|
|
Article: Yale's latest folly.(Rahmatullah Hashemi, Yale University)
- Article from:
- New Criterion
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
One thing Mike Joyce would not have liked is the spectacle of the Taliban's former ambassador-at-large cozily ensconced as a special student at Yale and studying (no, we are not making this up) such courses as "Terrorism: Past, Present, and Future." As The New York Times Magazine reported on February 26, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, who a few years ago toured the world to explain why his government was blowing up 1,000-year-old Buddhist statues, is enjoying life in New Haven: "In some ways, I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." Indeed. The story in the Times maintained an air of neutrality--isn't it ...