Columbia professors plan to visit Iran to apologize to Ahmadinejad

10:26 am on January 8, 2008 by Infidelesto

Extreme barf alert…

NEW YORK (MNA) – An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.

Since the incident, the deans and professors from the faculties of history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger’s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.

A member of the delegation, who requested anonymity, said the main goal of the visit is to meet the Iranian president and officially apologize to him. “The delegation has also prepared its itinerary,” he noted.

He went on to say that the delegation also plans to visit Iranian universities in various cities and to hold talks with professors and students, and may even sign memoranda of understanding with some universities. He also said the delegation is interested in visiting seminaries and the shrine city of Qom.

hattip: WZIP 

There Are 4 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Banjo on 8 January 2008:

    Is anyone surprised by this?

  2. Comment by Saul Wall on 8 January 2008:

    No surprise at all. Except that someone thinks this delegation is able to “officially” apologize for someone who has not given that authority.

  3. Comment by Christian A. Beltram on 9 January 2008:

    No one at Columbia should apologize until the Iranian president apologizes for his hurtful statements regarding Israel, the Holocaust and his desire to see America collapse!

  4. Comment by Rudy on 16 March 2008:

    Now is a perfectly good time to cancel all their passports, delete their Social Security Numbers, freeze and close their bank accounts and deny them return to the US. They love Iran, let them stay there.

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