Mock Yale Application Highlights 'Absurdity' of School Admitting Former Taliban Envoy
by Jim Brown
April 3, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A conservative group is sending mock Yale University applications to terrorists being held at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The satirical move is yet another protest against the Ivy League school's decision to enroll a former Taliban spokesman as a student. The Young America's Foundation (YAF) has created a Yale application it claims is tailored to the terrorist community. Spokesman Jason Mattera says the conservative group is taking "Yale officials and other liberals" to task for defending the admission of former Taliban deputy secretary Rahmatullah Hashemi, who received a 40 percent tuition discount to attend the school.
Mattera says Yale administration officials are justifying their decision to admit Hashemi by saying that "it's better we educate terrorists than fight them."
But this is "an absurd proposition," the YAF spokesman says, "because, to keep Americans safe, to keep our allies safe, it's better to kill terrorists, not educate them. We don't want educated terrorists -- and even former terrorists and terrorist apologists need to be held accountable for their actions."
The mock application asks the terrorists, as prospective Yale students, to "provide three letters of recommendation from their local imam, mullah, or psychopathic terrorist." It instructs them as well to, "if possible, include personal testimonials of their involvement in jihad."
Also, the terrorist applicant is asked about his "personal outlook," Mattera points out, "and one of the questions is, 'When forced to confront a Westerner, how do you address them: infidel, Jesus freak, dirty Zionist, or unwashed Euro-American trash -- or all of the above?'" He says applicants are also asked to "describe their favorite jihad terrorist attack and favorite jihad beheading."
Obviously, the YAF representative says, the terrorist-targeted Yale application is employing irony when it makes casual references to anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and terrorist violence. Nevertheless, he insists, the satirical application is making "a stark point here, and that is, this is what Rahmatullah Hashemi defended."
The mock application points to the absurdity of Yale's decision to admit the former Taliban envoy, Mattera adds. Another of its sections, he notes, asks prospective students to "elaborate on the relationship between stoning, tolerance, and mass murder while indicating how compassion should be shown in the religion of peace."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
