So dumb.

(NBC Washington) – The movie “American Sniper” will be screened at the University of Maryland after all — and the university is turning the controversy over the movie’s initial postponement into a “teachable moment.”

Last week, a planned screening of the movie was canceled after a Muslim student group expressed concerns that the film is anti-Muslim — and that the format of the event did not allow for enough discussion of the issues that the movie raises.

That cancellation drew controversy. “We were deluged by phone calls and messages from across the country, almost unanimously outraged by the cancellation or postponement,” said Maryland President Wallace D. Loh in a letter to students. “Members of our faculty, staff, students and alumni, as well as members of our state’s legislature, voiced their dismay with UMD’s abridgment of this constitutional right.

“Perhaps most disheartening, MSA’s Facebook page was filled with some of the most venomous, racist, and hateful messages imaginable,” Loh wrote in the letter, which was posted on the university’s website Tuesday.

Now, two student groups — College Republicans and College Democrats — are working together to screen the film Monday at 6 p.m. in Hoff Theater. They will also convene a panel discussion of the film afterward.