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Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? ~ John Fund
Opinion Journal ^ | February 27, 2006 | John Fund

Posted on 02/27/2006 12:06:23 AM PST by Elle Bee

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

Of course. He is just a student. He should instead be made a faculty member, perhaps even a dean.

41 posted on 02/27/2006 5:32:34 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Elle Bee

Mr. Rahmatullah should feel right at home in Yale.


42 posted on 02/27/2006 5:44:35 AM PST by Gritty (It is telling is how swiftly the developed world has internalized an Islamic perspective-Mark Steyn)
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To: Elle Bee

Political correctness rules the day once again. This sick obsession with diversity and multiculturalism will be our downfall. Ever college seat taken up by a foreigner is one college seat denied a native born American kid. It's time to stop this madness of willfull participating in our own demise.


43 posted on 02/27/2006 5:48:52 AM PST by Buffettfan
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To: Elle Bee
...Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa

How in the hell did he get a visa ? I thought we were cracking down on that.

44 posted on 02/27/2006 5:49:37 AM PST by Codeograph
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To: Elle Bee

Well at least he isn't going to Harvard. He will now be strongly left leaning rether than falling of the far left cliff.


45 posted on 02/27/2006 5:51:58 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Your thoughts concerning your now wayward alma mater?


46 posted on 02/27/2006 5:54:11 AM PST by aposiopetic
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To: aposiopetic
This is amazing, appalling, but not out of character for my "wayward alma mater." I have long since given up in disgust over what Yale has become. Though it is true that Harvard is slightly worst. And Princeton was the joint that hired that academic fraud, Cornel West, when Harvard decided he was worthless.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Which, Being Believed, Was, Whether It Was or Not"

47 posted on 02/27/2006 6:07:36 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (Please visit www.ArmorforCongress.com now, while you're thinking about it.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

So Harvard and Yale are competing for the student terrorist population, now? Interesting that he was recruited by Yale, even though he only has his GED. I wonder how many American homeschooled students with just a GED were admitted to Yale this year? Could it be that, being homeschooled, and likely religious, they would be considered 'not suitable' by Yale?


48 posted on 02/27/2006 6:23:41 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Elle Bee

Yale is one of the country's leading anti-Semitic sewers. It's a perfect fit.


49 posted on 02/27/2006 7:49:45 AM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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To: Elle Bee

My son was a National Merit finalist with 1500 on the SAT's and didn't even get "wait-listed" at Yale. In retrospect I'm glad he didn't go there with all their lefty crap but he still should have been admitted before this Taliban terrorist.


50 posted on 02/27/2006 7:57:20 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: Elle Bee
I don't get this.

A few years ago (before 9/11), one of my friends met this idiot while he was doing some kind of "tour" across the country giving speeches and doing "Q&A" segments.

He TOLD them, he had almost no real education, and didn't have much of a background or learning in anything (math, science, even islam itself).

The one thing my friends remember the most from meeting him.....was his own ignorancy and screw up of basic facts with his own religion (this guy was the one idiot member of the taliban who was "rusty" on his own religion and its practises).

He made a fool of himself across the country, how the hell did he get into, and now manage to stay and pass, in Yale?

I think he is semi-literate.

51 posted on 02/27/2006 3:06:13 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Elle Bee

Why do I think that Yale hasn't also brought over a student who had some limbs chopped off by the Taliban?


52 posted on 02/27/2006 3:12:44 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Inwoodian

I wouldn't really call this guy a terrorist, just a terrorist enabler.


53 posted on 02/27/2006 3:17:54 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Mila
"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future."

Oh pleeese, tell me this is a joke!

Not hard to see how he's managed to rack up a 3.33 grade point average, despite his 4th grade pre-college education. Not only is he taking courses on subjects he's already an expert in, but when you're an expert in stuff like the how-to of terrorism, even the dim-witted leftist profs that teach garbage like this aren't stupid enough to give you a bad grade. I mean the profs have no trouble "justifying" the actions of terrorists when they blow other people up, or chop off their limbs, which was more the Taliban's style, but they have no intention of getting blown up or getting limbs chopped off themselves.

54 posted on 02/27/2006 3:24:10 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Bump


55 posted on 02/27/2006 7:12:27 PM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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