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Columbia University Gives Ahmadinejad A Harsh Education

September 24, 2007 by COED Staff  
Filed under News-ish

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Columbia University President Lee Bollinger called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to task. When the terrorist turned President at long last made his appearance at the university, he was introduced to the crowd with a harsh scolding from Bollinger on his country’s human-rights record and his denial of the Holocaust.

Calling him a “petty and cruel dictatorâ€? whose Holocaust denial would only fool the “ignorant and illiterateâ€?, Bollinger said Ahmadinejad was either “brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated.â€? Before he gave his prepared speech to the audience, Ahmadinejad responded by saying those statements were “an insult to information and to the knowledge of the audienceâ€? However, if anyone insulted the knowledge of the audience, it was Ahmadinejad himself.

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