For Ahmadinejad-Bollinger, 8 Is Not Enough! Let's Kill All the Jews! Then the Gays, Too!
They are now only memories. Eight Yeshiva students whose only crime was that were Jewish, they were Israeli and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Eight young lives snuffed out by one lone follower of the ideals and tactics of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- a man given the honor of being invited to lecture on the once-proud campus of Columbia University.
Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's Free Speech President, had the power to block Ahmadinejad's speech. But he did not. Bollinger maintained then and has yet to say otherwise, that bestowing upon Ahmadinejad the credibility that came with speaking at Columbia was a price well worth paying for the educational opportunity of hearing and questioning the madman directly.
Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's Free Speech President, had the power to block Ahmadinejad's speech. But he did not. Bollinger maintained then and has yet to say otherwise, that bestowing upon Ahmadinejad the credibility that came with speaking at Columbia was a price well worth paying for the educational opportunity of hearing and questioning the madman directly. So many inside and outside the Ivy walls of Columbia want to believe that the Ahmadinejad speech is "old news." Move on, they urge. Get a life.
The kind of life, we presume, that the eight Yeshiva students dreamed of living -- only their dreams crashed head on with Ahmadinejad's funding of Hezbullah and Hamas and other terrorist outlets.
Ahmadinejad didn't directly kill those eight students, anymore than Hitler personally killed every innocent victim who perished in the Holocaust. But Ahmadinejad inspired the killer and in all likelihood funded him, whether directly or indirectly.
And, so too, did Lee Bollinger and Columbia University.
For all his book learning, what Bollinger can't compute is that Evil has no rationale. Evil knows no logic. There is nothing to learn from Evil other than that it needs to be obliterated -- not invited to campus to win the applause of truly stupid, stupid students and their 'I-Hate-America' professors.
So Bollinger got his 15 minutes of fame and assuaged his guilt by name-calling A-Jad. Whoopee. But the blood of those eight innocent students is on his hands and that of the entire Columbia University community. And it will not be erased. Not in 15 minutes. Not in 5 months. Not in an eternity.
Like the story of Haman, who sought to murder all the Jews of 6th Century Persia, the story of Ahmadinejad and his jackass Lee Bollinger will be told and retold for centuries to come.
That Bollinger is fated to be ridiculed and despised by all good people now and in the future is little comfort to the family of the students who died so that Ahmadinejad and Bollinger might be victorious in the short run. As people of faith, however, we must believe that both Bollinger and Ahmadinejad will get their due in the next life. Amen.
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