Posted on 09/05/2006 7:41:00 AM PDT by js1138
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported in another step back to 1980s-style radicalism.
"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.
Ahmadinejad complained that changes in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the country's educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years, but said "such a change has begun."
Earlier this year, Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers. And last November, Ahmadinejad's administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country's oldest university in Tehran amid protests by students over the appointment.
The developments followed a campaign promise by Ahmadinejad for a more Islamic-oriented country. He took office last August.
Since then, Ahmadinejad also has been replacing pragmatic veterans in the government with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hardliners.
Ahmadinejad's aim appears to be to install a new generation of rulers who will revive the fundamentalist goals pursued in the 1980s under the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.
In the early 1980s, shortly after the revolution, Iran sacked hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and students.
Yes, it's a JOKE!
BTTT
I wonder is the lefties will now give him the attention he is due, now that he has attacked them in their home bases, rather than celebrate his ability to screw up the Bush agenda as a proxy....
OMG! Ahmadinejad has finally done something that the Democrats will find extreme.
"campaign promise by Ahmadinejad for a more Islamic-oriented country."
Now, that's a joke, right?
I understand that it's a joke but I truely believe the mideast needs liberalism. Nothing takes the fight out of a population faster than liberalism.
I'll chip in for Ward Churchill's plane ticket.
< cricket chirps >
So Universities will now be offering courses like terrorism 101, bomb-making for beginners, Hate America 101, etc.
In this context, Iranian liberals and American liberals are opposites.
You are assuming that RATS are consistent, intellectually honest, and have a sense of reason, and shame.
All classes other than "Islamic Studies" will be eliminated.
Hate America 101 and so forth ... sounds like Duke University!
Ahmadinejad is actually calling for the firing of conservative teachers.
Yeah, throw them Ward Churchill's out!
The Mullahs are as conservative as you get!
But this does not get in the way of the Liberal culture's desire to destroy Bush. They will align with anyone who can further this goal, hence their apparent alignment with the hezbolla "freedom fighters".
Not really unusual. Conservatives have aligned with trash to achieve political goals in the same fashion in the past and present..
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