From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Right now it just looks like an employee of CBS facilitated Hashemi's
enrollment and not the organization. I'd save my ire for the university


"Mark"  wrote in message news:440d03b7{at}w3....
> "Hashemi's enrollment at Yale was aided by CBS news cameraman Mike
> Hoover,"
>
> What is it with CBS?  scaryville>
>
> Which is not to say that State is off the hook either.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:440d00c4{at}w3....
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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