Yale to Terrorists: ‘We Want to Understand You,’ Says Young America’s Foundation
Young America’s Foundation Comments on Yale’s Official Statement
HERNDON, Va., March 14 /PRNewswire/ — Yale’s Director of Public Affairs and former Ted Kennedy spokesman Helanie Klasky justified the admission of Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Taliban’s deputy foreign secretary, saying that universities “must strive to increase understanding, especially of the most difficult issues that face the nation and the world.” In addition to admittance, Hashemi also received a 40 percent tuition discount.
“How does enrolling someone who defended a regime that had women’s fingernails ripped off just for wearing nail polish and men being bulldozed for their homosexual choices enrich a campus environment, unless Yale officials believe that mass murder and gratuitous torture are desirable?” says Young America’s Foundation Spokesman Jason Mattera. “With those standards, Yale should court Kim Jong il sons, if they haven’t already!”
Young America’s Foundation Program Officer, Yale alumnus, and former army captain Flagg Youngblood had this to say: “That Yale gave admission and a scholarship to a member of the Taliban proves academia’s thorough commitment to moral relativism and detachment from reason. That Yale, in the same breath, would force ROTC cadets 70 miles off campus, while welcoming terrorists, demonstrates the school’s incessant loyalty to anti-Americanism.”
Jason Mattera, not the typical button-down traditionalist, has represented young conservatives on television’s “Hannity and Colmes,” “Fox & Friends,” “Hardball,” “Washington Journal” and on dozens of radio shows including the Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, and Michael Reagan programs. Human Events recently recognized Jason as one of the top young conservative activists in the entire country.
Flagg Youngblood, while at Yale in the mid-nineties, worked with members of Congress and other Yale students and alumni to combat ROTC’s second-class status on many campuses across the country. The school’s unjust stigmatization of Flagg and other ROTC cadets — who were forced to drive 70 miles to the University of Connecticut in order to participate in ROTC — culminated in the passage of the Pombo and Solomon amendments which were recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
Source: Young America’s Foundation
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What’s there to understand? Terrorism has become a way of life to
many who practice it. For some, causing others to suffer brings a
good deal of enjoyment. What else do we need to understand? Those
who seek to physically kill and injur are a scourge to society and
should be dealt with accordingly.
Comment by Allan. B. Colombo — 3/15/2006 @ 5:17 am