http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5316634.stm Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for liberal and secular university lecturers to be removed. He told a group of students that they should organise campaigns to demand that the liberal teachers be sacked. Mr Ahmadinejad said it was difficult to alter secular influences that had been in place in Iran for 150 years, but added that such a change had begun. The move echoes campaigns of the 1980s, when hundreds of liberal university teachers and students were sacked. "A student must yell against liberal thoughts and the liberal economy," the AFP news agency reported Mr Ahmadinejad as saying. "A student must ask why a secular teacher gives low marks to a student that does not have the same ideas as him." Last year, an ayatollah was appointed to run Tehran University, sparking protests by students. Earlier this year, dozens of liberal professors and teachers were retired. But the BBC's Frances Harrison in Tehran says many have found new jobs with institutions run by people linked to the president's political opponents.
isn't there some people in the US who have problems with "liberal" professors too? Seems they have more in common with Iranians then they think.
Re ash1 comments sounds about 'par for the course' I spent over 13 years in Middle East and this pattern of behavior is the norm
Heh. "liberal" professors in america sound more like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than anyone else. 9/11 was an inside job, etc. Generally anti-american. While the term "liberal" is the same, the definition is entirely different. But its a nice try
Actually what you said made no sense if it was meant to argue the opposite of what ferret said. Iran wants liberal professors who are anti-Iran out. Conservatives want liberal professors who are anti-America out. What was your point again?
Iran doesn't want "anti-iranian" teachers out; he wants to purge the teachers who are liberal and secular. He wants teachers who will teach a more extreme form of Islam. They are not anti-iranian as you so put it. Here, our "liberal and secular" teachers, as I said, more resemble the Iranian leader (which you don't even seem to dispute). they are anti-american (again, which does not seem to be in dispute) and probably would like to teach Islam to everyone. There is no real comparison, unless you trying to justify 1) the purging of those teachers in Iran or 2) the anti-american teachers here in America. Or both.
and conservatards wants to purge the teachers who are liberal and secular, too if they could Convertatives seem to want more jesus and religion in colleges, don't they? You guys are always talking about the "crazy" liberal professors and how bad they are
So that naturally translates into wanting more Jesus in the classroom, does it? Against liberal indoctrination equals more jesus. Got it.