Former Iranian President Khatami is scheduled to speak at the Kennedy School of Harvard University on the eve of September 11th.

It seems that the ever-dhimmi academic elites of al-Harvard are shocked and appalled that the little people of the world would not appreciate their open-minded welcoming of an anti-American, anti-Semitic terrorist to speak at their once lofty and respected institution. Especially on the eve of the most horrific terrorist attack in history on the United States of America.

After all, the dean, Daniel Elwood claims it’s all in the name of free speech.

`Do we listen to those that we disagree with, and vigorously challenge them, or do we close our ears completely?” said David Ellwood, the Kennedy School’s dean, in an interview with the Globe.

I don’t know why anyone is surprised. This isn’t new for al-Harvard. Just after 9/11 they had a past president of the Harvard Islamic Society deliver the commencement speech for graduation. This student’s speech was entitled, ‘My American Jihad’. This speech, by this person, just months after 9/11.

Perhaps the elite academics overlooked that they, themselves, have been targeted.

I think al-Harvard can officially be written off as having submitted to dhimmitude.

Among today’s academic specialists who have undertaken to sanitize this key Islamic concept, many are no doubt acting out of the impulses of political correctness and the multiculturalist urge to protect a non-Western civilization from criticism by making it appear just like our own. As for Islamists among those academics, at least some have a different purpose: like CAIR and other, similar organizations, they are endeavoring to camouflage a threatening concept by rendering it in terms acceptable within university discourse. Non-Muslim colleagues who play along with this deception may be seen as having effectively assumed the role of dhimmi, the Islamic term for a Christian or Jew living under Muslim rule who is tolerated so long as he bends the knee and accepts Islam’s superiority.

It’s all about not calling something what it is. It’s about changing definitions. Jihad is just resistance - fascism is multi-cultualism - anti-semitism is anti-oppression of palestinians. Everything is given a term that is something less threatening.

Smoke and mirrors. Don’t believe what you see, believe what we tell you.

It’s about desensitizing us all to the evils of our enemies. It’s a slow and insidious process of turning America and her allies and friends over to the will of those who would destroy us.

And those who would do us harm have plenty of assistance from among our own.

This makes me incredibly sad for our country.

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