I’m not so concerned that Columbia University invited Holocaust-denier and Holocaust-advocate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak last week at a forum in the once-prestigious institution.
On the 1-to-10 bad-judgment scale of American academe, this wouldn’t even register a five.
Let’s face it: U.S. universities employ as full-time, tenured professors men and women with ideas and rhetoric every bit as dangerous, sick and twisted as what we heard come out of the mouth of the mystical little Hitler from Tehran. Fortunately, most of them don’t have nuclear weapons.
Of more concern to me was the reception he got from American students at Columbia.
If we’re to evaluate their reaction on the applause-o-meter, they liked Ahmadinejad. They liked him just fine. They really, really liked him. They liked what he had to say and they like what he stands for.
Now think about this.
Who is Ahmadinejad? What does he believe? What has he done?
He presides over a government that is a strategic ally of al-Qaida, the terrorist organization that attacked the U.S. Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 in the worst assault by foreigners on American soil in our history.
He pledges over and over to destroy the Jewish state of Israel and the U.S.
His government provides more direct assistance to terrorists than any other government in the world.
His government directs the largest terrorist organization in the world, Hezbollah.
Ahmadinejad himself has been a secretive operative for the Iranian regime dating back to the takeover of the U.S. Embassy through a period when he was suspected of personal involvement in foreign assassinations.
His government is currently killing U.S. troops in Iraq with proxy terrorists, bombs and weaponry.
His country is currently killing civilians in Iraq and undermining our efforts at bringing freedom and stability to that part of the world.
His country has been testing missile technology designed only to create massive electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks on targets that might very well include the United States – attacks that potentially could kill millions and reduce our nation to a second-rate power overnight.
His country keeps women in bondage.
And, as he explained himself to this audience at Columbia, his country does not permit homosexual behavior. I’ll leave it to your imagination to figure out how that policy is enforced.
This is the record that was applauded by students at Columbia University.
This is the kind of “diversity” they celebrate there.
This is who they admire – more than their own university president and certainly more than the president of the United States.
When I tell you that Americans are quickly losing their ability to discern right from wrong, this is what I mean.
That kind of discernment is being rapidly and systematically purged from their brains and their souls and their consciences by America’s own “educational system.”
You attend institutions like Columbia today not for “higher education,” but for advanced degrees in intellectual confusion, moral relativism and anti-Americanism.
This is what has me distressed about Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia.
I simply can’t get the sound of the spontaneous applause for this genocidal lunatic out of my mind.
I know political correctness is a form of insanity, but I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a better illustration of it than Ahmadinejad’s reception at Columbia.
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