Rahmatullah / boola boola
Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday’s New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far.
I got nuthin’.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:41 am
What was it….oh, yeah, something about terrorists coming to the US to study and learn our culture so they could BLOW UP our citizens. And the politicians are more concerned about who owns the company that will run parts of our ports…So glad that DC is on its toes.
February 27th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Hey but free trade and globalization will save us all, right?
February 27th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I don’t get it. He can’t get an education at Yale? Or he’s not supposed to be in the country, and Yale is supposed to make that decision?
February 27th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
based on your post, i’m guessing you didn’t read the article, right?
anyway, you should read it and learn something about it and his efforts to get here.
February 27th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
though i liked the boola boola reference (tc ‘99)
February 27th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
I think we might want to be careful about those whom we grant visas.
One should remember that Sayid Qutb, grandfather of modern Islamic fudamentalism, formed his radical views while being educated in America.
February 27th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Very interesting articles, thanks!
Maybe the Yale Mafia in Langley arranged this scholarship for services rendered. If his extended family follows him to New Haven, I think we’ll have our answer. This is the only way I can process this story.