Along with the WSJ’s John Fund, Yale alum and Towhall.com writer Clint W. Taylor, proprietor of the Nail Yale blog, has been doing yeoman’s work documenting the story of Yale Talib Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman and “diplomat” recruited by Yale—presumably to check off “misogynists who will drop a wall on queers, given the chance (Allah be pleased)” on their “diversity” sheet.
This morning, Clint emails to highlight a couple of new developments: 1) a column by John Fund notes how Yale is stonewalling the family of a 911 victim; 2) the Collegiate Network just awarded Yale a “Polly†for the most egregious PC outrage of the year; and finally, 3) to point to a new column of his own, which includes the addresses of the Yale Corporation. From “The Next Step: The Yale Corporation”:
Yale has refused to acknowledge that its decision to admit an official of the Taliban, a brutal, nightmarish regime with which America is still at war, was a drastic mistake in judgment.
The damage done to Yale’s reputation may be irreparable. Yet the University releases only minimal information and instructs even its tour guides not to answer questions on the subject. Rather than taking responsibility for its mistake, or engaging its critics in a principled debate about the decision, Yale decided to batten down the hatches and weather the storm.
That was mistake number two.
Yale is accountable to its trustees who make up the Yale Corporation. Yale’s decisions reflect on them. Recently the Corporation decided, for sound moral reasons, that the University should divest all holdings in companies operating in Sudan. In doing so, it said that the companies involved in propping up the Sudanese government were committing a “grave social injuryâ€Â. But the injuries of the Taliban are also grave, and they are ongoing.
The Taliban’s misogyny ran so deep that they would chop the fingernails from women who dared to wear nail polish. Please join me in sending to the members of the Yale Corporation red cosmetic fingernails, as a reminder of the brutality of the Taliban regime whose minister their university has welcomed to American soil. Please communicate politely and briefly to them that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi has no business at Yale, and he must leave.
This is an issue that concerns all Americans, and indeed all free people. Its implications reach far beyond Yale […]
Indeed it is—and in fact, I have argued that Yale’s decision to welcome the former PR flack for one of recent history’s most oppressive regimes is emblematic of “the battle […] between those who promote liberal founding principles, and those whose learned relativism has taken a turn toward Machiavellian power politics and the attempt to wrest control over metanarratives […while,] ironically, clinging to the liberal label.”
Read the rest of Clint’s post here. And if you have the time and inclination, take advantage of the contact information Clint provides for Yale Corporation members and Trustees to express your disappointment with Yale’s decision to invite into its ranks the representative of a regime who cut off women’s fingers or tore out the nails for the offense of wearing nail polish.
An offense which some Yale feminists, citing cultural differences, have refused to “judge”—a sure sign that the kind of cultural relativism being promoted by our institutions of higher learning has turned the minds of some of our best and brightest into a soup of conflicting PC impulses.
Charles linked to an article at “Inside Higher Education” that had some stunningly brain-dead quotes from Yalies. Apparently we’re all a bunch of God-bothering know-nothings for objecting to the feting of a fascist spokesman.
“I’m really sorry for your husband. He might have a very difficult time with you.”
Hotel clerk: “Welcome to you and your betrothed, Mr. Hashemi. Should I give you the bridal?”
Hashemi: “No, I’ll just hold her by the ears ‘til she gets used to it.”
We know Yale admitted him, but who approved his visa? Who drove his cab from the airport? Assuming, that is, he didn’t do that himself.
Specially the injuries of ex-taliban.
Its been reported that Yale sent out over 19,000 rejection letters last week. Many, no doubt, to students vastly more qualified than Hashemi.
I fail to understand how providing an alledgedly outstanding liberal arts education to this character is going to improve the chances of world peace. I do predict though that Mr. Hashemi will prove extremely resistant to multiculturalist indoctrination! Never even heard of a muslim who bought that bullshit!
Which is more egregious, Summer’s remarks or Yale’s actions?
It should be interesting to see if Hashemi gets admitted to a sophmore years worth of classes at Yale.
And maybe he can teach a class or two, like ”Proper steps to convicting a rape victim: When is the achilles heel too much ankle?” or a geology class like ”the History of Geodes in Stoning Gays to Death”.
Hooray for diversity!
Can there be a better illustration of the Orwellian groupthink that prevails in the academy? I was going to say that this is the ultimate expression of that, but sadly, it may not be.
Yale’s old motto: Lux Et Veritas
Yale’s new motto: Stupid is as stupid does
Indeed! I wonder if Hashemi is elegible for welfare, like so many other undocumented-medicare recipients…because, hell, it’s NOT Yale’s fault they are gainfully, ahem, employing Taliban Man.
It’s the government’s fault for giving him the entry in the first place.
/snark, btw
Yale is such an awful place!!!! They let such assholes in!
Yeah….I wonder who Kerry had to blow to get in.
Actus,
Quick nitpick. The “Taliban” refers to the armed group, not just to the government. The term means “students” since the original taliban were a militia from religious schools.
So, “ex-Taliban” is incorrect in this case… unless you mean someone who has repudiated the Taliban and gone on to do bad things in his new milieu.
Right. He’s no longer a member of that group. At least that’s the impression the NYTimes gave when they broke the story.
actus, what formerly stated positions has he repudiated? I honestly want to know. I’ve heard some cutesy dodges (“he did divorce her”) but nothing approaching “Man, I was a shill for some real shitheels. My bad.”
As a graduate of The Ohio State University (est. 1870) I forcefully object to the bastardization of our noble fight song in the title of this post.
Sorry about the off-topic comment. I just wanted to piss and moan about something without acknowledging the merits of any of the post’s actual content – much like I’ve seen certain southpaws do here lately – and see how it felt.
“Man, I was a shill for some real shitheels. My bad.â€Â
Worked at Nuremburg. Or not.
My guess is that Hoover is an asset, and Hashemi a potential one. Building a decent cover presently.
The statutes thing. He was against that. The Times article that broke the story said he was invited to join the Karzai government. So he can’t be all that bad.
OK, one down… Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. Still not satisfied with Mr. Hashemi, though, if you’ll forgive me.
TW: Beyond. As in, it goes beyond Bamiyan.
The excellence and clear vision of Yale feminists–the sort that accepts misogynistic theocrats in their study group if that’s the price of striking a blow at McChimpy Bushitler–on display here and here.
Since the man is actually in the US and not Gitmo, it makes me wonder if he is actually who we are making him out to be. There is a possibility, however slight, that the dude was not who he claimed to be.
If so, in the world in which he lived, that would be a death sentence. I’m not saying it is so, just kind of wondering aloud. If it IS so, continue to show the hate.
Ahhh, good to know that of all things the Taliban physically tortured, it was the inanimate objects that haunt this guy.
You know what we need to do? Get rid of Affirmative Action and start giving Yale scholarships to neo-nazis. Especially if they apologize for painting the swastika on the house of the black man they beat up. The best way to get rid of racism is to give better opportunities to the racists. I always say.
He’s not the guy in that Michael Moore movie touring the US? Is that what you mean?
We could make them president.
The Actus Algorithm ®
[terse, facile, campy insult designed primarily to evince the pretense of actus’ elite poltical hierophancy; which, because of its paucity of substance, is both intuitively and discursively inviolate]
I would even submit, mon actus, that the idiom you’ve adopted in your commentary here guarantees an adolescent response. I suppose that works for you. Perhaps it quiets your inner-procrustus so you can glibly regard your intellectual opponents as ephebic rubes.
I almost needed a cigarette after reading that…
More please!
I think people here are genuinely smart, guided along by the well-educated host. But smart and educated doesn’t mean right. They can still get plenty wrong. People can also be quite astounding sometimes too. My favorite moment was when someone asked whether I was here legally. I’m sure its how they treat anyone they meet born elsewhere.
actus- be sure to take your own words to heart, buddy.
Correct me if I’m misremembering, but wasn’t it actus who endorsed the smear against Alito based on ancient articles in National Review?
Hmmm…so mr. malaclypse the tertiary, a responds to actus is a guaranteed adolescent response? Super. Thanks for your double edged sword, friend.
Of course.
Smear? I just wanted to know how formative that racism was for him.
Can actus be any less self aware?
“If so, in the world in which he lived, that would be a death sentence.”
Win-win.
Actus, if your inner dialogue is as plagued by sophistry as your outer monologue, I feel for you man. You do well to function.
You think most people have similar inners and outers?