Posted on 09/19/2011 2:04:37 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Columbia University students will dine with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday in what has become an annual debate on liberalism and terror.
University president Lee Bollinger made it clear he will not join the students, following an incorrect report in Fox News, which later issued a correction. Before Fox News corrected the report, the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) sent a warning letter to the university, stating that “Columbia's plan to host a banquet for visiting Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad runs afoul of U.S. anti-terror laws and will subject the university and its officials to both criminal prosecution and civil liability to victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism in Israel or elsewhere.”
The university stated, “At no time has there ever been any university event planned or considered involving the president of Iran, nor has there ever been any plan for a dinner involving the Iranian president and President Bollinger.”
Bollinger previously has termed Ahmadinejad a "petty and cruel dictator.”
The university’s Spectator reported that 15 students of the Columbia International Relations Council and Association were invited to a dinner with Ahmadinejad Wednesday. Three days later, Fox News incorrectly reported that Bollinger would be joining the students at the dinner. Members emphasize that the dinner itself is also still tentative.
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all it would take is just one guy to change the equation
Sounds like the student group will have the Ahmadinejad bash off campus so that Columbia can distance itself officially from the event.
Still, this is kind of like a meeting with Charles Manson.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
I hope they have baby back ribs.
College = ignorants!
Same Japanese dish that Bush 41 choked up,plus pretzels.
= studious ignorance
,,,,,, dining with the devil himself .
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
Whose 'left' ? Oh, that's right...Circa is; and Columbia ; where the 'Moral lights' of education are now, turned off.
Christians, Jews, homosexuals and women, yes, eager for a morsel of approval from Ahmadenijad, which they’ll earn by condemning anti-totalitarians/lovers-of-Democracy and American Patriots, and the bad Christians, Joooos! and women who refuse to join them in condemning the latter groups.
This cannot be said enough: I HATE that school.
Reminds me of when Fidel Castro came to NY and dined with special guests at Columbia, giving a four hour speech.
He and his ‘barbudos’ bodyguards stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem and were noted for building fires in their rooms to cook chickens.
He was being lionized by the left at the time as no one knew for sure that he was a Communist who would ally himself with Russia.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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How does one get an invitation to this dinner? There are plenty of people willing to go there and ‘talk’ with this asshat ................................ FRegards
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