Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth

October 05, 2007

Tutu Excluded - Double Standard at the University of St. Thomas

Here is evidence of incredible hypocrisy from the Mpls's St. Thomas University. Ann Coulter who calls for killing Muslims who won't convert to Christianity can speak there, but Desmond Tutu can't. He has been falsely attributed to comparing Israelis treatment of Palestinians to the Nazi's treatment of the Jews. This apparently lead to his being uninvited.
What incredible hypocrisy demonstrated by one of our honored "Liberal Arts University"!
Informed Comment
Bishop Desmond Tutu has stood all his life for nonviolent peace-making and an end to racism. Obviously, he would be upset about the Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians, and has said so. For that stance he was uninvited from speaking at the Catholic University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.


The "quote" attributed to Bishop Tutu supposedly comparing Israel to Hitler and Nazi Germany was completely made up by the Zionist Organization of American (which has a long history of such cult-like lying and smearing) and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency printed it without fact-checking.


The Israel lobby strikes again, limiting what can be heard in public in the United States about those policies of Israel that are contrary to basic human rights norms.


And here is the kicker. UST is guilty of a whopper of a double standard. Two years ago, the university allowed Ann Coulter to speak on its campus.


Ann Coulter once said of Muslims, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."


Coulter can speak at UST. But not Desmond Tutu.

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