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What's the point of an invitation when you know you hate the guest?
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Re: What's the point of an invitation when you know you hate the guest?
Sep 25, 2007, 14:22
The whole episode is embarrassing. We all know Iran's president is a Holocaust denier, he's publicly called for the annihilation of Israel, his government supports Islamic fascism... so why bring him to the USA and put him in front of an academic audience? To ridicule him?

It's cheap spectacle, it's baiting, it's media hogging, it's a false pretense of academic inquiry, and worst of all it degrades everyone, especially the university president- even if you are virulently opposed to a guest speaker's politics, you don't invite them, and then introduce them to an audience by insulting and demeaning them. What a cheap, cowardly display.

In Muslim culture, it's considered EXTREMELY bad form to treat a guest with nothing but cultured respect. Like I said, this is only going to leave the Islamic world with yet one more example of why the west can't be trusted.
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