Earlier this week Kristof [of the New York Times] was 
    awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary of the kind 
    quoted [below].

    In March 2002 he went to bat for Al-Arian, portraying him 
    as a Gandhi behind bars, a victimized absent-minded 
    professor:

       "The point is not whether one agrees with Professor Al-
       Arian, a rumpled academic with a salt-and-pepper beard 
       who is harshly critical of Israel (and also of 
       repressive Arab countries) — but who also denounces 
       terrorism, promotes inter-faith services with Jews and 
       Christians, and led students at his Islamic school to 
       a memorial service after 9/11 where they all sang 'God 
       Bless America.' No, the larger point is that a university,
       even a country, becomes sterile when people are too 
       intimidated to say things out of the mainstream."

    Al-Arian’s detractors, not his defenders, were the ones 
    who were supposed to be intimidated into silence.

    Will Kristof now apologize?