On AhmadiNejad's visit to Columbia University

Although this American woman refers to herself as a "dumb blond" but she is quite the contrary and gives a good response to American liberals who have no clue about Iran and how their government (President Jimmy Carter) betrayed the progressive and modernizing government of Iran in 1979 when they along with other western powers gave full backing to the Islamists in line with a "greenbelt theory" ("belt of fundamentalist Islamic regimes") initially meant to halt Soviet expansion but also to keep these nations backward/poor and in so doing easier to "manage".

There is some slight profanity here and there but I can fully relate with this person as I know the frustration one can build up when dealing with thick liberals who shamelessly support the savage Islamic Republic occupying Iran.



My personal opinion on AhmadiNejad's visit to Columbia is that no terrorist leader should ever be given the opportunity to take advantage of the freedoms we take for granted especially when they themselves deny it to the people they rule over. AhmadiNejad used the podium given to him at Columbia to spew out his usual Islamist rhetoric and could not give a dime about any "insults" which where directed at him - in fact he used those "insults" to his own favour. The terrorist Islamic Republic has to be thrown out of the UN and its officials expelled/barred from entering free and civilized societies. Inviting him to a prestigious institution and insulting him is not going to help the Iranian people to rid themselves of these Islamists nor is it going to stop these madmen in their quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction. More importantly tough sanctions targeting institutions or front organizations of the Islamic Republic need to be imposed and direct financial/technological support given to the Iranian people to empower them and strengthen their resolve in their goal to overthrow this occupying Islamist regime.

Boycott the terrorist AhmadiNejad's speech at Columbia University!

Boycott Ahmadinejad

September 21, 2007
The Weekly Standard
William Kristol

Let the Iranian president (and the Columbia president) speak to a sea of empty seats.

A Columbia student asked how he could effectively protest his university's invitation to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak Monday. My first response was to suggest petitions, e-mails to President Bollinger and the university trustees, letters to the student paper, peaceful protest, and the like. All these are fine. But then I had a second thought. There might be one form of protest that would be effective both in showing appropriate disgust for the Iranian regime, and in shaming the Columbia administration: A total student boycott of Ahmadinejad's speech. Let the Iranian president (and the Columbia president) look out on, and speak to, a sea of empty seats on Monday.

The rationale for a student boycott is simple: The Iranian government is directly involved in killing and wounding American soldiers in Iraq. As a gesture of elementary solidarity with those serving our nation in the military--young men and women, many of them their exact contemporaries--Columbia students should refuse to dignify Ahmadinejad's talk by attending it. Needless to say, Columbia faculty and administrators shouldn't attend either. Some of them will. But this is a chance for the 9/11 generation to show a decency and a sense of honor that some of their elders lack. After all, this is not primarily about Ahmadinejad. Dealing with his regime is mostly a task for our government. This is about us. Columbia students have a chance to shame their elders, redeem the good name of their institution, and make many Americans proud. I urge them to take it.