Columbia University invites Iran's President to speak and then insults him during the introduction?

Is this the way we let other countries express their freedom of speech?
Columbia University invites Iran's President to speak and then insults him during the introduction?
If the University invited him then it should extend to him the courtesy due to a guest however abhorrent his views may be to many. If it could not do that it should not have invited him.
Reply:Oh, I get it now: Ahmadinejad should be able to insult Americans while standing before the UN, or before our students at a major university, but we should treat him with the utmost respect. That makes sense how ... ? Report Abuse

Reply:President Ahmadinejad was told beforehand that the University had some difficult questions for him. The President was also told that he would receive no support from the listeners gathered there that day. The fact that he chose to show up means he felt any possible insults that would be hurled at him were outweighed by the chance to speak to the American people.
Reply:Columbia's president was bowing to public pressure. I'd love to know how many alumina canceled their gifts or threaten. As much as I disagree with Iran's president. I thought it pretty rude as well. I think he could have done the same thing in a more subtle way because M.A. was not going to pay any attention to it and actually turned it against him. After all no one has said the guy is not smart.
Reply:Yeah, that was rude... The truth often is.
Reply:When your guest is going to deny that a holocaust ever took place with the Jews, but claims his people have suffered years of holocaust, I suppose you expect everyone to stand by and listen intently.


Like any political figure in any nation ever tells the truth.


We all know that the leaders of these countries spew forth lies faster than our auto makers can produce cars, so I'd never expect to hear anything that even resembles a truth.


As far as insults go, I guess you didn't hear what the Iranian leader had to say about the US, or any other nation that actually elects its leaders, but I guess that he was speaking the truth then.





By the way though, didn't he still have the opportunity to make his speech? You've never heard anyone insult one of our American leaders?


That's why teachers in this nation should still be allowed to "knock" these students back to consciousness, because apparently they're still sleeping through everything.....
Reply:That guy took so much heat for inviting Ahmandinijad that he did what he had to do to save his job. By the way, he should still be fired in my opinion.
Reply:The United States has always been an environment of hypocrisy. Land of the free yet it was stolen from it's rightful owners. Slavery is abolished yet people are homeless and at the mercy of a new master. Master of poverty. It would be nice if the US had an open mind on world politics and took in account the cultures of other societies before jumping the gun with their assumptions. It really is too bad that we will probably go to war with Iran because of our ignorant, arrogant and pompous demeanor.





Please do not take these words the wrong way. I love America! I just know that we could be a better world leader and role model.





Vaya Con Dios!