From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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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