Posted on 09/20/2007 8:45:58 AM PDT by kellynla
TWO DAYS AGO, Columbia University announced that next Monday, September 24, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia. According to the university statement, "This opportunity for faculty and students to engage the President of Iran came about after Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee at the Iranian Mission to the United Nations initiated contact with Columbia through a member of the faculty, Richard Bulliet, who is a specialist on Iran."
So at the request of the Iranian government, Columbia University will host the president of a terrorist regime which is right now responsible for the deaths of American soldiers on the field of battle. Indeed, this distinguished guest, who is so honoring Columbia by his presence, will be introduced by no one less than the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger.
But not to worry: "President Bollinger will introduce the event by challenging President Ahmadinejad on a number of his controversial statements and his government's policies." Indeed, Bollinger manfully proclaimed in the university statement: "I also wanted to be sure the Iranians understood that I would myself introduce the event with a series of sharp challenges to the President on issues including:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
NO surprise at Columbia doing this.
I’m much more interested in what might happen if Imindamood4jihad goes down to Ground Zero.
Let them know how you feel:
Amanda Murphy
Alumni Relations Director
am2629@columbia.edu
954-240-4865
Julia Feldberg
Alumni Relations Associate
Speaker Series Contact
jef2121@columbia.edu
Kristen Kramer
Alumni Relations Associate
kek2121@columbia.edu
Emily Lampert
Alumni Relations Junior Associate
ebl2108@columbia.edu
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
212-678-3050 TC* 3050
I would expect this of Columbia, the commie school of journalism.
DON'T TASER ME, BRO!...................
Liberals are traitors.
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
What’s what the Arabic means?
Ugh, Bill Kristol is yet another in a long list of dumb white guys [so many on this site included] that pay attention to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is nobody.
He has zero power in Iran. He is simply a mouthpiece of the clerics who run the country. He does not say anything that they do not tell him to say. He does not do anything that they do not tell him to do.
He is nobody. A former blacksmith for crying out loud.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a rabbit that you are chasing.
Ugh...so many of us being played like violins.
Columbia should be stripped of all it’s accreditations, permits, and licenses.
Columbia should be stripped of all it’s accreditations, permits, and licenses.
All it produces are menaces to society.
What will be your apologia when Akhmadinejad announces the wreath he places at ground zero is for the hijackers?
...The Constitutional definition of Treason....
I don’t understand your backhanded support of his being heard at the university.
I hope our government refuses to provide security for him if he deviates from his approved itinerary.
I hope that none of the cops have to "protect" this little runt of an evil litter from harm. May he spew his hatred and lies so that all can hear.
Keep him in New York with all the smart, sophisticated people.....and away from Texas. The first time a muzzie pulls sh#t in Texas, I can pretty much bet the farm on each and every mosque being the site of an open pit barbecue.
The same “enlightened” institution that allowed Jim Gilchrest (Minutemen) to be shouted down, and not permitted to speak.
Grow up dummy. I am not concerned about the subject of this post. Go after Columbia or dont, I dont care.
You wanna chase rabbits while the real threat works behind the scenes and unmolested by the media, go ahead.
YOU are the exact type of person that the Iranian clerics are trying to poke & prod.
And they are succeeding, easily.
I doubt logic will prevail.
I'll assume you are correct in your analysis and he is just the mouthpiece. It would still make him the most important contact to those you claim are running Iran. Thus, making him far more important than just a nobody. At a bare minimum, he is the face of Iran, our enemy.
Try engaging your brain in the future before making an ass out of yourself.
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