[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            TALIBAN AT YALE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the leftward drift of American higher 
education has been well documented. On the modern-day campus, nothing 
is too extreme and all ideas and political philosophies are declared 
equal in the name of tolerance, often producing ridiculous results.
  The most recent example comes from Yale University. In the name of 
tolerance and diversity, administrators there have enrolled a member of 
one of the most radically intolerant and nondiverse groups in recent 
history, the Taliban.
  A few years ago, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi was a spokesman for 
Afghanistan's Taliban regime, the same regime that provided safe haven 
for the 9/11 terrorists and brutally oppressed women and nonMuslims. 
Today, he is in the Ivy League, a student at Yale.
  Rahmatullah said it best himself: ``I could have ended up at 
Guantanamo Bay. Instead, I ended up at Yale.''
  Mr. Speaker, we have come to a point where elite universities like 
Yale will tolerate the Taliban on their campus but will not tolerate 
the ROTC, political correctness in the extreme.

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