Iran's Ahmadinejad Urges Purge of Liberal, Secular Academics

[democratic]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aVaNIdJJvcNU&refer=germany

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his government plans to purge liberal and secular faculty members from Iran's universities in a bid to revive the ideals of the Islamic Republic's heyday in the 1980s.

``Our academic system has been influenced for 150 years by secularism,'' the official Islamic Republic News Agency cited Ahmadinejad as telling a group of students today. ``We have started to make change happen but we need special support for it,'' he said. ``Students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities,'' the president said.

The Iranian government also ordered a raid to remove television satellite dishes from homes in Tehran, the capital, saying they threaten the nation's ``psychological security.'' The dishes, tolerated under Khatami, have mushroomed in the past decade. Music, news and talk programs by dissident Iranian channels based abroad are the most popular of the foreign broadcasts.

[wtmusic]

1. Y'know, Mahmoud is making himself very hard to like

maybe the "secular academics" in his uranium program will decide enough is enough...

[leveymg]

2. This article's been reposted several times in the last two days.

I agree that their President and "our" President are difficult to like.

They both seem to have graduated from the David Horowitz School:

"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," Horowitz's official organ FrontPageMag quoted him as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Horowitz complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 40 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060906/cm_huffpost/0...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. He and Lynne Cheney should go out for drinks. They have more

in common than first imagined.

[cracksquirrel]

4. I don't know about that...

He might have words for her about the hot lesbian love scene in that book she wrote. Also I'm pretty sure he isn't much into the drinking :P.

[bemildred]

5. He should talk things over with Bill Bennett.

Does Mahmoud like to gamble?