Joe Pitts: “the leftward drift of American higher education has been well documented. On the modern-day campus, nothing is too…”

“the leftward drift of American higher education has been well documented. On the modern-day campus, nothing is too extreme and all ideas and political philosophies are declared equal in the name of tolerance, often producing ridiculous results. The most recent example comes from Yale University. In the name of tolerance and diversity, administrators there have enrolled a member of one of the most radically intolerant and nondiverse groups in recent history, the Taliban. A few years ago, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi was a spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban regime, the same regime that provided safe haven for the 9/11 terrorists and brutally oppressed women and nonMuslims. Today, he is in the Ivy League, a student at Yale. Rahmatullah said it best himself: ``I could have ended up at Guantanamo Bay. Instead, I ended up at Yale.'' Mr. Speaker, we have come to a point where elite universities like Yale will tolerate the Taliban on their campus but will not tolerate the ROTC, political correctness in the extreme. ____________________”