[lit-ideas] Yale for Taliban / Death for X-tian Convert
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:02:06 -0500
[Rod Serling Voice:] Held up for your examination:
Yale University recently gave a Taliban spokesman
a full scholarship, while back in Afghanistan, a
man who converted to Christianity faces the death
penalty.
(For those who haven't hit their irony threshold,
the Islamic judge deliberating on the death
penalty for Christian conversion said something to
the effect that, "Islam is a religion of peace, so
we will allow him to change his mind." And if he
doesn't, then they'll kill him, just to show how
peaceful.)
http://www.arbiteronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/20/441e20dae39b2
Yale chooses the Taliban over ROTC
BY JONATHAN SAWMILLER
March 20, 2006
<snip>
Last fall, while the American military that was
denied access to Yale and were off fighting the
Taliban in Afghanistan, Yale University was busy
celebrating the arrival of their newest student,
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Deputy
Foreign Secretary of the Taliban. He was admitted
into a non-degree program, with a chance to gain
full degree-seeking status in 2006. “In some ways
I’m the luckiest person in the world,” Hashemi
told the New York Times on February 26.
<snip>
Of course, it doesn’t matter that Hashemi only has
a fourth-grade education, never took the SATs and
is totally academically unfit to attend any
college, let alone an elite institution like Yale
which only accepts ten percent of applicants.
Why?
Apparently, Hashemi was too good of a catch for
Yale to let him get away. According to the New
York Times, Yale had “another foreigner of
Hashemi’s caliber apply for special-student
status.” Said former Dean of Admissions Richard
Shaw, “We lost him to Harvard. I don’t want that
to happen again.”
Who could that have been? One of Slobodan
Milosevich’s ethnic cleansers? Maybe a lieutenant
of Bin Laden’s? Perhaps a protégé of Idi Amin?
Shaw gushed that his admissions interview with
Hashemi “was one of the most interesting I’ve ever
had,” and told the Times, “This is a person to be
reckoned with and who could educate us about the
world.”
Isn’t that awesome? The spokesman for the Taliban
is here to educate America about how we need to
cut off the fingers of women who wear nail polish,
encourage husbands to beat their wives and
publicly torture and murder homosexuals, all with
the help and support of Yale University.
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http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/164194.php
Yale Taliban Praises bin Laden
Clinton Taylor at Townhall quoting Yale student
Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi in his former official
capacity as front-man for the Taliban:
"So for the Afghans, he is a good guy. If we
were to hand this good guy to the U.S., what kind
of justification will we give to our people?"
But maybe the Yale Taliban was just some low-level
operative who joined the ranks for personal promotion?
Apparently he had impressed the mullahs with
his footwork in America, because soon after he
returned, Mr. Rahmatullah went to work as a
personal adviser to Mullah Omar.....
When UPI’s Arnaud de Borchgrave interviewed
Mullah Omar in June 2001, Mr. Rahmatullah did all
the talking. Where Mullah Omar comes off as the
strong, silent type in the interview, Mr.
Rahmatullah emerges as the idea man, the big
picture guy, the strategist with both eyes open,
Mullah Omar having lost one of his fighting the
Soviets.
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MEANWHILE BACK IN AFGHANISTAN:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/03/international-brief-afghan-citizen.php
International brief ~ Afghan citizen faces death
penalty for converting to Christianity
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, an
Afghani man is on trial for criminal charges
punishable by death related to his conversion from
Islam to Christianity over 16 years ago while
working for a Christian aid organization in Pakistan.
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