09.11.06

Dershowitz on Khatami’s Visit

Posted in Current Events at 11:16 pm by Abbas

Former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Khatami is in the United States. He has spoken at many places and has been a very tough critic of US foreign policy. He went as far as comparing George W. Bush Jr. to Osama bin Laden. He has also been recently invited to speak at Harvard University on, “Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.”

Alan Dershowitz is a professor of law at Harvard University and a hardcore neo-con, pro-zionist, who associates himself with Daniel Pipes (fyi, Pipes is on the record of calling me a “wahabi” even though I follow a completely different school of thought) compares Khatami with David Duke, a failed politician in Louisiana and a founding father of the Ku Klux Klan. He goes on to say,

“Both Duke and Khatami are racists with extremist and violent designs for repressing political dissent and ethnic opposition. Only Khatami, though, has had a chance to put his designs into effect. Khatami…”

Is not that what Mr. Dershowitz is? He fails to mention Khatami’s accomplishments and his achievements, which are ample. Granted I do not agree with all of his (Khatami) views, but we must still recognize that he is an important person in world politics. He was the founding member of the United Nation’s “Alliance of Civilizations.” And on top of that, Mr. Dershowitz supports rubbish like “Campus Watch,” a monitoring system that black lists professors whom are “anti-Zionist.”

Mr. Dershowitz concludes with,

“I only hope that those in the Kennedy School who invited Khatami did so out of a genuine commitment to unqualified open dialogue, rather than the belief that offensiveness to some groups is more deserving of solicitude than is offensiveness to others, or worse yet, substantive agreement with some of Khatami’s oppressive worldview.”

Can someone say hypocrisy?

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for full article “Universities and tolerance.”

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