Hat tip Washington Free Beacon
Another controversial speaker was scheduled to speak yesterday at Yale. This is a man who has called for the killing of US troops in the Middle East. He is a Tunisian by the name of Sheikh Rachid al-Ghannouchi
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/yale-to-host-radical-terror-sheikh-who-advocated-killing-of-u-s-soldiers/
OK. It's free speech. Yet this once again points out the kind of voices that academia prefers to listen to. You can't bring in, say an Israeli ambassador to speak without the event being disrupted as UC Irvine learned in 2010. One also has to ask why the US gives a visa to one who has made the statements attributed to al-Ghannouchi.
As of this writing, I don't see any after-the fact reporting from the Yale Daily News or other sources, but here is the announcement from the Yale Law School:
http://www.law.yale.edu/news/18785.htm
Note there is not one mention of the controversial statements reportedly made by al-Ghannouchi. Instead they tell the students that this guy is one of the world's most influential Muslim thinkers.
So is Yusuf al Qaradawi. There doesn't seem to be much difference between them.
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