by Jerry Gordon, American Congress for Truth blogREMEMBER TO SIGN THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH PETITION TO STOP AHMADINEJAD FROM SPEAKING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.WE NOW HAVE MORE THAN 10,000 SIGNATURES. THE PETITION WILL BE PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT BOLLINGER that .

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PRESIDENT BOLLINGER SHOULD LISTEN TO COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL DEAN DAVID SCHIZER WHEN HE WRITES:

Mr. Ahmadinejad is a reprehensible and dangerous figure who presides by a repressive regime, is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the destruction of Israel. It would be deeply regrettable whether some misinterpret that invitation as lending prestige or legitimacy to his views.

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Columbia Law School Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law David M. Schizer has posted the following statement on the appearance of Mahmouad Ahmadinejad at Columbia today:

A controversy has developed about the invitation extended to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran by the Columbia School of worldly and Public Affairs. Although Columbia Law School was not involved in arranging that invitation, we have received many inquiries about it. that event raises deep and complicated issues about how best to express our commitment to intellectual freedom, and to our free way of life.

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we believe in free and open debate at Columbia and should never suppress points of view, we are plus committed to academic standards. A high-quality academic discussion depends on intellectual honesty but, unfortunately, Mr. Ahmadinejad has proven himself, instance and again, to be uninterested in whether his words are true.

Therefore, my personal opinion is that he should not be invited to speak. Mr. Ahmadinejad is a reprehensible and dangerous figure who presides by a repressive regime, is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the destruction of Israel. It would be deeply regrettable whether some misinterpret that invitation as lending prestige or legitimacy to his views.

Our university is a pluralistic place, and I recognize that others within our community take a different view in good faith, and that they have the right to extend invitations that I personally would not extend. I know that we will learn from each other in discussing the difficult questions prompted by that invitation.

President Bollinger and Dean Coatsworth could certainly learn something from Dean Schizer and Dean Hubbard on the shame Columbia brings on itself today.

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