Posted on 01/08/2008 10:10:05 AM PST by camerakid400
NEW YORK (MNA) – An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.
Since the incident, the deans and professors from the faculties of history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger’s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.
A member of the delegation, who requested anonymity, said the main goal of the visit is to meet the Iranian president and officially apologize to him.
“The delegation has also prepared its itinerary,” he noted.
He went on to say that the delegation also plans to visit Iranian universities in various cities and to hold talks with professors and students, and may even sign memoranda of understanding with some universities. He also said the delegation is interested in visiting seminaries and the shrine city of Qom.
However, Bollinger has warned the delegation that their trip to Iran should be a private visit and should not be undertaken as an official visit endorsed by the university.
Bollinger has so far refused to meet the Mehr News Agency correspondent to explain his disrespectful behavior toward Ahmadinejad when introducing him to the students and professors at Columbia.
Barf Alert!
“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”
And I’m in academia.
they need to get moving if they expect to visit Iammadjohn while he is still in office.
Sure. If this were real they would list names of some in the delegation.
Please let this be satire.
If I were to ever pass by Columbia University, I will fart in its general direction.
Maybe they’ll use their visit as an opportunity to witness the foot and hand amputations being carried out as punishment for violation of Islamic law. Maybe they’ll implement them at Columbia for students who don’t display the proper ‘sensitivity’...
Give them one-way tickets
Ah, the dhimmi patrol strikes again. Well done, academia!
“An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.”
Why stop there? Why don’t you live there for a year and see what a utopian haven it is for anyone other than a Muslim?
No, its from an Iranian news agency.
Don't allow them back here.
If it takes a MANPAD.
‘A member of the delegation, who requested anonymity....’
This is a blogger moment, folks, right up there with the outting of Dan Rather’s forged documents in 04.
We need to OUT THESE PEOPLE. Names, pictures, titles.
The usual suspects. Presumably the Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Studies department is otherwise occupied. Still, I'll believe it when I see it.
Coward.
He, as well as the rest of the delegation, know that what they are doing is tantamount to treason, and the response from Americans would be up-close, personal and overwhelmingly negative.
Doesn't the US have "no-travel" countries to which travel is forbidden? What happened to that?
If nothing else, their passports should all be lifted, assuming, of course, that they're not traveling on a foreign (muslim) passport...
There are, and have always been, restrictions on travel which borders on sedition and treason.
Thank god. I thought it might be true.
I thought even the far left had a wake up moment when this nutjob said there were no gays in Iran?
Even Arabs couldn’t make this up. It’s just too insane.
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