Taliban at Yale

Via Cox & Forkum: Yale has admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban, to the school. Read more in the Wall Street Journal. Hashemi rose to prominence in the Taliban regime due to his language skills (he speaks English, Pashto, Persian and Urdu), and traveled the world as their ambassador. In that capacity, he defended the Taliban's policies of intolerance, subjugation and violence. He now claims that his heart wasn't really in it.

I don't know ... I'm ready to forget or forgive. How about you?

Comments

  1. Amal1:01 p.m., March 12, 2006

    How about we send him back to the Taliban in pieces? It is ok for this piece of human waste to get educated at an Ivy League school in the west but it is not ok for girls in that country to get even a rudimentary education? For women to work? Is the U.S. on crack letting a former taliban member into the country?

    Nope, sorry, no forgiving here.

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