Post by thebin on Mar 11, 2008 17:48:53 GMT -5
You want to know why it bothers me so much. Fair enough.
It ain't because someone might not be able to use that gym. Its the SHAMEFUL and COWARDLY hypocrisy of a radically secular institution like Harvard to change the ground rules for Islam when it would do so for NO OTHER religion. Its frankly a level of hypocrisy that has no equal I can think of in recent years.
This is a school that excludes ROTC from campus because of the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell Policy, and decides to accommodate a religion which stones gays to death, partially I must assume because the religion isn’t one of those really dangerous western religions like Christianity or Judaism. Cowardly. Shameful. There are simply no more appropriate words for it.
My future brother-in-law graduated from Harvard a couple years ago. He was ROTC and is now a Navy Seal. Although Harvard students do their ROTC training at MIT, I always thought that this is at least partially due to the small number of enrollees at both schools and the practical nature of sharing resources rather than don't ask don't tell. However, I could be totally wrong.
Harvard was very vocal about this years ago being a policy issue based on Don't Ask/Don't Tell...although Larry Summers might have reneged this poilcy before he was witch-hunted out of cambridge.
