From the
wires today:
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday "there is a need to cleanse the country's universities from secularism and liberalism,"...Iran's education system "has been dominated by secular thinking leading to a loss of our Islamic identity."
This naturally brings to mind the classic post by billmon, "Scenes From the Cultural Revolution", from March 2005.
continued...
Recycling some samples from billmon...
Ahmadinejad:
"The time has come for students not to limit themselves to protesting against thier secular and liberal professors but to shout their outrage at the top of their voices," Ahmadinejad said.
Republicans:
In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicized student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty . . . were pictured in mock "wanted" posters; at least one college said a teacher received a death threat.
Associated Press
December 25, 2004
Posters arose recently on the Ball State University campus announcing that history professor Abel Alves was "WANTED." His alleged offenses include indoctrinating freshmen with liberal books, such as Fast Food Nation, and guest lectures by the Humane Society.
Muncie Star Press
September 27, 2004
Santa Rosa Junior College's oak-studded campus is aflame with controversy triggered by the anonymous posting of red stars and a reference to communist indoctrination on 10 faculty office doors.
The Press Democrat
March 2, 2005
Ahmadinejad:
Students committed to "isolating" such secular and liberal thoughts would receive the government's "full support," Ahmadinejad said.
Republicans:
I have undertaken the task of organizing conservative students myself and urging them to protest a situation that has become intolerable.
David Horowitz
April 18, 2003
Horowitz's organization has published ads in campus newspapers calling on students to report professors who try to "impose their political opinions" in the classroom.
The Daily Texan
March 8, 2004
It is refreshing that conservative students are increasingly fighting back against academic intolerance. Some conservative students at the University of Texas have begun compiling a "Professor Watch List" to warn students about professors who use their classes for liberal indoctrination.
Phyllis Schlafly
January 12, 2004
See also:
"God and Man at Yale", William Buckley
"Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity", David Limbaugh
"The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military", Michael Savage
"Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth", Ben Shapiro
"Godless: The Church of Liberalism", Ann Coulter
"The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America", David Horowitz
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