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Video of Ahmadinejad’s Full Speech at Columbia University

By Manila Ryce
Published Tuesday, September 25th, 2007, 5:11 am
Filed under: Human Rights, Society/Culture: Education, Videos: Political, World: Asia, Videos: Debate, World: North America, Economic, Terrorism, Society/Culture, Videos, World Issues, Capital Punishment, Society/Culture: Sexuality, US Politics

On Sunday, President Ahmadinejad said that the American people have been denied “correct information”. Unfortunately, Lee Bollinger’s introduction the next day proved just that. Before his speech at Columbia, Ahmadinejad said, “The US is a big and important country with a population of 300 million. Due to certain issues, the American people in the past years have been denied correct and clear information about global developments and are eager to hear different opinions.”

By passing Neocon and Zionist propaganda off as academically valid points of contention, President of Columbia University Lee Bollinger denounced the President of Iran with an introduction wrought with misinformation and character assassination. Perhaps he thought he was auditioning for Condi’s job. This incident was even more of an affront to free speech and free thought on college campuses than the incident with the tasered student at John Kerry’s speech simply due to the fact that this hostile attack came directly from the president of the university and not just a group of campus police, which you could argue do not represent the academic establishment.

Bollinger was more interested in hurling insults and getting the audience to join him against the speaker than in providing a forum for discussion. He attempted to shape the opinion of his audience by leaving out certain bits of information which ran contrary to his political agenda. Bollinger also stated outright lies, such as the mistranslation that the President of Iran called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, and pretended it was a direct quote. It’s also rather telling that nearly all of the objections posed to Ahmadinejad were concerning Iran’s relationship with Israel, not its relationship with America.

It’s inexcusable for a professor like Bollinger to pepper unverifiable and utterly false information in with true offenses like public execution and the oppression of women and gays. Though there are valid human rights violations to be addressed, it’s safe to assume that the same level of disrespect would not have been delivered to Ahmadinejad had he been a greater criminal like Blair, Olmert, or even Bush. Judging by the applause the Iranian President received from the audience during his speech, it’s safe to say that a fair percentage of students were not swayed by his bias.

The rest of the videos are embedded below the fold. By the way, Ahmadinejad’s speech is pretty boring and uncomfortably religious in nature to our secular Western ears. He does start to raise some good points about sanctions and nuclear rights around video 5 or 6, but the beginning is fairly long and painful.

Bollinger’s Introduction

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Part 2 of 9

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Ahmadinejad’s Speech

Part 3 of 9

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Part 5 of 9

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Part 6 of 9

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Question and Answer

Part 7 of 9

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Part 8 of 9

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Part 9 of 9

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6 Responses to “Video of Ahmadinejad’s Full Speech at Columbia University”

  1. […] Video of Ahmadinejad’s Full Speech at Columbia University h/t: The Largest Minority […]

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    09/26/07 at 7:11 am

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    09/27/07 at 10:13 am

  3. Well said. I hope all Westerners would see Ahamadinejad like you, even thought your are wrong about him a little bit. You are the only one that I’ve come across to see the Bolinger guy’s vaccination, as Ahmadinejad put. Thanks for posting his videos.

    By the way, his speech’s beginning seemed to be boring to certain people, but Ahmadinejad put it very carefully, as he know most Americans are religious. His speech was mostly for the American people and the rest of the world, not for the students at the university. However, he did talk about knowledge and its misuse (US’s illegal military invasions of other countries).

    Anyways, once again thank you for the video.

    ChangBroot
    09/27/07 at 7:59 pm

  4. As soon as I find time, I will certainly watch the entire speech as I am most interested in what the guy has to say. It is clear to me that, while I’m sure Ahmadinejad has a different ideology than most of us, that there are certain key factors that both he and the American people can agree on:

    1-The occupation of Iraq must end, and the country must be stabilized.
    2-Peace with the West.

    That being said, however, I hesitate to throw in absolute support for the guy. (Sorry, Manilla, but this is where our opinions start to part ways)

    Make no mistake, President Ahmadinejad is a Theocrat. He is just as much of a theocrat as the Christian Right could possibly hope for in this country. And if only those screaming idiots would quiet their bible thumping long enough to listen, they would find that much of what the Iranian president believes in falls in line with their own, particularly, for example, when it comes to gays.
    Homosexuality is outlawed in Iran, with harsh penalties for those who break the law. Perhaps that has something to do with “no gays in Iran.” We pretty much know that he’s fooling himself, and that homosexuality is everywhere, (yes, Christians, EVEN in Nature!) The fact that people are too scared to come out of the closet usually means they have a good reason to be in there. His claim is further undermined by the fact that, according to the BBC, Iran hosts more sex-change operations than most European nations, including Britain, which is down as much as 8 to 1! I’m not really knocking it, but rather calling bullshit at his ridiculous claim.

    That’s about as much as I saw, so I’ll watch the rest and comment further. Seeing that he, like the Christians in this country so desperately want, sees no separation between church and state, I’m sure I’ll have much to write about. And to all the Christiano-facists and secularists alike, take a good hard look at this guy’s rhetoric. Theocracy, man! Good shit, ain’t it?

    PapaFigue
    09/27/07 at 10:46 pm

  5. […] Was Ahmadinejad being authentic in his speech at the Columbia University? What do you think of Ahmadinejad’s vs Bollinger’s speech at the Columbia University, in terms of authenticity? Which one is being more authentic than the other? Please let me know what you think. Video of Ahmadinejad’s Full Speech at Columbia University - The Largest Minority […]

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    10/5/07 at 12:49 am

  6. thanks for posting this video i hope all people get aware and know who is cruel Bush Or Ahmadinejad american president fuck america by his ideas war to iraq was a big mistake the time of war was expired people don’t like war they want live peaceful why poeple of america don’t stop this :) you know 11 september was fake for more info plz visit this website http://bushlies.net/

    john
    09/19/08 at 1:00 pm

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