From: Ellen K. 

This is completely disgusting.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:36:44 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote in message :

>So much for Dubya's alma mater
>
>So it's ok to have a religious fanatic who advocates violence against
>homosexuals attend your university but the military is banned because of
>"don't ask, don't tell"? Meethinks something is askew in academia
>
>
>http://www.theconservativevoice.com/forum/read.html?id=1975
>
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>by Jim Kouri - While most American parents can only dream of sending their
>kids to a first-tier university such as Harvard and Yale, a former
>ambassador for the oppressive and brutal Afghan Taliban is enrolled at Yale
>University in New Haven, Connecticut, even though he possesses none of the
>qualifications to attend such an institution for higher education.
>"Yale University enrolls the Taliban's former spokesman as a student, but
>continues to prohibit other students from organizing a Reserve Officer
>Training Corps chapter on campus and also seeks to deny students the right
>to hear from military recruiters about employment opportunities," say
>members of the student group Young America's Foundation.
>
>Under the guise of alleged sex discrimination as a result of the military's
>so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards homosexuals,
Yale and other
>universities have blocked their students from partaking of ROTC training on
>campus.
>
>"Yet Yale University is allowing a member or former member of a group that
>not only discriminated against gays, but actually stoned them to death,"
>says one outraged Yale student.
>
>On February 26, the New York Times Magazine reported that Yale admitted
>Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Deputy Foreign Secretary of the Taliban, into
>a non-degree program, with a chance to gain full degree status by 2006.
>
>"In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world," Hashemi
told the Times.
>"I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."
>
>Prior to his arrival as a student, Hashemi was imprisoned at Bagram Air
>Base. He had been a member of the Taliban government, serving both in
>Afghanistan and in the United States as Second Foreign Secretary and
>Ambassador-at-Large. Yale has not commented on why the university, which
>accepts only ten percent of all applicants, granted admission to this former
>Taliban officer. One Yale official claims it's part of creating diversity on
>campus, but opponents of having a Taliban officer attend a premier college
>say that excuse has been used by colleges and universities to invite
>everyone including cop-killers to their campuses.
>
>Hashemi possesses a 4th grade formal education, never took the SATs and
>advocated violence against homosexuals. As the mouthpiece for the Taliban,
>Hashemi advocated the oppression of women, gays and non-Muslims. The Taliban
>are known associates and allies of Al-Qaeda. Not surprising, one
>intelligence report indicates Hashemi attended an Al-Qaeda terrorism
>training camp in Afghanistan.
>
>Yale alumnus, and former Army Captain Flagg Youngblood said, "That my alma
>mater would embrace an ambassador from one of America's declared and
>defeated enemies and in the same breath keep ROTC and military recruiters
>off campus shows where Yale's allegiance falls. Yale's actions show that
>they consider the US military more evil than
>the Taliban."
>
>While at Yale in the mid-nineties, Flagg worked with members of Congress and
>other Yale students and alumni to combat ROTC's second-class status on many
>campuses across the country. Flagg's frustration with the 70-mile drive to
>the University of Connecticut in order to participate in ROTC culminated in
>the passage of the Pombo and Solomon amendments which are currently before
>the US Supreme Court.
>
>Hashemi's enrollment at Yale was aided by CBS news cameraman Mike Hoover,
>who developed a friendship with the Taliban government apologist during
>several trips to Afghanistan, dating back to 1991. According to Hoover, he
>contacted an attorney in his hometown of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. That
>attorney, Bob Schuster, who had earned his undergraduate degree at Yale,
>brought Hashemi to the attention of Richard Shaw, the Dean of Undergraduate
>Admissions.
>
>According to the Times, Shaw said of his interview with Hashemi, "My
>perception was,' It's the enemy!' But, the interview with him was one of the
>most interesting I've ever had. I walked away with a sense: Whoa! This is a
>person to be reckoned with and who could educate us about the world."
>
>Yale refuses to comment on how Hashemi's tuition -- almost $160,000 for four
>years -- is being paid.
>
>John Fund, writing for the Opinion Journal does not view this admission as
>any great achievement, even though he quotes Richard Shaw as saying
that..."another
>foreign student of Rahmatullah's [Hashemi's] caliber had applied for special
>student status. We lost him to Harvard. I didn't want that to happen again."
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