Ahmadinejad seeks college teachers purge

[maddezmom]

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, urging students to return to 1980s-style radicalism.

"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Ahmadinejad complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."

The president, in his role as head of the country's Council of Cultural Revolution, does have the authority to make such changes. But his comments Tuesday seemed designed more to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_university_purge

[Nickster]

1. Ranting about purging Liberal and Secular teachers from the school system?

How is this guy different from Dubya again?

[MannyGoldstein]

14. One Difference

It's also true that the rubber-stamp Iranian legislature is matched by the rubber-stamp US legislature, including the Brave Sir Robin Dems.

However, the US has a functioning and independent judiciary - Iran does not.

[Nickster]

16. Yeah, but they are working their little hearts out trying to get rid of

that too.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Lynne Cheney, as Reagan's Secretary of Education, would approve.

[neoblues]

3. Just as our own Republicans would like...

to take the country backwards in time by at least 100 years... Ahmadinejad and his master wants to take the whole Islamic world backwards in time (far more than 100 years though). The first step? Banish all this rational, modern liberal/secular thinking.

[Mythsaje]

4. More and more they seem reflections of one another...

Fundamentalists have more in common with one another than with the rest of us.

Go figure.

[Azathoth]

5. Translate the rantings of David Horowitz and half of the GOP into Iranian

and you have the speeches of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad word for word.

[havocmom]

20. Thinkin that may be part of the method to Ahmadinejad's madness

Show, by example, just how radical the American Junta is.

[The Stranger]

24. Indeed, well struck.

[Torgo Johnson]

6. Sounds just like David Horowitz...

Lets do a little paraphrasing, shall we...

Conservative writer David Horowitz called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, urging students to return to 1980s-style Reaganism.

"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," Newsmax.com quoted Horowitz as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Horowitz complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 40 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."

Horowitz,as founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, does not have the authority to make such changes. But his good friend Lynne Cheney is the wife of the Vice President of the United States, and President Bush has also been known to lap up Horowitz's comments much like a thirsty dog does to a bowl of water. The comments seemed designed more to encourage chickenhawks and other brain-dead right wing mouthpieces to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers.

[Gin]

8. Someone on TV described him as "in your face and cocky"

and I thought.......hmmmmmmmmmmm...sounds like shrub.

[meegbear]

10. Great minds think alike BS ...

first thought in my mind.

[Behind the Aegis]

50. The difference...

"The president, in his role as head of the country's Council of Cultural Revolution, does have the authority to make such changes. But his comments Tuesday seemed designed more to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers."

As opposed to your "rewrite: "Horowitz,as founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, does not have the authority to make such changes. But his good friend Lynne Cheney is the wife of the Vice President of the United States, and President Bush has also been known to lap up Horowitz's comments much like a thirsty dog does to a bowl of water. The comments seemed designed more to encourage chickenhawks and other brain-dead right wing mouthpieces to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers."

The rest is speculation, much like the article itself.

[robcon]

7. Sounds just like Adolf Hitler.

"Cleansing" the universities of those who think 'incorrectly.'

[NOLADEM]

9. Hell, sounds just like Conservative Republicans

I hear all the time from the Repukes how 'liberal' professors are warping the minds of our youth with all their talk of tolerance and understanding of those different from us.

[hogwyld]

11. But But But...

Didn't Mike Wallace say he was an intelligent, charming, and rational man?

[SHRED]

12. Iranian president wants to purge profs

Sounds like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a lot in common with those running our country.

It's all the "libruls" fault.

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Iranian president wants to purge profs
By NASSER KARIMI 20 minutes ago

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, urging students to return to 1980s-style radicalism.

"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Ahmadinejad complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."

The president, in his role as head of the country's Council of Cultural Revolution, does have the authority to make such changes. But his comments Tuesday seemed designed more to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_university_purge

[EFerrari]

13. We have now found a perfect mirror for Cuckoo Bannanas!

lol

[independentpiney]

15. i've always felt he's a strong argument for instant karma n/t

[YankeyMCC]

17. This is almost funny

in a way that sometimes you have to see the absolute ridiculousness in real world events to deal with it at all.

So let's see in the post WWII years we fought the "Cold War" against the "Godless Commies" and reacted in part by hyping our "Godliness" - adding "In God We trust" on our money etc...

So now we're fighting religious extremists and Iran seems to be the poster child for them so when will we start hyping and Embracing our "Godlessness"?

Seriously though - what f'ing silliness. The right wingers have been crying for the same thing for years...let's just drop the pretense and start fighting over which end to crack a hard boiled egg already.

[VegasWolf]

18. I swear, I am really starting to disbelieve all this negative propaganda.

I am smelling Bush's breath and heavy-handedness more and more in these articles.

[w4rma]

19. Sounds like the Republican leadership except Muslim, not Christian. (nt)

[yurbud]

21. He must have just read Horowitz book

Why is it the creepiest things this guy does sounds just like the Bushies?

Even that fake story on making Jews wear identifying clothing, if you changed "Jew" to "Muslim" or "illegal immigrant" you could imagine Rush Limbaugh or someone on Fox actually saying that.

[Ignacio Upton]

41. Because Ahmadinejad is their ideological counter-part

The only difference is that he's Muslim, and that he wants to turn the clock back to the Middle Ages, where as the Bushies just want to turn it back to the Guilded Age. I nominate Ahmadinejad for a special international edition of the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

[WhiteTara]

22. the cleansing of the intellectuals

is always a bad sign. Look for a huge wave of emigrants from Iran to other parts of the world.

[yurbud]

23. Someone should do an Ahmadinejad or Bush quiz

Problem is, Ahmadinejad translated from Iranian would be more grammatically correct than Bush (unless he was also translated):

"We cannot wait for the mafeance of totalrotarian regimes to attack us between our shores while our pants are down, which is a way of saying 'by surprise.'"

[applegrove]

25. It is almost like he wants to get bombed. He is a nut. I fail to see now

acting like a nut will serve him. But somehow he thinks it will. I guess it is the preverbial..appealing to your base and tryiing to bring out the baser instincts in your base... a strategy he learnt from the * WH.

[Richard Steele]

30. Yes, I think you have the right explanation. "Firing up the base"...

...is all this guy really has.
He had VERY low poll numbers, no one considered him
a serious candidate...until B*sh statred the saber-rattling
against Iran, and he started with the mirror-image tough guy
routine in response.

All he really has is rhetoric about the USA boogeyman;
without that he's got NUTHIN. And he doesn't dare stop now,
lest the Iranian public take notice of that fact.

[applegrove]

38. Lots of people are saying the two of them, * and Iran leader are acting

alike and appealing to their base.

[flamingyouth]

26. Wow, that worked so well for China in the '60s.

:sarcasm:

He even calls it the the Council of Cultural Revolution too: a nice touch.

[LeftHander]

27. Not news...old news only circulating for propaganda

purposes...

At the same time WE are firing and gagging our own "liberal" educators every stinking day.

[maddezmom]

34. so he doesn't want to purge the profs?

:shrug:

[Renew Deal]

28. Is Ahmadinejad throwing Bush a bone?

Just another thing Ahmadinejad agrees with the RNC on.

[dogfacedboy]

29. Sounds like the right-wing whacko-fringe on the radio. N/T

[OregonDem]

31. This article is also posted in Freeperville

Half of the freepers are cheering for Ahmadinejad, the other half are like "When they say liberal they actually mean conservative". Ha ha they're so stupid they don't realize he's of of their own.

Lets see he's a warmonger, likes nukes, hates a liberal education, believes that religion and state should not be separated, hates gays, hates rights for women, and hates the UN.

Sound familiar freepers? Hes one of YOURS! Suck on it!

[INDIA]

33. Yet people on DU defend him. n/t

[OregonDem]

35. Yes it sad that some people so blindly support anything

that opposes Bush that they will side with Chavez, and Ahmadinejad. Although it is true that Bush's foreign policy blunders have created a lot of these problems, we should speak with one voice against all forms of tyranny.

[INDIA]

32. That country should be allowed to develop nuclear technology...

Right guys? Guys????

[OregonDem]

36. I agree they shouldn't have them but how do you suppose

that we should go about it?
We don't have the military might to move against them since we are tied down in Iraq. If we put economic sanctions on them they will retaliate and we will have the 1970's oil crisis again, and they will only become more isolated from the world. They also seem to be ignoring our diplomatic efforts. What really is our options with Iran?

[INDIA]

37. Get Russia and China to pull their heads out of their

greedy asses and recognize the situation for what it is. They're pretty much the last two refusing to impose sanctions because of Iranian Oil that they've been so happy to suck up the last couple decades. We'll probably have to cut a trade/energy deal with them, but it would be worth it to avoid armed conflict with a country full of suicide bombers. I don't want sanctions either, but that's the more realistic choice.

[oblivious]

51. Your post is complete nonsense. Very few countries favor sanctions

1. Russia does not buy Iranian oil.

2. Russia and China are not the last two refusing sanctions. Russia has said it is open to sanctions but they must not include force. China would have to be insane to approve sanctions against a friendly trade and security partner.

3. The only other countries who have so far spoken up in favour of possible sanctions are the US, UK, France and Germany. Germany would take a terrible hit, losing 10,000 jobs, so I doubt that they'll go along in the end.

4. I have seen no indication that trading partners like Italy, India, Pakistan, the other Stans or Japan support sanctions. So evidently you consider 5-6 countries to basically the whole world.

So as far as I can see, the following countries support sanctions:
US
UK
Israel
France
Germany
maybe Russia

The following countries have shown no indication of support for sanctions.
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina
Faso
Myanmar
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
East Timor
Egypt
El Salvador
England
Equatorial
Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
South Korea
North Korea
South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
The Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & The Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé & Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

[smb]

39. Sounds Familiar....

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities

What's his FReeper screen name?

[Anakin Skywalker]

40. Heh. Sounds Like Over Here in Amerikkka

where peeps like MAnn Coulter and Rush Limpballs want to purge our academic institutions of commie, godless libruls.

[samsingh]

42. this man is evil as well as bush

[deadparrot]

43. Ahmadinejad tells students to purge universities of liberal professors

The fiery Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, demanded yesterday that students denounce liberal professors, amid growing signals that a purge of regime opponents is gathering steam.

The radical leader told religious young people that he wanted to hear their anger.

"Students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," he said.
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Employing the xenophobic rhetoric for which he has become renowned, Mr Ahmedinejad blamed outside powers for the problems in academia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/06/wiran06.xml

[Erika]

44. The religious right wing universities like Bob Jones

has already done that here. That is their dream for a theocratic America.

[benfranklin1776]

45. Good point.

His demands sound an awful lot like those of David Horowitz and other knuckledraggers of his foul ilk.

[Hissyspit]

48. It doesn't just sound similar. It IS the same demand.

[Hissyspit]

46. Yes, students clearly know more than their professors.

That is the kind of logic that our own American-grown authoritarians/totalitarians like to use.

[Goat or Panic]

47. Awwwww

David Horowitz has himself a buddy now.

"Students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities."

American conservative nutjob or Iranian conservative nutjob? Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

[wellst0nev0ter]

49. Damn, Beat Me To It

Would've said, "I didn't know David Horowitz was the president of Iran." Ho well ;)