posted on March 5, 2006 01:05:19 PM new
And yet the libs want to ban Dubai from port management? Doesnt make sense to me..
Radical Islamist Given Student Visa - Now at Yale
Written by Warner Todd Huston
Saturday, March 04, 2006
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has found an interesting story. Apparently, a radical Islamofascist has been given a student visa to "study" at Yale University. Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban government in Afghanistan and a man who toured the country to promote Islamofascism and anti-American propaganda, was issued a student visa by the State Department.
Fund wrote in his Opinion Journal Online (go here): "Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far."
I wrote in 2003(go here) about how absurd this student visa program has become, and this story just drives my point home even better.
Mr. Ratmullah said: "In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." And who could argue with this logic? It probably isn't necessary that he end up in Guantanamo, held as an enemy combatant, but he certainly should not have ended up as a student, freely roaming a country that the people he gladly and energetically represented wanted to destroy.
So, while we are making a university education more and more out of reach for American students, we are throwing the doors of our universities wide open to foreigners who have been known to advocate for the destruction of our way of life. Of course, there are foreign students deserving of a fine education in the USA, but can't we at least offer that opportunity to those who don't want to destroy our country? If we are so worried about terrorism, why allow people with known terrorist sentiment to get student visas?
The U.S. Department of State has been a rogue agency long enough, one not concerned with the safety and philosophy of the United States of America. Repeatedly we are faced with the fact that the U.S. Department of State is more interested in being a "citizen of the world" than being an advocate for America. The last American president who had any control over Foggy Bottom was FDR, but he is also the one who sent it careening off into the direction--or misdirection--it has taken.
Jihadi Turns Bulldog
The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?
Monday, February 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far.
Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
"In some ways," Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.
Many foreign readers of the Times will no doubt snicker at the revelation that naive Yale administrators scrambled to admit Mr. Rahmatullah. The Times reported that Yale "had another foreigner of Rahmatullah's caliber apply for special-student status." Richard Shaw, Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions, told the Times that "we lost him to Harvard," and "I didn't want that to happen again."
