COLUMBIA MAY LOSE STATE AID THANKS TO AHMADINEJAD
The Jewish Blogosphere has thoroughly covered this, so I don't have much more to add. But I must disagree with my Lefty friends about Free Speech applying even to that sociopath. It's not allowed in his country and to invite him HERE and give him a platform for his hate-filled spewing... well, I have to wonder if the patriots of 1776 would have invited that syphilitic crazyman King George here to speak during the American Revolution.
I doubt it.
And to Columbia University (I used to live a few blocks away from Columbia and am APPALLED) - what goes around comes around.
As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepared to address Columbia University Monday amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite the leader to campus.In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia's insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school.
Lawmakers warned about other consequences for Columbia and its president, Lee Bollinger, who has resisted campus and public pressure to cancel Mr. Ahmadinejad's appearance today, arguing that Columbia's commitment to scholarship requires the school to directly confront offensive ideas.
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