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To: aladin who wrote (160217)3/9/2006 1:12:43 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793928
 
Would you be so forgiving if we were discussing SS officers or other former Nazi's, maybe Goebbels in particular?

If that's the way you feel about Muslims, I wonder why you are so willing to let "the Nazis" run our seaports?

Be that as it may -- sure, I'd support a former member of the Nazi party or a former member of the Communist party attending college in the US. I would hope that the FBI kept close tabs on them rather than letting them roam around completely unsupervised.

I've certainly met plenty of Communists in college, not many Nazis, and would love to debate Islam with this gentleman although since I am female he probably wouldn't talk to me.

He is famous for telling a Western woman who questioned the issue of women under the Taliban, "madam, I feel sorry for your husband." I've been told the same thing myself, including right here on SI, and no doubt there are many who post on Bill's thread who think it but won't say it because Bill runs a tight ship. ;^)



To: aladin who wrote (160217)3/9/2006 5:50:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793928
 
The real problem is that, while this guy seems sorry about his Taliban past, getting him clearly to renounce it was never an issue with Yale. They seem to regard it more as "quaint" than as evil or dangerous to us.