1.0 link 66431 <![CDATA[Ahmadinejad at Columbia]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-larner/ahmadinejad-at-columbia_b_66431.html Like any thinking person, I had mixed feelings about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia on Monday. Not as regards the freedom of speech issue; I'd defend the right of Nazis and Stalinists to speak publicly. But there is a difference between allowing someone to speak and providing a venue and accompanying respectability for that speech, and when someone has more or less openly called for genocide, I don't think that western institutions are obliged to humor him.

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