Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? ~ John Fund

Opinion Journal ^ | February 27, 2006 | John Fund

[Elle Bee]

The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?

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

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.

[Elle Bee]

..........But he willingly and cheerfully served an evil regime in a manner that would have made Goebbels proud. That he was 22 at the time is little an excuse. There are many poor, bright students--American and foreign alike--who would jump at the opportunity to attend Yale. Why should Mr. Rahmatullah go to the line ahead of all of them? That's a question Yale alumni should ask when their alma mater comes looking for contributions.

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.

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[Old Sarge]

Further proof that we are not serious about the war.

[Roy Tucker]

All Yale women are now required to wear the Burqa in order not to offend Ramalamadingdong's cultural sensitivities.

I am sure they will not mind.

[Elle Bee]

...... and that the rest of the lame-stream media finds this less than noteworthy is telling

this is a great piece

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[Elle Bee]

and it would make campus life easier on the eyes

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[Old_Mil]

I can see the political ads now...

"The Republicans had 5 years to make the country more secure after 9/11. Instead, they turned over management of our ports to the United Arab Emirates, gave aid to the terrorist group Hamas, and issued a student visa to a Taliban leader."

Brought to you by the Committee for a Safe America.

[kenth]

Thought you might "enjoy" this ping

[Roy Tucker]

A zinger!

[milemark]

Shocked but not surprised.

[The Flying Dutchman]

bttt

[coconutt2000]

Let me know when he joins "Skull and Bones".

[Elle Bee]

there are many more Hilldabeasts grazing on the quad

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[Do not dub me shapka broham]

This revelation was apparently broken in the New York Slimes.

Evidently, educating illiterate, Koran-thumping Pashtouns who have relations with goats is a top-tier academic priority in a culturally sensitive, post-Summers administration.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

LOL.

[Elle Bee]

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.

.... and wasn't Larry Summers was a Clintonista?

[Roy Tucker]

I wonder if he's at the Divinity School. There must be some interesting exchanges in their seminars. I guess they had to hide all the Buddhist statues.

[Elle Bee]

that would be very same Divinity School from which Al Gore washed out?

[kenth]

Heh.

What can you do but laugh? If I didn't, my blood pressure would be even higher than normal.

[nopardons]

Yep, worked for him, even, in our government.