Posted by Lee Russ Not surprisingly, this was also the view of Ahmadinejad himself. "In Iran, tradition requires that when we invite a speaker, we actually respect our students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment," he said. "We don't think it's necessary before the speech is even given to come in with a series of claims and to attempt in a so-called manner to provide vaccination of some sort to our students and our faculty." Give it a few days to percolate, then magnify that and multiply it by the thousands of Arabic, Indonesian, etc. newspapers that are not in English......
on 9/25/2007, 8:50 am, in reply to "Re: Wow, Was I Ever Wrong About Columbia U !!!"
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One small example Concerns resonated within Columbia's own academic staff, with Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies, describing Bollinger's comments as "very harsh".
"Inviting him (Ahmadinejad) and then turning around and alienating and insulting an entire nation whose representative this man happens to be is simply inappropriate," he was reported as saying.
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