No red lines at Columbia University -Shmuley BoteachThe invitation by Columbia University to Ahmadinejad of Iran brings one of America's foremost institutions of higher learning into disrepute.
Columbia's president defended the invitation as being in keeping with "Columbia's long-standing tradition of robust debate." [T]hat is nonsense.
Does anyone seriously believe that Columbia would invite a politician or scholar who denied that American slavery took place, or alleged that its effects on African-Americans was benign or exaggerated? Would Columbia host a Grand Wizard of the KKK who called for African nations to be wiped off the map?
It is time for the world to boldly sound the clarion call of a new generation: No tolerance for intolerance.
When I read about the Holocaust, I often ask myself how the world allowed Hitler to rise to prominence. But in light of Ahmadinejad being invited to speak at Columbia University, I now get it.
[Jerusalem Post]
Columbia Dean: We Would Welcome Hitler 
"If Hitler were in the United States and he were willing to engage in debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him," said John Coatsworth, dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
(New York Sun)
"If Hitler were in the United States and he were willing to engage in debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him," said John Coatsworth, dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
(New York Sun)
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If Hitler had been invited to American Universities and exposed for the monster he was, maybe the world would have united against him earlier.
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