I agree with you. It would have been more polite to not invite he murderer than to insult him in your own home. It goes against the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic beliefs and customs of hospitality. Great secularists are a pain in the ass because they don’t believe in anything that does not make them feel good. It felt good to invite this mad man to the school. When the protests became too strong he changed tact to insult the man he invited in order to gain popularity with the masses he miscalculated would be on his side. In doing this change of tactics he is now standing in the middle of the road making it easy to be run over from both directions. In short he will get his in the end, most likeley from the people he wanted to impress so much in the first place.

Oh, come on! That country executes homosexuals for their sexual orientation. I do believe a prison counts as a major public institution.

Treating the Iranian president like the dirt he is has NOTHING to do with mistreating a visitor.

The university should never have invited that homophobic, sexist, and racist butcher. That's the mistake they made.

BINGO!

I actually think it's great that they had him speak.  Listening to pieces of the session, especially the Q&A, revealed how out-of-touch the President of Iran is.  The best thing you can do to damage world dictators is give them a forum to speak, and where folks can freely ask questions.  Ahmadinejad likely never had to face such a critical audience since if he gave a speech like that in Iran and someone shot their mouth off at him, they'd be jailed or executed.

I think every half-baked dictator in the world should be invited to universities for these sorts of sessions.  It does us a world of good and makes them look like the chumps they are.

The best thing you can do to damage world dictators is give them a forum to speak, and where folks can freely ask questions.

Turns out that those who ask questions are not the group we have to worry about.

Ask 52 Americans what kind of welcome they enjoyed in Iran back in 79.

 

Sorry but he is not out of touch he is just being politically correct in his speech. When he said he has no homosexuals in Iran he is speaking the truth. If people are caught in a homosexual act they are executed for being a violent criminal not for being homosexual.

It is like in the old Soviet Union, where you could not say what you thought because you went to jail for saying it so you had to put it in politically correct terms. Like here in the US you could not make fun of bald people we call them follicle challenged. What is happening is we like in Iran are restricted from speaking the truth without using code words. All racist use code words so they can speak their mind without criticism. So do the racist in Iran he is not out of touch you are out of touch because you will give him a pass for being out of touch when he is calling you an idiot because he plans to do what he is going to do to you and us and your turning a blind eye to his plans.

What is the most entertaining to me is all the ways the left are excusing his tyrrany.  If only they could find it in their cold, dark hearts to extend the same courtesy to Americans.

What is the most entertaining to me is all the ways the left are excusing his tyrrany.

In how many ways are the left excusing his tyranny?

In how many ways are the left excusing his tyranny?

Let me count the ways https://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=163463

Just a start, but google is your friend.

Let me count the ways https://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=163463

None of those are attributed a verifiable source and even if they were none of those are excusing tyranny.

So far it seems the MSM is painting Basher as the bad guy here, and Ahmadinejad as some kind of victim. Apparently, not only was Columbia Univesity supposed to allow him to speak, but the only way he could really be afforded "freedom" was to treat him with kidd gloves.

Since when did "Freedom of Speech" come with a guarentee to be given a public forum, press coverage and respect?

I thought it was bad form of Columbia to allow him to speak, and bad manners to treat him the way they did.

But I'd rather lob missles at the man, not insults.  Heh

Haha, we can always depend on LW to get straight to the heart of the matter.

None of those are attributed a verifiable source and even if they were none of those are excusing tyranny.

Amadinejad in 2008 is not?  You have a strange standard.  And the contention was not that A, B or C was, just that members of the left are.  And you mispoke.  The source is verifiable since it was written down.  The Actual person is not.  But then the tone of their comments indicates the left end of the spectrum.  Of course it may just be another vast right wing conspiracy too.