30 Replies to “Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi”

  1. When I went to university there were many arab students they never take the basket weaving artsy courses.
    Chemistry and physics
    ie the background you need to make WMD.
    but give ourselves a pat on the back as we make a fatal mistake but who cares as long as we promote diversity.

  3. I’m not going to fault Yale over this, what else would you expect. But what the hell was the U.S. government thinking when it gave this creep a visa?

  4. I too am surprised that he isn’t in Gitmo.
    Does Homeland Security even know about this?
    What in hell is wrong with US authorities in letting him into the country and not arresting him??

  5. “In some ways,” Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.”
    Let’s see, that swine is embraced while ROTC is vilified……and Ward Churchill still has his teaching post.
    When are the alumni and decent tuition paying parents/students going to shut their wallets to this travesty playing out on our campuses? When are decent people going to rise up and take some action?
    Tenure keeps these America hating faculties entrenched for life across this nation. Like the jihadist, leftist academics abuse our liberties protected by unions and tenure to destroy us.

  6. Having had the pleasure of experiencing US immigration, thanks to having given up my dual birthright once (Never again!!), I think you can safely say that if they gave him a visa, it’s purely because they discovered he was relatively harmless.
    I’d almost rather a swabbing than go through US Immigration again. They actually have a pretty good idea of how to do their jobs. I don’t think they miss a beat when it comes to guys like this.

  7. Give me a break, Dr. Wright. Those comments are unbelieveable!
    They shouldn’t let Hashemi into Yale, but for the love of God, how can you say such outrageous things? Comments like that give conservatives a bad name.

  9. Another way of looking at it is that maybe, just maybe, American re-education of Islamists is the American “trojan horse”.

  10. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer?
    Dante seems incensed by Dr Wright stating the obvious and the thing that many of us wonder. He has had the courage to put keystrokes to those thoughts. Right or wrong, thank you Dr.Wright.
    I believe Kate hosts this forum for exactly such a purpose, freedom of speech and unveiling of the truth.
    When the unthinkable happenned on Sept 11, many of us in the western democracies lost our “innocence” that day, if we ever had any. Prior to Sept 11, who among us would have believed a suicide pact with years of planning, training and execution by 20 educated, intelligent men.
    We have a right to question actions and motives of those who come to live among us. Hashemi may have made some kind of a declaration renouncing his past. Does that mean he has? We just don’t really know. The thing we do know is that there is an enemy out there who is still sworn to destroy us. On another thread earlier I quoted from John F Kennedy’s innaugural address. Permit me a couple more lines:
    “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnfkennedyinaugural.htm
    Yes, I believe that we have the right and duty, in so much as the law and constitution permit that we question the intents and motives of many who have come to the shores of North America and wish to abide here under the freedoms we enjoy.
    Many of us wonder how many more are there living among us that are now planning the next 9/11 attack. Let us continue to be dilligent and ask the hard questions from time to time. MSM wakeup call!
    Daniel

  11. Another way of looking at it is that maybe, just maybe, American re-education of Islamists is the American “trojan horse”.
    …..Or he’s the Islamofascist’s trojan horse?
    “Maybe”……..”just maybe” isn’t going to cut it!
    Review again the background on the 9/11 terrorists. Some of the bastards went to school here.
    You really think this once-a-Taliban creep is going to parlay his Yale experience into being the next Islamic MLK? I’ve got beachfront property to sell you in Arizona.
    The problem is common decency and sense. There wasn’t some 9/11 victim’s kid that Yale could have awarded that slot to?
    I think you can safely say that if they gave him a visa, it’s purely because they discovered he was relatively harmless.
    I would feel safer already, if it wasn’t widely reported that Immigration mailed a visa renewal notice to Mohammed Atta posthumously six months after 9/11.

  12. If any one is under any illususion at all about what the radical Islamists want, I invite them to go to this home page and take a tour. Do a search keying in the words, oh let’s say, “Destroy the west”. View the results and if you are still tolerant of these people then you are nothing more than a stupid fool and you deserve whatever you get. But even if you are a fool at least be an informed fool, try to watch as much as you can stomach.
    http://www.memritv.org/default.asp

  14. He seems like a complete wanker to me but if Yale wants to waste their time on this guy then that’s their problem not any of ours. I’m mostly suprised that someone like him is roaming free.
    Yale’s going to pay a price for this, their reputation is going to take a well deserved hammering. In the end they might be the ones doing the learning.

  15. Sorry doug but most informed Canadians have known that the Canadian Health Care System has been imploding for the last fifteen years. Acute bed shortages, too long waits for cancer therapy, my dad died waiting and I’m not the only one.
    The problem is a lack of accountability. Today we have the Tainted Blood Trials. Twenty years after the fact. Most of the seriously ill people who contracted HIV are dead and buried.
    Extrapolating from American statistics we can assume that ten thousand Canadians die each year in hospitals, needlessly from negligence and ineptitude. When was the last time you heard of someone in a hospital being charged with criminal negligence causing death? Not going to happen. Do you want a better heath care system? My advice is to move somewhere else. France, Germany, most places in Europe have decent systems. We have health care rationing, which sucks, but as long as the pro-union forces are calling the shots, that’s the reality. Bummer.

  16. What’s really amazing is how comfortable the guy seems. I guess he is well-schooled in “western tolerance” [read: suckerdom]. You’d think a guy representing a regime which guested OBL who is responsbile for 3,000 deaths alone on American soil, would be a bit uneasy. You could call it Chutzpah, but he might be a bit offended.
    What a kick in the face for a conscientious hardworking student without the means to attend Yale.

  17. Penny writes: Tenure keeps these America hating faculties entrenched for life across this nation.
    I’m not sure that I agree. While the tenure system has certainly been abused, it is not at the heart of the problems of the contemporary university. As often as not, it has protected honest, hard-working, and patriotic academics from the friends of Ward Churchill who occupy administrative offices. Far more of a problem than tenure has been the incompetence and lack of spine of university administrators who sign on to lop-sided collective agreements and, worse, who fail to use the management rights they still retain.

  19. I’ll bet a box of Tim’s best that we let a lot more into this counry’s educational institutions under student visas than the USA. I could be wrong but any time I’ve been on campus it sure seems that way. Years of liberalism and those good old Canadian values have assured that for some time to come I’m sure. Maybe that’s too harsh a statement but I am one Canadian tired of being politically correct in all things.
    W. Verwey

  20. Your point is well taken, Roseberry.
    But, I do think tenure protects intellectual sloth and the craven slobs with agendas that obstruct a university from being a marketplace of ideas.
    You can’t deny that the above have the upperhand.
    Yale has crossed a line that only sniveling leftist elitist don’t get. We were very lucky where our girls went to college with our damn hard earned and saved bucks – Penn State and St. John’s(the Great Book school, not the basketball one, where serious scholarship wasn’t derailed by all of the victim electives and leftist bullshit).
    Good bless other parents paying hard savings in the US rebuked by having their kid to sit next to the “Taliban” freebe.
    Contempt. Disgust. It makes me sick.

  21. By letting this guy in to study in the U.S., ask: what harm does it do? And what good can it do? The harm: it’s an affront to the self-respect of anyone with a sense of fair-play and values, as well as a slap in the face to the families of every single soldier lost in fighting his former comrades in thuggery. The good: absolutely nothing. There is no need for this. Bush should be ashamed. He is humiliated. And I love the guy!
    Then again, who are we to speak? We have Mohammed Elmasry as tenured faculty at U.Waterloo.

  22. As an academic, I can tell you that it’s not the tenure system that’s the problem, it’s how hiring takes place in departments. Hiring committees vett applications based on those that reflect the ideological predispositions of the committee members that are strongest. Over the past 30 years this has meant that leftist professors guide the process to ensure that more supporting leftist thinkers are hired. I’ve seen amazing candidates pilloried for minutiae (usually done in a very subtle and sneaky manner) simply because it was clear they weren’t leftist. Canadian faculties are far worse than American (perhaps because there are fewer), and definitely worse than British.

  23. Moussa mussa gets the message; It is the Long War. +
    Arab League Chief: Cartoons Are Deadly Threat Against Islam
    The Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, wants the UN to crack down in a very strict manner on those who draw cartoons that offend Islam: Arab League chief says cartoons part of anti-Islam battle.
    AMMAN – Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa on Monday considered the Prophet Mohammed�s cartoons as part of a �battle against Islam� rather than a symptom of conflict among civilizations, and urged Arab parliamentarians to put pressure on the United Nations to come up with a �strict� solution to this problem.
    �I don�t think the issue pertains to an inter-civilization conflict. We have to mention the issue in its real perspective – it is a battle against Islam,� Mussa said at the opening session of the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU) conference at the Dead Sea resort in Jordan.
    �I urge you to send a message to the United Nations that it should address this issue in a strict manner in order we can deal in future with each other on bases that exclude double standards,� he added. +
    via LGF

  24. Urging everyone to establish communications with local MPs advising them of your priority issues past Apr. 3.
    Know you’re discussing Taliban official studying at Yale and the advisability of same. It is Bush’s alma mater. So American administration has sanctioned same.
    Go to: Civitatensis: “Disturbing and Disturbed”
    Read all seven comments. Part of explanation there.
    Go to: The Politic – “In Praise of Ezra”
    Read comments.
    Go to: Proud to be Canadian “Canadians are Fighting Overseas”
    Read all comments.
    Regards, Anna Keightley

  25. Aftr April 3rd, I urge you all to check out
    How’dtheyvote.ca This has a list of all MPs, what their e-mail and address, phone number is and you can search to see how they voted on any topic, or what they have said on any issue. It lists all 308 MPs and their party. This sie appeared last fall. Someone has done a lot of work and I hope he keeps it up. Good way to keep up to date on your local MP, and if he is attending on a regular basis. Too bad the MSM doesn’t check it out.

  26. I think its rediculous how all of you buy into this blatent brainwashing CALLED propeghanda! this man is just trying to live his life, he has suported the taliban with his words, he has never killed anyone, fox newscasters made a reference to nazis would look up to this man and we accept him in our colleges… well, a collage is NOT a public school, they are in it for profit and Yale, is in it for MUCH profit, they will get money whether or not YOU or ME are killed by this man in the future, and frankly why should they care? If you dont want those who support murderers with words only maybe you should complain about the nazi part here in america, maybe they have changed tactics but so will the taliban, NO ignorance is acceptable. Educate yourself, you can do a quick search online to find that this man Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi has never done anything illegal and has never made any threats, he is simply a religious zealot and im sure most of you are not too far from his way of thinking, you simply KNOW hes wrong and hes going to kill, and he KNOWS hes right, and so what if he kills, it wont hurt fox any… so why does fox care? because you care and it gets them ratings, and why should you care? because your just as ignorant as you think the taliban is, if you care so much why not go kill him yourself? Im sure he will end up dead soon after having his face sent to the masses across FOX NEWS where the masses flock to for there “most hated and popular enemies to date” where they made him seem like an angry enemy to all free persons, rather than a person himself trying to be free. You might think him not wanting to be on camra was an effort to hide and funny, but think about it, how much do most of you hate him because he is taliban? he knows people hate him for who he is, so why would he want people to know who he is?

  27. Let’s see…he has a student visa, given by George W. Bush. He doesn’t seem to be enrolling in any aviation courses. What could possibly be wrong here? I’m sure the whole arrangement was vetted as responsibly as the UAE/Port management contracts that Bush was never told about, but he assures us “I have no concern for national security” (very close to those exact words.
    You think that someone who was a government official must have planned some terrorist by some yahoos out in the bush of the same country? He might as well have been head of the garbage collection for all the influence he had over Al Quaida. Remember, the Taliban were SUPPORTED by the USA, and were ostensibly the legal government of Afghanistan – they just went completely awry and crazy, much like the domestic spying on innocent citizens this country does (of COURSE I mean NIXON, don’t I? Is there someone feeling convicted?)

  29. Piet’s hit the nail on the head with this one. Hashemi had no major influence on the decisions of the Taliban, and poses no threat to Americans. He is a person, and perhaps you all should remember that before your judgement on him. I certainly wouldn’t want people abroad judging me according to the atrocities of my government, and I assure you, they abound. I am sure that he feels the same. Given what he’s been through, he deserves a little more compassion, and I am proud to let you all know that he has mine. He’s a human being, not a monster.

  30. Liberalism is a mental disorder, and it will surely destroy my formerly great country.

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