Most Famous Yale Freshman Advocated For Execution of Christian Missionaries in 2001

Asked for comment, Yale Administrators said only, "Yes, we know all that. It was at the top of his application form. We awarded him six points for that."

In late summer of 2001, as Al-Qaeda was planning their murderous venture, the Taliban was spinning their "trial" of eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, and sixteen Afghan Christians whom they accused of secretly proselytizing—and who, it emerged, faced the death penalty.

How could the Taliban possibly justify such a barbaric practice? They didn’t really even try. According to Canadian Channel CTV, "Their priority was to propagate Christianity which they were not supposed to do here," as Sayed Rehmatullah Hashmi, an aide to the Taliban's foreign minister, told reporters.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! That name sounds familiar. Because the name of Yale’s prized "freshman" and former Taliban ambassador, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, is a pretty close match.

But it couldn’t be the same guy. No, Yale’s tame Talib is a "moderate", a man who regrets the harsh things he’s said in his past (if not the ideology he embraced), a poor little lamb who "escaped the wreckage of Afghanistan", an earnest family man starting his life over. Yale’s Hashemi was no blustering theocrat, but according to Yale’s then-Dean of Admissions, "a person to be reckoned with and who could educate us about the world.'' Besides, the spelling is a little different, right? It could be some other Taliban fellow, right?

Yeah, it's the same guy all right. He also spun for Mullah Omar and Osama bin Ladin... on September 12, 2001.

Now, what sort of person do you get to do that sort of PR work the day after your regime is proven complicit in the deaths of 2800 innocent civilians? A "moderate" who's basically fed-up with the regime, or a true believer who'll say anything for a cause he believes in?

Why doesn't Yale admit James Byrd's killers in a special program, perhaps a correspondence program? If there's no amount of evil they can't forgive (or embrace), why not vicious race-murderers, too? Surely they can change the hearts of these three killers with their superior progressive ideals.

posted by Ace at 03:04 PM

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