Originally posted at TexasKaos.com
| Education is the enemy of Fundamentalists. The more you can think critically on an issue, the more you can take a reasoned approach to its solution. And the less control "they" have over you.
If this story doesn't feel too eerily familiar, you haven't been awake the past six years.
Associated Press: President calls for purge of liberal university teachers.
Do these fundamentalists really think they can turn the US back 30 years? |
Apparantly they do.
Associated Press
Tehran, Iran[Washington, DC] -- The [US's] hard-line President [Bush] called today for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, urging students to return to 1980s-style radicalism.
"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the official [Faux News] Agency quoted [Bush] as saying during a meeting with a group of [College Republicans].
[Bush] complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."
The president, in his role as head of the country's Council of Cultural Revolution, does [NOT] have the authority to make such changes. But his comments today seemed designed more to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers.
[The US] retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers earlier this year. And last November, [Bush]'s administration for the first time named a cleric[s] to head the country's oldest institution[s] of higher education, Tehran University, despite protests by students.
[Bush] is widely believed to need to jockey between various interest groups in [the US], at a time when hard-liners increasingly control more of the top rungs of government but still encounter resistance from parts of the public at large. Moderates also still remain in the government.
But today's comments seemed to follow a campaign promise by [Bush] to develop a more [conservative Christian]-oriented country. Since taking office last [2000], he has also replaced pragmatic veterans in the government with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners.
[Bush]'s aim appears to be installing a new generation of rulers who will revive the fundamentalist goals pursued in the 1980s under the late [Ronald Regan], father of the [modern conservative revolution] in [the US]. Shortly after the revolution, [the US] fired hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and expelled numerous students.
Now compare this to the original. Tell me you don't see the similarities.
Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for purge of liberal university teachers
By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called today for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, urging students to return to 1980s-style radicalism.
"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.
Ahmadinejad complained that reforms in the country's universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years. But, he added: "Such a change has begun."
The president, in his role as head of the country's Council of Cultural Revolution, does have the authority to make such changes. But his comments today seemed designed more to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus forcing universities to oust the teachers....
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