Same jerk-off that was in Michael Moore's movie Farenheit 911. His first course at Yale was - Terrorism -- Past, Present, Future.

Yale accepted him ahead of many other qualified applicants.

Source: Fox & Friends this morning.

Homeland Security, paging Homeland Security, we have a cleanup in Isle 3!

Amazing. Let me guess, his next class is using a flight simulator? Or maybe he'll graduate and get a job with port security.

What a bunch of shit.

Jihadi Turns Bulldog
The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?

Monday, February 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
By John Fund at Opinion Journal

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.

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.

"In some ways," Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.

Many foreign readers of the Times will no doubt snicker at the revelation that naive Yale administrators scrambled to admit Mr. Rahmatullah. The Times reported that Yale "had another foreigner of Rahmatullah's caliber apply for special-student status." Richard Shaw, Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions, told the Times that "we lost him to Harvard," and "I didn't want that to happen again."

   In the spring of 2001, I was one of several writers at The Wall Street Journal who interviewed Mr. Rahmatullah at our offices across the street from the World Trade Center. His official title was second foreign secretary; his mission was to explain the regime's decision to rid the country of two 1,000-year-old towering statues of Buddha carved out of rock 90 miles from the Afghan capital, Kabul. The archeological treasures were considered the greatest remaining examples of third- and fifth-century Greco-Indian art in the world. But Taliban leader Mullah Omar had ordered all statues in the country destroyed, calling them idols of infidels and repugnant to Islam.
Even Muslim nations like Pakistan denounced the move. Mr. Rahmatullah, who at the time claimed to be 24 but now says he was lying about his age and was actually two years younger, cut a curious figure in our office. He wore a traditional Afghan turban and white baggy pants and sported a full beard. His English, while sometimes elliptical, was smooth and colloquial. He made himself very clear when he said the West had no business worrying about the statues, because it had cut off trade and foreign aid to the Taliban. "When the world destroys the future of our children with economic sanctions, they have no right to worry about our past," he told us, according to my notes from the meeting.

He smiled as he informed us that the statues had been blown up with explosive charges only after people living nearby had been removed. He had no comment on reports that Mullah Omar had ordered 100 cows be sacrificed as atonement for the Taliban government's failure to destroy the Buddhas earlier.

As for Osama bin Laden, Mr. Rahmatullah called the Saudi fugitive a "guest" of his government and said it hadn't been proved that bin Laden was linked to any terrorist acts, despite his indictment in the U.S. for planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He said that if the embassy bombings were terrorist acts, then so was the Clinton administration's firing cruise missiles into his country in an attempt to kill bin Laden. "You killed 19 innocent people," he told us.

After the meeting I walked him out. I vividly recall our stopping at a window as he stared up at the World Trade Center. We stood there for a minute chatting, but I don't recall what he said. He then left. I next thought about him a few months later, on Sept. 11, as I stood outside our office building covered in dust and debris staring at the remains of the towers that had just collapsed. I occasionally wondered what had happened to Mr. Rahmatullah. I assumed he either had died in the collapse of the Taliban regime, had been jailed, or was living quietly in the new, democratic Afghanistan.

From newspaper clips I knew that his visit to the Journal's offices was part of a PR tour. He visited other newspapers and spoke at universities, and the State Department had granted him a meeting with midlevel officials. None of the meetings went particularly well. At the University of Southern California, Mr. Rahmatullah expressed irritation with a question about statues that at that point hadn't yet been blown up. "You know, really, I am asked so much about these statues that I have a headache now," he moaned. "If I go back to Afghanistan, I will blow them."

Carina Chocano, a writer for Salon.com who attended several of his speeches in the U.S., noted the hostility of many of his audiences. "A lesser publicist might have melted down," she wrote. "But the cool, unruffled and media-smart Hashemi instead spun his story into a contemporary parable of ironic iconoclasm," peppering his lectures with "statue jokes."

But sometimes his humor really backfired. At a speech for the Atlantic Council, Mr. Rahmatullah was confronted by a woman in the audience who lifted the burkha she was wearing and chastised him for the Taliban's infamous treatment of women. "You have imprisoned the women--it's a horror, let me tell you," she cried. Mr. Rahmatullah responded with a sneer: "I'm really sorry to your husband. He might have a very difficult time with you."

A videotape of his cutting remark became part of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," and infuriated the likes of Mavis Leno, wife of "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno. Mrs. Leno helped found the Feminist Majority's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan and devoted countless hours to focusing public attention on the plight of Afghanistan's women and girls. "I will never, ever abandon these women," she often said before the Taliban's overthrow. Here's hoping she has saved some of her outrage for Yale's decision to welcome Mr. Rahmatullah with open arms.

In his interview with the New York Times, Mr. Rahmatullah, said that if he had to do it all over, he would have been less "antagonistic" in his remarks during his U.S. road tour. "I regret the way I spoke sometimes. Now I would try to be softer. A little bit." Just a little?

Today, when he is asked if Afghanistan would be better off if the Taliban were still in charge, Mr. Rahmatullah, has a mixed answer: "Economically, no. In terms of security, yes. In terms of general happiness, no. In the long-term interests of the country? I don't think so. I think the radicals were taking over and doing crazy stuff. I regret when people think of the Taliban and then think of me--that feeling people have after they know I was affiliated with them is painful to me." Note that the government official who represented the Taliban abroad now claims to have been only "affiliated" with them.

Even though he evinces only semiregret for his actions in service to the Taliban, there is evidence that he has become quite a charmer. After the fall of the Taliban, he resumed a friendship he had developed with Mike Hoover, a CBS News cameraman who, according to a 2001 Associated Press story, had visited Afghanistan three times as a guest of the Taliban. Mr. Hoover inspired Mr. Rahmatullah to think about going to the U.S. to finish his studies. "I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher," said Mr. Hoover. He persuaded Bob Schuster, an attorney friend of his from Wyoming who had gone to Yale, to help out. As the Times reported, "Schuster called the provost's office to ask how an ex-Taliban envoy with a fourth-grade education and a high-school equivalency degree might go about applying to one of the world's top universities."

Intrigued by Mr. Rahmatullah, Dean Shaw arranged for his admission into a nondegree program for special students. He apparently has done well, so far pulling down a 3.33 grade-point average.





There is something to be said for the instinct to reach out to one's former enemies. America's postwar reconciliation with the Japanese and Germans has paid great dividends. But there are limits.
During a trip to Germany I once ran into a relative of Hans Fritsche, the top deputy to Josef Goebbels, whom the Guardian, a British newspaper, once described as "the Nazi Propaganda Minister's leading radio spokesman [whose] commentaries were among the main items of German home and foreign broadcasting." After the war he was tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg, but because he had only given hate-filled speeches, he was acquitted of all charges in 1946. In the early 1950s, he applied for a visa to visit the U.S. and explain his regret at having served an evil regime. He was turned down, to the everlasting regret of the relative with whom I spoke. She noted that Albert Speer, Hitler's former architect, was also turned down for a U.S. visa even after he had completed a 20-year prison sentence and had written a best-selling book detailing Hitler's madness.

I don't believe Mr. Rahmatullah had direct knowledge of the 9/11 plot, and I don't think he has ever killed anyone. I can appreciate that he is trying to rebuild his life. But he willingly and cheerfully served an evil regime in a manner that would have made Goebbels proud. That he was 22 at the time is little of an excuse. There are many poor, bright students--American and foreign alike--who would jump at the opportunity to attend Yale. Why should Mr. Rahmatullah go to the line ahead of all of them? That's a question Yale alumni should ask when their alma mater comes looking for contributions.

President Bush, who already has a well-known disdain for Yale elitism from his student days there, may also have some questions. In the wake of his being blindsided by his own administration over the Dubai port deal, he should be interested in finding out exactly who at the State Department approved Mr. Rahmatullah's application for a student visa.

How the fuck did he pass the SAT's?

He is also attending Yale on some sort of .gov grant,talk about irony.

satire, right????????
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Quoted: How the fuck did he pass the SAT's?

When you are PC enough, you don't have to pass tests.

Quoted: He is also attending Yale on some sort of .gov grant,talk about irony.

I sincerely hope that is a joke.

Wow Im at a complete loss of words.

Quoted: Wow Im at a complete loss of words.

This is stupid even for academia.....

Quoted: Quoted: He is also attending Yale on some sort of .gov grant,talk about irony. I sincerely hope that is a joke.

yeah no shit,,what akick in the balls to all the kids that bust their ass' or theparents to get a good education,,only so some goat herder  from  BFE jihad land can  go to oneof the higer schools here for free,,what a crock of bullshit.... next thing you know when the bird flu goes H2H in Sashitiestan BFE,, we'll  spend gov money to bring over familys of the dying kids to go to disney  before they croak!

Quoted: Quoted: Wow Im at a complete loss of words. This is stupid even for academia.....

well George W. went to yale, and some would say he has a 4th grade education. So its not too far of a stretch.

Quoted: How the fuck did he pass the SAT's?

He didn't have to, the yankees have their version of the "good ole boy network" too. From the article:

Even though he (Rahmatullah - edited for clarity) evinces only semiregret for his actions in service to the Taliban, there is evidence that he has become quite a charmer. After the fall of the Taliban, he resumed a friendship he had developed with Mike Hoover, a CBS News cameraman who, according to a 2001 Associated Press story, had visited Afghanistan three times as a guest of the Taliban. Mr. Hoover inspired Mr. Rahmatullah to think about going to the U.S. to finish his studies. "I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher," said Mr. Hoover. He persuaded Bob Schuster, an attorney friend of his from Wyoming who had gone to Yale, to help out. As the Times reported, "Schuster called the provost's office to ask how an ex-Taliban envoy with a fourth-grade education and a high-school equivalency degree might go about applying to one of the world's top universities." Intrigued by Mr. Rahmatullah, Dean Shaw arranged for his admission into a nondegree program for special students...

Quoted: yeah no shit,,what akick in the balls to all the kids that bust their ass' or theparents to get a good education,,only so some goat herder  from  BFE jihad land can  go to oneof the higer schools here for free,,what a crock of bullshit.... next thing you know when the bird flu goes H2H in Sashitiestan BFE,, we'll  spend gov money to bring over familys of the dying kids to go to disney  before they croak!

Man, you got that right!

Let me add to what you said.

How about our service members (who would have had a snowball's chance in hell of attending Yale) who fought and died in A-stan?  Against the taliban?  This is such a slap in the face of all that is decent.  It really is shameful...

Link to a real news story

No .gov grant.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh........what State is Yale in?  

Quoted: "In some ways," Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could SHOULD have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.

Fucking bullshit!

Quoted: well George W. went to yale, and some would say he has a 4th grade education. So its not too far of a stretch.

GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT.

They don't make dummies fighter pilots.

He also WAS NOT A MEMBER OF AN ORGANIZATION WHO GAVE AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF OVER 3,000 PEOPLE IN A HEINOUS ATTACK UPON US SOIL.

Wonder what his screen name here is...we know it cannot be Rebel_Grey or wolfman97

GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT. They don't make dummies fighter pilots.

I respectfully disagree.

I graduated from college with a "Math Education" major who could hardly pass anything - dumber than hell, but made it through with a 2.0.

He enlisted in the Navy after graduation and became a fighter pilot.

You don't have to be real bright, just have good motor skills.

You know something, there is one reason and one reason only to let this piece of shit into an American university:

Openly and blatantly declare your hatred for America.

Our soldiers are still fighting Al Queda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Taliban terrorists are still killing people in Afghanistan through terrorist attacks. The Taliban is still the enemy, and this man is a member of the Taliban. To me that means that the Dean at Yale and all of those bleeding heart lawyers who helped this piece of shit get a Visa are guilty of providing aid and comfort to the enemy. They are traitors and they belong in front of a firing squad.

Quoted: GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT. They don't make dummies fighter pilots. I respectfully disagree. I graduated from college with a "Math Education" major who could barly pass anything - dumber than hell, but made it through with a 2.0. He enlisted in the Navy after graduation and became a fighter pilot. You don't have to be real bright, just have good motor skills.

Here we go...

There is a known terrorist on our soil studying at one of our most elite universities and what do the leftists do? They come out and start bashing Bush and calling Bush an idiot.



Let nothing tear you away from your hatred of the president!

Everyday this world just keeps getting more fucked up.

How dare you question their patriotism? How. Dare. You.

You know, this isn't surprising.  After 9/11, I was really stunned and amazed by some of the things I heard liberals say.  And then there's DU, which often had me agog and left me with my jaw hanging at the simultaneously stupid and sick thinking on display daily there.  Until it became so freaking routine, predictable, and universal among them and you started seeing mainstream Democrats saying some of the same crazy shit.

But I have become jaded, and literally nothing surprises me about liberals anymore .  The student union at UW calls a monument to a WWII war hero not something that belongs on a college campus?  Not surprising.  That an elite university would embrace one of the USA's enemies, in the name of enlightened free discussion?  Typical.  When another similar university destroyed its president for passingly suggesting men and women are different, it was decried as unacceptable and intolerant, sexist, etc.  But Yale embraces one of the Taliban  Why do you think that is?  His perspective on gender relations?  Sensitivity towards gays?  Religious tolerance?  Or because he was an enemy of the USA?

Money paves a lot of roads.

Quoted: I respectfully disagree. I graduated from college with a "Math Education" major who could hardly pass anything - dumber than hell, but made it through with a 2.0. He enlisted in the Navy after graduation and became a fighter pilot. You don't have to be real bright, just have good motor skills.

Flying a fighter jet is like playing 2 pianos at the same time.

Dim bulbs don't usually find themselves behind the stick of a fighter jet.

I have never met a fighter pilot who was not smart. I have met some real cocky ones, but they could back it up.

Being ANY sort of pilot requires math skills, multitasking skills, and higher than average intelligence. Controlling a combat aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound, dealing with multiple threats also going the speed of sound, knowing how to operate various weapons systems with precision.....

You may think an idiot can pull that off, but I defy you to find one that could.

Very few people can make the cut to be a fighter pilot. The .mil sees to this.

Quoted: You don't have to be real bright, just have good motor skills.

You're basing this on how many years of you flying a jet? How many carrier landings in high chop do you have under you belt? For the record, I don't believe grades in most classes are an indicator of intelligence so much as work ethic.

Why the fuck was he given a Visa?  What was the USCIS thinking?

Quoted: Everyday this world COUNTRY just keeps getting more fucked up.

Fixed it. WTF!

I hope .gov keeps him under a microscope

Quoted: GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT. They don't make dummies fighter pilots.

Haven't met many fighter pilots have you?

He also WAS NOT A MEMBER OF AN ORGANIZATION WHO GAVE AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF OVER 3,000 PEOPLE IN A HEINOUS ATTACK UPON US SOIL.

The US government trained, financed, armed, and equipped Al Quedah and the Taliban. They also paid large sums to them immediately prior to the September 11th WTC and Pentagon attacks, so yeah, actually, he is. Deal with it.

What's good for the goose etc.   I'd hire that chick he insulted, the one in the burkha, to grade papers for the class.

Quoted: Quoted: GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT. They don't make dummies fighter pilots. Haven't met many fighter pilots have you? He also WAS NOT A MEMBER OF AN ORGANIZATION WHO GAVE AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF OVER 3,000 PEOPLE IN A HEINOUS ATTACK UPON US SOIL. The US government trained, financed, armed, and equipped Al Quedah and the Taliban. They also paid large sums to them immediately prior to the September 11th WTC and Pentagon attacks, so yeah, actually, he is. Deal with it.

And another troll outs itself.

Quoted: Haven't met many fighter pilots have you?

Yes, I have. Naval aviators as well as Airforce fighter pilots.

The US government trained, financed, armed, and equipped Al Quedah and the Taliban. They also paid large sums to them immediately prior to the September 11th WTC and Pentagon attacks, so yeah, actually, he is. Deal with it.

Oh jeezus......

Bring out the tinfoil, ma!!

You DU conspiracy theorists really should stop to think about how idiotic your statements are. But that would make you THINK, which you are incapable of doing.

Quoted: Quoted: You don't have to be real bright, just have good motor skills. You're basing this on how many years of you flying a jet? How many carrier landings in high chop do you have under you belt? For the record, I don't believe grades in most classes are an indicator of intelligence so much as work ethic.

This guy was a dumb fuck - having to be tutored in many classes.

I'm just saying that you don't have to be real bright to be a pilot - average/below-average intelligence will do.

This has nothing to do with Bush's intelligence - though, I believe he has gone down hill in his second term with some of his policies.

An no, I have never piloted a high-performance air-craft.

Someone stated that a dummie could not pilot military aircraft and I came back with an example to the contrary.

I'm incredibly pissed.  In a year or so I want to transfer to a four year university. The average state school costs a lot as it is, and if you want to go out-of-state, it costs even more.  

But this pisses me off that a former Taliban member gets a free ride while the average law-abiding American citizen like myself has to bust his rear end to get into the average four year school.  

Quoted: Uhhhhhhhhhhh........what State is Yale in?

Connecticut.

Quoted: This guy was a dumb fuck - having to be tutored in many classes.

That doesn't sound like a dumb fuck to me.  Sounds like a hard worker who is willing to overcome adversity.  A lot of people would simply say, awww fuck it fail and do something else.  People who are willing to work and succede at things may not have a 150 IQ but it is a lot better than someone with a 135 IQ who is lazy and doesn't put forth any effort.

Quoted: Quoted: This guy was a dumb fuck - having to be tutored in many classes. That doesn't sound like a dumb fuck to me.  Sounds like a hard worker who is willing to overcome adversity.  A lot of people would simply say, awww fuck it fail and do something else.  People who are willing to work and succede at things may not have a 150 IQ but it is a lot better than someone with a 135 IQ who is lazy and doesn't put forth any effort.

He was not a hard worker - he copied other peoples work when he could - the tutoring was a joke and enabled him to just get by.

He was using up someone with potential's place at the university.

Quoted: How the fuck did he pass the SAT's?

He doesnt have to do SATs if he aspires to kill Americans with knowledge gained from an elite American university.  I say burn that fucker down, Yale and Harvard too.  That article is fucking disgusting.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This guy was a dumb fuck - having to be tutored in many classes. That doesn't sound like a dumb fuck to me.  Sounds like a hard worker who is willing to overcome adversity.  A lot of people would simply say, awww fuck it fail and do something else.  People who are willing to work and succede at things may not have a 150 IQ but it is a lot better than someone with a 135 IQ who is lazy and doesn't put forth any effort. He was not a hard worker - he copied other peoples work when he could - the tutoring was a joke and enabled him to just get by. He was using up someone with potential's place at the university.

Sounds like American college/high-school students overall.

We really are converting the hearts and minds of the people over to our ways.

Quoted: Quoted: GW Bush was a FIGHTER PILOT. They don't make dummies fighter pilots. Haven't met many fighter pilots have you? He also WAS NOT A MEMBER OF AN ORGANIZATION WHO GAVE AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF OVER 3,000 PEOPLE IN A HEINOUS ATTACK UPON US SOIL. The US government trained, financed, armed, and equipped Al Quedah and the Taliban. They also paid large sums to them immediately prior to the September 11th WTC and Pentagon attacks, so yeah, actually, he is. Deal with it.

Met many people who signed the checks, did you?

Quoted: He was not a hard worker - he copied other peoples work when he could - the tutoring was a joke and enabled him to just get by. He was using up someone with potential's place at the university.

\

So he skated by, probably partied a lot & hooked up with co-eds instead of doing his homework, and now he's flying multimillion dollar aircraft at/above the speed of sound. Jeez, what a dummy.

Methinks you are jealous.

Quoted: I'm just saying that you don't have to be real bright to be a pilot - average/below-average intelligence will do.

Really? This may have been true back in the past, maybe several decades ago, but today it's not true as another poster pointed out.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This guy was a dumb fuck - having to be tutored in many classes. That doesn't sound like a dumb fuck to me.  Sounds like a hard worker who is willing to overcome adversity.  A lot of people would simply say, awww fuck it fail and do something else.  People who are willing to work and succede at things may not have a 150 IQ but it is a lot better than someone with a 135 IQ who is lazy and doesn't put forth any effort. He was not a hard worker - he copied other peoples work when he could - the tutoring was a joke and enabled him to just get by. He was using up someone with potential's place at the university.

Then why didn't you say that in the first place?

Quoted: Quoted: I'm just saying that you don't have to be real bright to be a pilot - average/below-average intelligence will do. Really? This may have been true back in the past, maybe several decades ago, but today it's not true as another poster pointed out.

Yep, just about every pilot I have met was sharp.

Quoted: Quoted: He was not a hard worker - he copied other peoples work when he could - the tutoring was a joke and enabled him to just get by. He was using up someone with potential's place at the university. \ So he skated by, probably partied a lot & hooked up with co-eds instead of doing his homework, and now he's flying multimillion dollar aircraft at/above the speed of sound. Jeez, what a dummy. Methinks you are jealous.

Not fucking hardly.

I despise people like him.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Wow Im at a complete loss of words. This is stupid even for academia..... well George W. went to yale, and some would say he has a 4th grade education. So its not too far of a stretch.

Only a pencil necked geek with some jackass DemoCrap Underground brain patterns would say such shiite.

Does that describe you to a 't'?

Eric The(IBet!)Hun

Wow, watch the trolls come out of the woodwork!

Quoted: Wow, watch the trolls come out of the woodwork!

Like termites.