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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (21193)9/7/2006 2:27:34 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
We await thunderous criticism from academia

Ed Lasky
The American Thinker
9 06 06

I wonder if the European academics who boycot Israel will object to Iranian expulsion of liberalism from its Universities. Khatami is still scheduled to speak at Harvard.

From The Jerusalem Post:

<<< "Iran to rid universities of liberalism"

Iran’s hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Islamic fundamentalism in the country.

With his call echoing the rhetoric of the nation’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Ahmadinejad appears determined to remake Iran by reviving the fundamentalist goals pursued under the republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran still has strong moderate factions, and since taking office a year ago Ahmadinejad has moved to replace pragmatic veterans in the government and diplomatic corps with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners. His administration also has launched crackdowns on independent journalists, Web sites and bloggers.

Speaking to a group of students Tuesday, Ahmadinejad called on them to pressure his administration to keep driving out moderate instructors, a process that began earlier this year. >>>

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