John Fund updates us on Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Taliban spokesman now Yale undergrad, in the Opinion Journal:
Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last month Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard; today Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi will speak by video to a conference at Columbia University that his regime is cosponsoring. (Columbia won't answer questions about how much funding it got from Libya or what implied strings were attached.) Then there's Yale, which for three weeks has refused to make any comment or defense beyond a vague 144-word statement about its decision to admit Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi--a former ambassador-at-large of the murderous Afghan Taliban--as a special student.The three backers of the foundation that, along with Yale, is subsidizing Mr. Hashemi's tuition have told the Yale Daily News that they are withdrawing their support. But the university remains mute and paralyzed. "The intelligentsia haven't told Yalies what to think yet, because even they haven't made up their minds," says Yale professor David Gelernter. He clearly has: He calls the Taliban "an evil and macabre terrorist group. . . . The fact that Hashemi didn't do actual killing does not absolve him. Goebbels didn't shoot anyone either."...
Given his record as a Taliban apologist, Mr. Hashemi has told friends he is stunned Yale didn't look more closely into his curriculum vitae. "I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay," he told the New York Times. So how did he end up in the Ivy League? Questions start at the State Department's door. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee's border security panel, has asked the State Department and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to explain exactly how Mr. Hashemi got an F-1 student visa. Yale's decision tree is clearer. Richard Shaw, Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions until he took the same post at Stanford last year, told the New York Times that Yale had another foreigner of Mr. Hashemi's caliber apply but "we lost him to Harvard" and "I didn't want that to happen again." Mr. Shaw won't return phone calls now, but emails he's exchanged with others offer insights into his thinking...
Read it all.
Btw, more about Doudou Diene (I posted another comment in which I wondered which religious background the guy has, he's Sengalese and ~94% of the population of Senegal is muslim):
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=5898
GENEVA, March 22 (AFP) - A United Nations human rights official Monday criticised new French legislation banning religious headscarves in schools, saying the rule could foster discrimination against Muslims.
"The dominant perception ... is that behind the general ban on religious signs in state schools, it is Islam that is being targeted," said Doudou Diene, a special UN rapporteur on racism and xenophia.
The French parliament has passed a law to come into effect in September prohibiting conspicuous religious symbols in the classroom, including Islamic headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses.
A report by Diene on the situation of Muslims around the world was submitted Monday
to the UN Human Rights Commissioner.
"The stigmatisation of Islam, at least in public debate, contains ... a serious risk of fostering and giving legitimacy to hatred of Islam and discrimination against Muslims," he said.
He also claimed that the Muslim question was treated in other European Union member states, which he did not identify, with more tolerance than in France, and recommended that defence of the secular principle in state institutions — a jealously guarded principle of the French state — should be accompanied by strong support for cultural and religious diversity and measures against discrimination.
French Education Minister Luc Ferry defended the new French rule before the UN rights panel here last week, saying the strict application of the secular principle in French state institutions was not directed against religion in general or against any one religion in particular.
The new French legislation has been attacked by civil rights groups and Muslims around the world, as well as by the Roman Catholic Church.
"we lost him (another terrorist?) to Harvard" and "I didn't want that to happen again."
...but Oh My (lack of Diety!), if he had been a professed Christian...
More about that here.
Who was it that went to Harvard?
Yale is dumbass central anyway. Rivaling Harvard in unbridled stupidity. The Bush and Clinton families have proved that. Not mention several thousand other delusionals who frequently grace our TV screens.
So, they got their Token Taliban. Who cares? At least we're finally getting some leadership from the vaunted Yale. I demand to know why he hasn't been admitted to the Skull & Crossbones secret society. He'd fit right in. George could meet him there in the dark of the night and they could rub lamps and chant hadiths and cool supersecret stuff like that.
"Yale is dumbass central anyway."
I disagree, Alarmed Pig Farmer.
... they could rub lamps...
Better not - they might spark each other off.
"Yale is dumbass central anyway." I disagree, Alarmed Pig Farmer.
You disagree based on what, Daisytoo? Based on the fact that these people score extraordinarily well at tests rewarding fraudulent knowledge and flawed logic? To paraphrase the great and weepy liberal Tom Hanks, stupid is as stupid does.
Certainly you don't disagree based on the quality of results Yale has delivered to the U.S. economy. We've been looking at an unending parade of wrongitude from Yalies for years. Don't misunderstand me, they've got some serious competition from the other so-called prestige factories both in the Ivy League and other "select" American universities.
I'm not talking politics here. I'm talking demonstrable incompetence at one's craft. Yale is packed with thousand of fresh-faced rosey cheeked hopeful young dumbasses, being taught by the same but without so much hope.
Remember, the MSM looks to the intellectual frauds at hate factories like Yale for their misguidance and firepower. Hopefully, enough brainpower remains in the hallowed halls of the Pentagon and the military academies to keep an eye on this cultural collapse. A collape that is a disaster similar to having hundreds of major bridges all crumbling into the water on the same day from structural engineering flaws based on techincal guesswork and economic fraud.
In any true economy, political or economic, there must always be either a reward or penalty for productivity.
Why doesn't Yale have any Taliban women? Because they are all at home, uneducated, beaten up. Yale should be educating some Taliban women.
Yale should be shut down by the New Haven Health Department. Running a garbage house threatens the health of others, what with all the excrement and rats and other vermin.
'Something is very wrong at our elite universities.'
The way I look at things, the guy should have 3 choices:
1. He could wear cement shoes and walk the bottom of the ocean.
2. He could be hiding out with the Taliban in Pakistan in a cave.
3. He could be in Gitmo studying the Koran.
He is in Yale and that is wrong.
Too much choice or insanity of western 'liberal' nuts?
It seems to me that Yale University is guilty of the crime of harboring a fugitive from the law. As I recall, Taliban, of which this man was an official was he not, and its murderous thugs massacred hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, or am I dreaming?
The federal government and numerous human rights across the globe in all seriousness probably have a genuine legal case with which to throw the book at Yale. Yet, I see absolutely NOTHING HAPPENING....
Is there anyone out there with a brain??
Anyone at all???
Hey, pig farmer, I suggest you check out the YDN on a regular basis before you make some of your summary judgements. I submit you'll find more divergence of opinion (i.e., REAL "diversity") on campus than on most state university campuses. And BTW, the Yale College Council, the local student union, is considering taking an official position on this issue.....and recommending that the jihadi bastard not be offered regular admission.
"Why doesn't Yale have any Taliban women? Because they are all at home, uneducated, beaten up. Yale should be educating some Taliban women."
moderationist
Now that is a great idea!