Ahmadinejad Does Columbia. Time to Clean Up Academia's Augean Stables?

Much is being made of the efforts of Iran's chief secular Islamonazi, "President" Ahmadinejad, to pay his respects to the still-gaping hole in Manhattan formerly known as the World Trade Center. Holocaust Denier Ahmadinejad obviously wants to spend a moment in silent grief in honor of the roughly 3,000 innocent civilians slaughtered here due, as we all should know by now, to the Zionist pact between Great Satan George W. Bush and the crude pigs and monkeys currently inhabiting Occupied Palestine. Hizzoner, Mayor Bloomberg (Idiotarian-NY), was going to give Ahmadinejad a pass. New York's finest vetoed it. Latest word is that he will get a Secret Service escort to the site. Anyone asleep here?

Meanwhile, Columbia University's Idiotarian President Bollinger has invited Ahmadinejad to speak on campus where, last time I talked to someone in the know, at least a third of the students are Jewish and maybe more. For the past roughly 8 years, Columbia's students have been carefully insulated, of course, from the harmful views of George W. Bush, chief oil Nazi Dick Cheney, and fascist central planner Karl Rove by these same enlightened campus administrators. Good to know that in loco parentis, not to mention faultless moral and academic judgment, is still alive and well at Columbia.

Bollinger alleges that he'll question Ahmadinejad sharply on all the controversies he's enjoyed raising ever since being "democratically elected" to his office by an electorate that was first thoroughly purged of any voters (or candidates for that matter) who might cause him significant opposition. This is not atypical in sham democracies that use the trappings of democratic techniques to sandbag the electorate while instituting or perpetuating various flavors of fascist dictatorships. Ask Castro successor and Ahmadinejad bosom buddy Hugo Chavez how that works. Or Hamas for that matter. Anyhow, we have full confidence that Bollinger will badger the bejeebers out of Ahmadinejad. NOT.

Power Line's normally restrained Scott Johnson tries to put things in perspective in a piece he simply entitles "Columbia's Disgrace":

Columbia and President Bollinger are a disgrace. They welcome to their campus a man who is a ringleader in the seizure of American hostages, a terrorist, the president of a terrorist regime, and the representative of a regime responsible at present for the deaths of American soldiers on the field of battle. Columbia's prattle about free speech may be a tale told by an idiot, but it signifies something. And President Bollinger is a fool who is not excused from the dishonor he brings to his institution and his fellow citizens by the fact that he doesn't know what he is doing.

With regard to Scott's second sentence, BTW, there's always been some controversy concerning whether or not Ahmadinejad was one of the ringleaders in the 1979 hostage crisis where Saint Jimmy Carter's non-response encouraged Ayatollah Khomeini, his clerical fellow-thugs, and "student" Islamonazis like Ahmadinejad to commence setting the table for an eventual Armageddon. If you have any question about Ahmadinejad's early training, please examine this:


Check out the hirsute dude who's second from the right.

In a separate Power Line entry where this photo appears, Scott provides this caption:

"Without any doubt Ahmadinejad was one of the central players in the group that seized the embassy and held hostages."

--Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), page 615.

Now that we've set the table, let's cite Scott's initial comment on Columbia's latest disgrace. Except for the fact that it's the opening sentence in his blog entry on the subject, we think it's a heck of a good way to wrap this up. Let's put it in bold:

There is a suicidal mania that grips elite opinion in the United States. It is exemplified nowhere better than in our elite educational institutions.

It's time for those who believe in REAL academic freedom to band together and undertake a genuinely Herculean effort to clean out academia's Augean Stables. The leftist jihadists who've transformed America's once-great universities into 3rd-rate propaganda mills have got to go.