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emsby
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Posted - 09/24/2007 :  08:16:56  Show Profile Send emsby a Private Message  Reply with Quote
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/24/us.iran/index.html

So Columbia University has a long and storied history of giving platforms to controversial speakers. This is a particularly controversial one, especially considering the large Jewish population of this fair city. However, I'm sort of confused about why people are so very, very upset at his presence here. I think this is a great opportunity for Americans to see how dangerous and harmful religious extremism is... although it may only serve to charge up the Christian Fundamentalists in their crusade to conquer the world. Opinions?
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I.

Gorgo
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Posted - 09/24/2007 :  08:21:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What a great scapegoat.
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Original_Intent
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Posted - 09/24/2007 :  09:36:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Original_Intent a Private Message  Reply with Quote
He's a piece of shit.

I hope the Imperial Knights of the Ku Klux Klan asks to speak at Columbia.
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Mycroft
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Posted - 09/26/2007 :  23:16:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Mycroft a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by emsby

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/24/us.iran/index.html

So Columbia University has a long and storied history of giving platforms to controversial speakers. This is a particularly controversial one, especially considering the large Jewish population of this fair city. However, I'm sort of confused about why people are so very, very upset at his presence here. I think this is a great opportunity for Americans to see how dangerous and harmful religious extremism is... although it may only serve to charge up the Christian Fundamentalists in their crusade to conquer the world. Opinions?


Because the worst of the bad-guys are the ones that don't sound so bad when you hear them speak, and so it's believed that giving them a platform to speak from is nothing more than helping them to further their propaganda objectives.
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