Yale: Taliban Yes; US Military No

Sierra Times ^ | 3/7/2006 | Jim Kouri, CPP

[FerdieMurphy]

Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Taliban, into a non-degree program, with a chance to gain full degree status by 2006.

Why is this terrorist walking around in our country, let alone being "educated" by Yale? Next he'll be telling authorities allah told him to drive an SUV into a group of students.

[satchmodog9]

I want to hear from the feds why this pud is in our country. Doublespeak.

[Rummyfan]

"I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."

If they'd have given me a vote, I know where he'd be!

[FerdieMurphy]

Firing squad!

[Rummyfan]

If Hashemi's voice were absent from University discourse, we would risk crippling our perception of today's world."

I forget... did Yale admit Goebbels after WW II? Or Tokyo Rose?

[2banana]

The war crimes of the Taliban are well documented.

Cutting off the fingers of women with nail polish. Allowing no girls to go to schools. Banning of music, kite flying, TV and indoor plumbing. Execution of women during soccer half time for getting raped (adultery). Large scale massacres in Mazar-e Sharif and the Hazeria. Destruction of the Buddhist Statues. Killing anyone (and their village) who converted. Forcing women to wear a head to toe burka. Not allowing women to go outside the house without an escort of a husband or brother. Honor killings. I could go on forever...

[Loud Mime]

...Not allowing women to go outside the house without an escort of a husband or brother. Honor killings. I could go on forever...

Unfortunately, their victims can't. The Taliban is evil. Period.

[dawn53]

On February 26, the New York Times Magazine reported that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Taliban, into a non-degree program, with a chance to gain full degree status by 2006.

The article states the guy only has a 4th grade education. So how do you earn go from 4th grade education to "full degree status" in less than a year?

I knew they had lowered their academic standards at Yale, but in this case, that would be an understatement.

[Russ_in_NC]

Don't worry everyone .... yale wants those federal $$$$ so yesterdays ruling is going to allow the Military on campus. Perhaps as soon as next week ... who knows. They could always appeal but who would they appeal to? Perhaps another liberal judge in the state.


I could just see that, the liberal judge rules for them on the grounds the SC just didn't understand the case and the SC fires back what part of the ruling didn't the lower court understand? This could go on for years .... but I don't think so. I think this liberal think tank, along with all the other liberal colleges, has been handed their heads in a basket. Money talks and if they want any federal money they are going to have to reverse their high and mighty positions.

[DoughtyOne]

The worst of it is that our tax dollars are helping to fund this guy via reduced fees or some such. It's disgusting to the max.

[tonycavanagh]

There may be a lot more to this story, we may even have a role assigned to Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi when he leaves Yale.

After all he was what was considered part of the Taliban intelligentsia.

When we leave Afghanistan we want to leave behind not only a stable country but one that is friendly and has links to the West.

[Truth29]

I wonder what a background investigation of Richard Shaw would reveal?

[God luvs America]

I guess the MSM was too busy b!tchin about the ports deal to cover this one....

[ConsentofGoverned]

"After all he was what was considered part of the Taliban intelligentsia.

When we leave Afghanistan we want to leave behind not only a stable country but one that is friendly and has links to the West."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...........
your statement reminds of the the guy who lived close to Grizzly bears in Alaska, and thought he was communicating with the beasts,,only to be eaten alive with his hapless girl friend as dessert. Idiots all

[IGOTMINE]

"In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world," Hashemi told the Times. "I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."

Hmmm. Both places DO have a reputation for mental torture...

[Brilliant]

Looks like they'll have no choice but to allow military recruiters on campus though. I'm betting it's just killing them.

[tonycavanagh]

re :your statement reminds of the the guy who lived close to Grizzly bears in Alaska, and thought he was communicating with the beasts.

I love the old home spun philosophy that people come out with when this disagree with you, but have no real idea how to challenge you.

Right stop talking bollox to me, read my profile then come back with a real challenge, or explain to me the following.

1) What do you think we are doing in Afghanistan.

2) What do you think are exit strategy is.

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3) What do you think we should be doing in Afghanistan.

4) What do you think are exit strategy should be.

Come on change my mind about you and impress me

[ConsentofGoverned]

Here' another boyo:

Never waste your time speaking to a fool. It only confuses the fool and lowers your own standards.

[Candor7]

"I suspect they're already mentally crippled on that [Yale] campus and having an official from the Taliban isn't going to change that mental infirmity," says a former Marine combat officer.">>>>>>>>>>

Yes, the world of education is suffering from the same ideological malaise. Witness Bennish in Colorado.

That military self protection from Islamofascism is wrong.

BTW, there were thousands in academe who felt the same about the Nazis prior to WWII, prominant men, like British Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, and Charles Limburg. They agreed with the rise of fascism as an exercise of popular freedom

They made the error of overlooking how a fascist movement defines the basic nature of a human being, just as the Yalies are doing now.

The Marine Officer is absolutely correct. And that mental crippledness is nothing new, and its solution is nothing new either.

Joseph Kennedy was wisked off the stage of history by a government that understood what genocide means to freedom.

Charles Limburgh was relegated to being a flight technical advisor on P-38's in the Pacific Theater, where he rotted in obscurity under protest, until the fabrication of his kidnapped son, a sordid footnote of parental homocide by a sick,neglected man.

And so shall Yale and Harvard go.

They are dead places now, with only a lingering aura of halycion days past, when the men and women who went there understood that thoughts are the basis for action, and in themselves are worth little if fundamental, self evident truths about human nature are absent in them.

It's as if the Pope had resigned and enthroned in his stead a piece of fulminating human manure, reputed to be from the body of Christ.

All external signs of truth ignored in some Utopian drastic hope of heaven in our times.

The days of academic dominace of Yale and Harvard are over. Those who value intellect over the diminishing status of their institutional degrees will seek growth and wisdom elsewhere.

[tonycavanagh]

re :Never waste your time speaking to a fool. It only confuses the fool and lowers your own standards.

LOL since you posted to me at first and then relied with another home spun philosophy you have no real idea about Afghanistan.

Maybe you should of obeyed that philosophy straight away and not wasted both our time, in pointless meaningless rubbish.