Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? ~ John Fund

Opinion Journal ^ | February 27, 2006 | John Fund

[Elle Bee]

The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?

Monday, February 27, 2006 12:01 a.m.

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.

[Elle Bee]

..........But he willingly and cheerfully served an evil regime in a manner that would have made Goebbels proud. That he was 22 at the time is little an excuse. There are many poor, bright students--American and foreign alike--who would jump at the opportunity to attend Yale. Why should Mr. Rahmatullah go to the line ahead of all of them? That's a question Yale alumni should ask when their alma mater comes looking for contributions.

President Bush, who already has a well-known disdain for Yale elitism from his student days there, may also have some questions. In the wake of his being blindsided by his own administration over the Dubai port deal, he should be interested in finding out exactly who at the State Department approved Mr. Rahmatullah's application for a student visa.

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[Old Sarge]

Further proof that we are not serious about the war.

[Roy Tucker]

All Yale women are now required to wear the Burqa in order not to offend Ramalamadingdong's cultural sensitivities.

I am sure they will not mind.

[Elle Bee]

...... and that the rest of the lame-stream media finds this less than noteworthy is telling

this is a great piece

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[Elle Bee]

and it would make campus life easier on the eyes

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[Old_Mil]

I can see the political ads now...

"The Republicans had 5 years to make the country more secure after 9/11. Instead, they turned over management of our ports to the United Arab Emirates, gave aid to the terrorist group Hamas, and issued a student visa to a Taliban leader."

Brought to you by the Committee for a Safe America.

[kenth]

Thought you might "enjoy" this ping

[Roy Tucker]

A zinger!

[milemark]

Shocked but not surprised.

[The Flying Dutchman]

bttt

[coconutt2000]

Let me know when he joins "Skull and Bones".

[Elle Bee]

there are many more Hilldabeasts grazing on the quad

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[Do not dub me shapka broham]

This revelation was apparently broken in the New York Slimes.

Evidently, educating illiterate, Koran-thumping Pashtouns who have relations with goats is a top-tier academic priority in a culturally sensitive, post-Summers administration.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

LOL.

[Elle Bee]

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.

.... and wasn't Larry Summers was a Clintonista?

[Roy Tucker]

I wonder if he's at the Divinity School. There must be some interesting exchanges in their seminars. I guess they had to hide all the Buddhist statues.

[Elle Bee]

that would be very same Divinity School from which Al Gore washed out?

[kenth]

Heh.

What can you do but laugh? If I didn't, my blood pressure would be even higher than normal.

[nopardons]

Yep, worked for him, even, in our government.

[Elle Bee]

Hard to believe this university's law school turned out the smartest women in the world (the Hilldabeast)

......... "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."

"...........After the fall of the Taliban, he resumed a friendship he had developed with Mike Hoover, a CBS News cameraman who, according to a 2001 Associated Press story, had visited Afghanistan three times as a guest of the Taliban. Mr. Hoover inspired Mr. Rahmatullah to think about going to the U.S. to finish his studies. "I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher," said Mr. Hoover. He persuaded Bob Schuster, an attorney friend of his from Wyoming who had gone to Yale, to help out. As the Times reported, "Schuster called the provost's office to ask how an ex-Taliban envoy with a fourth-grade education and a high-school equivalency degree might go about applying to one of the world's top universities."

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[Cindy]

Repost and adding a date for clarification purposes:

ON THE NET...

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22Sayed+Rahmatullah+Hashemi%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22Hashemi%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d


stepping back in time to 2001...

http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15042001/art28.htm

"Taleban point of view
Why we destroy statues? - ii"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi, the roving Ambassador of Afghanistan, gave a talk at the University of Southern California on 10 March which was reproduced in the previous issue. A session of questions and answers followed the talk. Following are excerpts:"

[Paulus]

How many Americans are more than qualified than this GED'd cave man? And why do they not get first opportunity ? Makes me wonder if being an American, in America, really matters anymore? Ya know, I feel like we have been sold out. (Sorry for the rant)

[Iris7]

You guys are too hard on this Ramahtullah fellow. I mean, just because he is a murderous thug who truly loves his calling, another would be Hermann Goering, Himmler, or, more exactly, a wannabe Julius Streicher or Ernst Roehm doesn't mean we should criticize the lad?

He is only another happy go lucky mass murderer, heck! The boy next door!

Dang, could be I am not engaging in hyperbole with this "boy next door" stuff. Liberal neighborhoods are really strange. Klebold and Harris (the Columbine pair) had liberal parents and lived in a liberal neighborhood. Hmm.

[Roy Tucker]

Maybe Al wasn't strident enough.

[Mila]

"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future."

Oh pleeese, tell me this is a joke!

[Cindy]

ping

[hershey]

Words fail.

[Notwithstanding]

They tend to send letters like this out all the time to applicants. Here is one from their database (translated from the jaberwocky that hides the real message the school sends to any applicant that they discern is conservative) that in this case actually applies!

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Dear Religious Right-wing Extremist:

You are a nutjob. Your beleifs are not compatible with higher education. You favor a theocracy. You have nothing to contribute to this campus. Pound sand. Why on earth did you even apply?

Sincerely,

Yale

[Paulus]

Nothing agianst the GED. I recieved a private email saying,

"There is nothing wrong with a GED (General Education Diploma), it is admirable that people choose to learn something and go back to college, albeit you normally enroll in a junior college once you earn a GED."

I can only agree and I apologize for any misunderstandings.

[Paulus]

"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future."

I bet he gets an A++++++

[sit-rep]

This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far.

I'd like to know who allowed him into the country...It was not the school.

[sit-rep]

I can see the political ads now...

Happened did'nt it??

[M. Thatcher]

1)this doesn't affect our security at all.

2)what difference does it make? there are all kinds of similar foreigners already attending our colleges

3)all you knee-jerk critics are simply anti-Arab bigots

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

Here's what happens when one of his dates ends badly:

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Al washed out of Vanderbilt... Daddy couldn't swing Yale.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Not after Al's poor showing as an undergrad at Harvard.

[Elle Bee]

"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future." Oh pleeese, tell me this is a joke!

if only it weren't true makes you wonder what he's going to do with his education

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[Cvengr]

Well,..at least he's a well qualified terrorist. /sarcasmm off

[Semper Paratus]

Love to see him explain to the Yale 'Gay-Lesbian Alliance' why bulldozing walls on homosexuals was a good idea.

[madprof98]

The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?

Of course. He is just a student. He should instead be made a faculty member, perhaps even a dean.

[Gritty]

Mr. Rahmatullah should feel right at home in Yale.

[Buffettfan]

Political correctness rules the day once again. This sick obsession with diversity and multiculturalism will be our downfall. Ever college seat taken up by a foreigner is one college seat denied a native born American kid. It's time to stop this madness of willfull participating in our own demise.

[Codeograph]

...Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa

How in the hell did he get a visa ? I thought we were cracking down on that.

[bert]

Well at least he isn't going to Harvard. He will now be strongly left leaning rether than falling of the far left cliff.

[aposiopetic]

Your thoughts concerning your now wayward alma mater?

[Congressman Billybob]

This is amazing, appalling, but not out of character for my "wayward alma mater." I have long since given up in disgust over what Yale has become. Though it is true that Harvard is slightly worst. And Princeton was the joint that hired that academic fraud, Cornel West, when Harvard decided he was worthless.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Which, Being Believed, Was, Whether It Was or Not"

[SuziQ]

So Harvard and Yale are competing for the student terrorist population, now? Interesting that he was recruited by Yale, even though he only has his GED. I wonder how many American homeschooled students with just a GED were admitted to Yale this year? Could it be that, being homeschooled, and likely religious, they would be considered 'not suitable' by Yale?

[pabianice]

Yale is one of the country's leading anti-Semitic sewers. It's a perfect fit.

[Inwoodian]

My son was a National Merit finalist with 1500 on the SAT's and didn't even get "wait-listed" at Yale. In retrospect I'm glad he didn't go there with all their lefty crap but he still should have been admitted before this Taliban terrorist.