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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

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foreignstudents; hashemi; muslimstudents; posted; repost; taliban; yale
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..........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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1 posted on 02/27/2006 12:06:27 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Further proof that we are not serious about the war.


2 posted on 02/27/2006 12:11:51 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Elle Bee

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.


3 posted on 02/27/2006 12:15:01 AM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: Old Sarge
...... 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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4 posted on 02/27/2006 12:15:56 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Roy Tucker
and it would make campus life easier on the eyes

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5 posted on 02/27/2006 12:17:40 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

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.


6 posted on 02/27/2006 12:17:59 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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To: dead

Thought you might "enjoy" this ping


7 posted on 02/27/2006 12:20:42 AM PST by kenth (Phil! Phil Connors! I thought that was you!)
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To: Elle Bee

A zinger!


8 posted on 02/27/2006 12:31:09 AM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: Elle Bee

Shocked but not surprised.


9 posted on 02/27/2006 12:32:09 AM PST by milemark (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: Elle Bee

bttt


10 posted on 02/27/2006 12:34:11 AM PST by The Flying Dutchman (Searching for Landfall...)
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To: Elle Bee

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


11 posted on 02/27/2006 12:35:06 AM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Roy Tucker
there are many more Hilldabeasts grazing on the quad

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12 posted on 02/27/2006 12:35:32 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee
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.

13 posted on 02/27/2006 12:38:21 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: coconutt2000

LOL.


14 posted on 02/27/2006 12:39:32 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: milemark
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?

15 posted on 02/27/2006 12:41:23 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

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.


16 posted on 02/27/2006 12:42:52 AM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: Roy Tucker
that would be very same Divinity School from which Al Gore washed out?
18 posted on 02/27/2006 12:47:38 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: coconutt2000

Heh.

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


19 posted on 02/27/2006 12:49:18 AM PST by kenth (Phil! Phil Connors! I thought that was you!)
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To: Elle Bee

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


20 posted on 02/27/2006 12:51:25 AM PST by nopardons
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