Posted on 09/19/2007 6:28:21 PM PDT by nuconvert
Tehran's Campus Crackdown
New York Post
Amir Taheri
As millions of Iranians prepare for the new school year, the scene is being set for what could be a long hot autumn on university campuses across the nation. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised to "cleanse" the Iranian educational system of what he calls "the corrupt influence of the infidel" and has mobilized a special militia to crush the expected student revolts.
The radical president refers to his "academic cleansing" plan as "The Second Great Islamic Cultural Revolution." The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini closed the universities and launched the first "Great Islamic Cultural Revolution" in 1980. A committee created to "cleanse" academia purged more than 6,000 professors and lecturers, virtually destroying Iranian academia. Dozens of academics were executed as hundreds fled into exile. The committee also expelled thousands of students on charges of monarchist or leftist tendencies. It also censored or totally rewrote dozens of textbooks to conform to the Khomeinist ideology.
When the universities were reopened two years later, the committee tried to fill them with students and teachers sympathetic to Khomeinism. The trick was to allocate special places for members of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and children of families believed to be loyal to the regime.
Further, it established a blacklist of banned authors and writings - an index that has grown every year since, reminding one of the worst days of the Inquisition in medieval Europe. The madness of censorship, supervised by the so-called Ministry of Islamic Orientation and Culture, reached a new peak last week with the banning of a new volume of memoirs of former President Hashemi Rafsanjai - who was a member of the original "cleansing" committee!
More than two decades of purges and "cultural cleansing" didn't prevent Iranian universities from becoming bastions of opposition
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"An unknown number of students have been arrested. In Tabriz, all seven members of the students union were picked up and taken to an unknown destination last month. The families of two of them claim that they may have died under torture. In Tehran, more than 150 student activists have been "disappeared" in recent weeks. "
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I hope all the Iranians who want to go to school and learn about life and whatnot are very, very thankful to our former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, for all he did installing a bunch of religious, anti-American freaks in power.
Thank you, Jimmy Carter. And all those who were tortured to death, beheaded, machine gunned in the back of their heads, or lined up a shot owe your a great deal.
You were quite a president.
Jimmah.
AHMADINEJAD IS HITLER. HE SHOULD BE TRIED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, SUPPORTING + SENDING TERRORISTS TO IRAQ, AND INCITING GENOCIDE AGAINST JEWS IN ISRAEL.
HE WILL BE SPEAKING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ON MONDAY. LIBERALS ARE INSANE.
“LIBERALS ARE INSANE.”
They’re also lacking in any sense of morality and decency, although they presume to be the most moral people on Earth.
Oh, yeah. The only difference this time is the beards.
What next from Amadinnerjacket, an Iranian Great Leap Forward?
“Thank God he won’t be going to Ground Zero.”
No, just Columbia University
If he can’t go to ground zero, maybe we can bring ground zero to him.
;~ )
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Lol, I ‘nuked’ him a few times in other threads today!
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Good stuff Phil!
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