibilities.

"I think it’s not a prank," said Ghazi Khankan of Long Beach, a member of the American Muslim Alliance board.

We agree with Best of the Web’s James Taranto. Anything that involves a rubber duck named "Pete" is deadly serious in our book.

Everyone knows student RAs are expected to be sensitive to all groups, including Muslim terrorists.

The Little Green Footballs website pointed out that, at San Francisco State University, you can do whatever you’d like to the US flag or to Christian and Jewish religious symbols (burn them, deface them, submerge them in bodily fluids), but if you walk on paper copies of Hamas or Hezbollah flags, you will bear the brunt of the administration’s wrath.

Last October, SFSU’s brave College Republicans held an "anti-terrorism rally," and, to make their point, the demonstrators stomped on Hamas and Hezbollah flags. Despite the fact that both groups are recognized by the State Department as terrorists, members of the Students against War and the International Socialist Organization were immediately on hand to call the Republicans "racists."

A month later, the school’s Associated Students board passed a unanimous resolution denouncing the Republican group for "hateful religious intolerance" and "pre-meditated stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence."

In answer to a complaint filed with the school’s Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development, OSPLD director Joey Greenwell charged the Republicans with walking on "a banner with the word ‘Allah’ written in Arabic script." It turns out Allah’s name is incorporated into Hamas and Hezbollah flags. As a result, the club may be expelled from the campus.

SFSU spokeswoman Ellen Griffin said the university stands behind this process. "I don’t believe the complaint is about the desecration of the flag," she told Little Green Footballs. "I believe that the complaint is the desecration of Allah."

This adherence to Sharia law may spell trouble for Democratic Presidential candidate Sen Barack Obama (D-IL), who, according to his own promotional material, was, as a child, educated as a Muslim and later, formally converted to Christianity.

To radical Islamists, that makes Obama an apostate. According to the Islamists, he must either convert back to Islam or expect to receive death at the hands of any Muslim who is so inclined. Obama is the guy who wants to engage in friendly banter with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over issues such as blowing up the State of Israel. We think, considering the personal risk, Obama would be wise to reconsider his approach to Islamofascism..