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Most of the talk was just Ahmadinejad asking questions to answer the questions he was asked. Long winded answers are the norm for college talks like these and they are extremely boring - usually. This was sick on many grounds.

The first thing I found interesting was that he continued to support his odd notion that it is OK to continue to question the existence of the Holocaust. I think his point was that in science you continuously question what is thought right and the same terms should be applied to other areas like history. Well, I doubt he would welcome the same type of scientific doubt about the Twelfth Imam he prayed for at his last UN visit.

Continuing on this science bent he reiterated his stance on his country’s nuclear program. Basically, he is a scientist and he thinks that his country has a right to continue working for “peaceful” nuclear technology. Answering one of the questions near the end of the talk he made the biting point that America has fifth generation nukes, which got lackluster applause due to a comment he made earlier on.

Before this he made this aforementioned “comment” the crowd was enthusiastically applauding the president of Iran. Whenever he would rhetorically hit America he would get loud applause. But then he said that:

Iran does not have a homosexual problem like America does.

The fawning applause stopped after that. They uncomfortably laughed at his comment and he stood up there stunned. I guess he hasn’t gotten the memo that homosexuality is hereditary or maybe he has and just kills them whenever he finds them. Whichever it is I don’t know.

Oh, and women are respected and loved in Iran. Sure, they can’t go out by themselves but they are loved nonetheless. Boys kiss their mothers hands and they are loved.

Here’s how the AP covered the opening of the talk:

Iranian leader greeted with harsh words from Columbia president

Associated Press - September 24, 2007 2:43 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) - Iran’s president has been greeted at Columbia University with some harsh words from the school president.

Lee Bollinger took his guest to task over Iran’s human-rights record and foreign policy. And, to loud applause, he scolded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd) for behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.”

The Columbia president said Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust might fool the ignorant, but said, “When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous.”

Ahmadinejad smiled as he waited his turn to speak, then accused Bollinger of “unfriendly treatment” under the influence of the U.S. press and politicians.

The Iranian president said Bollinger’s remarks were “incorrect” and “an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience.”

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