hahahahaha http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_university_purge_5&printer=1 Iranian president wants to purge profs By NASSER KARIMI 45 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. Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers earlier this year. And last November, Ahmadinejad's administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country's oldest institution of higher education, Tehran University, despite protests by students. Ahmadinejad is widely believed to need to jockey between various interest groups in Iran, at a time when hard-liners increasingly control more of the top rungs of government but still encounter resistance from parts of the public at large. Moderates also still remain in the government. But Tuesday's comments seemed to follow a campaign promise by Ahmadinejad to develop a more Islamic-oriented country. Since taking office last August, he has also replaced pragmatic veterans in the government with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners. Ahmadinejad's aim appears to be installing a new generation of rulers who will revive the fundamentalist goals pursued in the 1980s under the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Shortly after the revolution, Iran fired hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and expelled numerous students.
This is an ominous step. The first people that are killed before a government becomes completely totalitarian are the elite intellectuals. It happened in Russia, China, Korea, etc...
Where is creepy when I'd love to se him jump through hoops trying to spin this. Maybe Clutch should let the goofus back. Keep D&D Civil.
i think creepy keeps trying to get back in. they kicked out some dude on the rockets board who put these political bs on the team usa losing. i thought it was creepy. part of me says if u keep badmouthing the usa and kissing [insert other country], why dont you just leave? creepy needs to find a nice place in tehran.
You know, this really is unbelievable. I'd like to see the excuse makers for the Iranian regime come out of the woodwork and excuse this. The guy wants to make Israel a parking lot, and purge the universities of secular professors, who just might be (gasp!!) liberal in their thinking. Hell, this guy would think Senator George Allen was a flaming liberal lunatic. (instead of just a racist lunatic) My father was a JFK-Liberal professor and department chair for decades. I guess if he were alive and living in Tehran, he'd have his bags packed, if he was lucky enough to be able to leave the country. Keep D&D Civil.
keep in mind, Pat Buchanon or Robert E Lee would be considered Liberals in Tehran. hell, anyone wearing shorts is considered a liberal in Tehran.
Not a good thing this purging of these professors. Hopefully this is not really happening and hopefully it isn't part of the massive disinfo campaign as the neocons try to push us into another Mideast war. Bush I and II and the rightist have been happy for years to have firendly dictators purge professors they don't like. Of course in this country we have David Horowitz and some of the Chistian Right wanting to purge professors in this country who are too letist or too secular.
im happy if professors who hate the USA get purged. sorry, i keep forgetting those 'death 2 amerika' demonstrations in Iran were contrived by W. I'm blaming W for Steve Irwin getting bit the Stingray too.
Yeah, I want to see thacabbage, tigermisson1 or Sane (Ehsan) defend this or somehow blame it on Israel or the USA.
When Dave got kicked off Top Chef for Tiffani, I thought it was Ws fault cause W doesn't like Dave's people.
The former NBA MVP, who is considering running as a Democratic candidate for governor in his home state of Alabama, also said Democrats have concentrated too much on criticizing President Bush in the last two years instead of focusing on what they can do to improve things in the country. "They're criticizing a guy who can't run again, who can't get fired," Barkley said during an appearance on "CMI: The Chris Meyers Interview," which will air on Sunday night on Fox SportsNet. "So they spent the last two years criticizing him instead of saying, 'Some things aren't right. This is our game plan.' And now we're two years away from the election, and we have no solutions and no front-runner."
Hey that is true, though it is hard not to be critical as dumb and dumber and his defenders run this country into the ground
What do you expect from a man who was an executioner. at the start of the revolution, he personally killed many of iran's brightest and bravest sons. many generals and brave officers were killed by this animal.
Creepies mentality of being a regime supporter is in the minority in tehran or anywhere else in iran. eachtime i go back, it seems the dis-content amongst the populace just keeps growing.
He is a real trouble maker in the area, unfortunately Bush has much less cards to play to handle him after stucking in Iraq.
