WTF? The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student.

[elehhhhna]

Anyone see a problem with that?

Monday, February 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far.

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.

"In some ways," Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008020

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. The burning question:

Are burkas new for spring fashions in New Haven?

[elehhhhna]

2. sorry, dupe thread. Please go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x528520

[zanne]

3. I'm having another "Twilight Zone moment"...

I've been having alot of these for the past six years. I'm speechless.

[fasttense]

4. This writer from the Wall Street Journal is an idiot.

"President Bush, who already has a well-known disdain for Yale elitism from his student days there, may also have some questions. In the wake of his being blindsided by his own administration over the Dubai port deal, he should be interested in finding out exactly who at the State Department approved Mr. Rahmatullah's application for a student visa."

Like bush* gives a sh*t. Yeah right he was blindsided. Like he was blindsided when he he read the report Coni gave him on Bin Laden determined to attack the US then considered it historical or background information. Bush* has too many ties to the terrorist who killed 4,000 people on 9/11 to care if one more of his rich Arab friends infiltrates the US.

[electron_blue]

5. Welll, I think it's great Harvard's Summers is gone. Look deeper into that

problem - he is largely a major RW'er spouting racist & sexist remarks left and right.

About Yale, this does sound odd.

[emulatorloo]

6. Please - don't litter DU with John Fund's Pieces from the WSJ

Their news division is top notch.

Thier opinion pages are full of deranged wingnuts. John Fund is only slightly more in check than Ann Coulter.

[LaurenG]

7. Homeland Insecurity... *shakes head* nt

[NNN0LHI]

8. No mention about Sayed meeting with the US State Department and...

...and Colin Powell right before 9/11. Wonder why Fund doesn't mention that? The US was playing footsie with this guy just like they were with bin Laden. How shocking.

Don

[emulatorloo]

9. Do a search on John Fund on Media Matters - he is a liar and a repug tool

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=John+Fund

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