[princess leah]

"Everything is relative" Yeah, until one of OUR RELATIVES are killed by muslim terrorists! We're FED UP with this relativism crap - it's time to take back our universities and rid the staff professors who promote this vile, evil bilge!

[dennisw]

Ivy leaguer Jehadi bump.

[PhilDragoo]

It is about time that this university, with so much potential to do good, took its head out of the sand

No. The sand is not where Harvard must take its head out of. . . .

[LurkedLongEnough]

Tal Ben-Shahar is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University ...

Still? ;-)

[colorado tanker]

Harvard perpetrated an obscenity, insulting the victims of terror and degrading the institution.

[Lennon]

You know the word JIHAD is very similar to the word CRUSADE. These are both words we used when we kicked the crap out of each other in 800 AD and 1200 AD and 1950 AD...the fact of the mater is that of course the word Jihad does not mean blowing up people in an office building, but in our mind it does. Much in the same way that Bush came out and said this was a Crusade against terror, it was retracted because Muslims equate that word to the Saxons’ murder of men, women and children. However, I think we can start equating the word Jihad with a internal moral struggle (as it is referred to in the Qur'an) when Muslims start equating Crusades with church evangelicals.

[Travis McGee]

When a muslim smiles at you, he is thinking about Danny Pearl.

[Valin]

Bump

[AnalogReigns]

This guy makes a lot of sense here. Unfortunately as an objectivist he is by definition an atheist--one reason he's probably been tolerated at Harvard.

Objectivism (or Randianism) dreamed up by Ayn Rand, says moral absolutes can be derived by Reason alone, which is seen as the ultimate absolute. Objectivist derision of any possibility of reality beyond our perceptions--i.e. the supernatural--allows for a rather stunted view of things, and a rather elitist view over the 95%+ of the world who are not atheist. Objectivism is almost always found at the fringe end of libertarianism.

Guys like this will throw the baby out with the bathwater--saying all religions, Christianity or Judaism notwithstanding, are irrational. Philosophically Objectivists are as Naturalistic as a Marxist--both are hard core Materialists.

[Constitutional Patriot]

It seems like all of our institutions of higher learning, especially the "elite" ivy league, have fallen under the control of cultural marxists. So many of our graduating college students leave these institutions having learned little more than left-wing ideology.

Does anyone know of a college or university that is not a left-wing cess pool? I would like to know so that someday I can send my future children to a place where they will learn something of value.

[Gritty]

The most consistent message that I have heard from professors and students is that everything is relative--reality is a personal, cultural construct, and therefore there is no way to distinguish between right and wrong, moral and immoral.

I think it's time to demolish this once great institution and start over again. It's obvious it is beyond redemption and there is no hope of a quarantine.

As long as there is no such thing as "right and wrong", nobody there should object!