https://freerepublic.com/tag/richardbulliet/ en-us Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:49:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901296/posts Hitler's Muslim Nephew Comes to New York September 24, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.com Kenneth R. Timmerman What was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinking? Apparently the former Democrat believed that escorting Iran’s Hitler-wannabe president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the site of the September 11 memorial at Ground Zero would generate a terrific photo op. “Here I am with world leaders,” that type of thing. After all, Bloomberg has already made his appearance at the “World Leaders Forum” at Columbia University, so he was in the zone. And last year, U.S. News & World Report crowned him as one of America’s “best leaders.” But... FrontpageMag https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901296/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:49:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901325/posts Institutional memory is short, so just a flashback to the Qadhafi speech at Columbia. The sad thing is that while faculty fall all over themselves to bring repressive dictators to campus, many dissidents from the same countries are ignored. Columbia has never invited chief Libyan democracy activist Fathi El-Jahmi, for example (his mailing address for the last two and a half years would be Libya's state prison system). Likewise, Richard Bulliet, Columbia's point man to arrange giving a platform to Ahmadinejad, does not extend invitations to people like Mansour Osanlou, the head of the Islamic Republic's first independent trade union... National Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901325/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:01 GMT