Is it true that the continual threats to attack from the US and its client Israel have made it harder for dissidents to avoid looking unpatriotic. This has been alleged.
The war in iraq has destroyed the path to democracy in iran. it has given the likes of khamenie, janati and this killer ahmadinejad the license to arrest all opposition under false banner of national security. not only that, it has strengthened the mollah's on the international secene also. now they also control the majority in iraq.
On the subject of ass-backward nations: Rape law rankles some Pakistan lawmakers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_rape_law
Truly depressing. The Iraq invasion was the biggest military mistake by the USA in the last 100 years, maybe ever. Sigh!
Just find some substiture for oil and build a wall around middle east and let them do what ever they want in there. Without oil, who would care what happen there? It is this kind of thinking that have kept the Muslim nations far behind the other countries in term of advancement in technology and standard of living for their people.
I support the purging of professors actually. The more tyrannical these mullahs become to tighten control, the more fed up the people will become. Let them curse themselves with their own revolution.
And the consequences of the invasion of Iraq may be the biggest blunder in this history of our nation, and one of the biggest amongst superpowers in history of all time.
LOL! Keep reaching for the sky...I have a hard time distinguishing between yourself and DaDa; you both are so similar in every way. As for the topic, if true then it should be condemned. I am not a fan of Ahmedinijad's government and have stated so in the past (despite what blazer_ben or DaDa...I mean SJC...would say). Needless to say, academia has always been a popular target by extremist ideologues who see 'intellectuals' and 'free thinkers' as a threat to their agenda. It's true in this case and a few others as well, although to varying degrees. Of course, I hope all of you are as concerned about preserving academic freedom in our own beloved US of A, because there have been recent attempts to 'undermine' academic freedom here as well, both through private and government initiatives; mostly it's done through thinly-veiled attempts to 'intimidate' professors/intellectuals into silence or changing their views.
This is actually not a bad point. There are certainly more and more people fed up with "liberal" professors and their classroom "indoctrination" of students. The rhetoric used against these infidels is not unlike that in Iran. But we profs are really living in la-la land about what the term even means, if you ask me. I kind of agree with Friedl's recent take: Here it is: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/31/friedl
B-Bob, Friedl seemed to be all over the map, if you ask me. On the one hand, he laments the assault on academic freedom for faculty. On the other, he gives a list of examples of what might be described as faculty taking that freedom to the absurd, and dwells more on that than the threats being faced by recent court rulings, which are yet another consequence of the lurch to the right at the highest judicial level, in my opinion. Guess I shouldn't be surprised... it's a classic academic response. I understand his point, which appears to be that if faculty were a bit more rational regarding academic freedom, and their interaction with administration, they wouldn't be subjected to as much criticism. A problem I see with that idea, as well-intentioned as it may be, is the inclination of administration to take a crack in the door regarding "gaining control," over faculty, and then driving a Mack truck through it, with the faculty having tread marks across their chest. A balance is difficult to maintain, and if things are a bit out of wack, I'd rather err on the side of academic freedom 10 times out of 10. I can relate to the problems administration has, recalling the lametations of my father about some of his faculty with tenure being grossly incompetent teachers, regardless of their publishing talents. As a kid, I asked him why he didn't just fire them. He would sigh and reply that I just didn't understand how things worked in a university, but that someday I would. He was right about that! Of course, he was a department chair, which really put him in the middle. Keep D&D Civil.
The more you tighten you grip Ahmadinejad, the more Iranian dissedents will slip through your fingers.
More reason that the molla apologists on this board should be ashamed of themselves http://www.helpnazanin.com/ under islamic law, woman have no rights. islam is still stock in the dark ages. in iran, stories like this are far to common...
Yes, I demand that all of the mullah apologists post their heartfelt apologies to the women of Iraq in this thread. Just to be clear, who are the mullah apologists?
