Etait-il l'invité de l'Université et il devrait etre traité courtoisement; ou etait-il tout simplement un intrus qui ne se respecte pas et qui devrait s'abstenir de visiter un pays ou l'on ne repecte pas les dictateurs a moins d'etre un Pinochet ,un Mobutu ou le Shah d'Iran.

je ne connais pas assez le president iranien pour avoir une opinion juste sur son gouvernement ,cependant je pense que les presidents qui critiquent les etats-unis et son gouvernement devraient avoir plus de respect de soi.car je comprends mal qu'une personne qui se respecte vienne chez son ennemi pour etre insulté de la sorte.

Si par contre il a ete un invite de l'UNiversité dans ce cas le Recteur ou le President de Columbia est un malapris qui aurait du etre courtois envers son invité.Peut-etre un etudiant pourrait insulter le president iranien de cette facon mais pas le president de l'université.

Ce ci montre clairement l'education est relative.On ne peut pas etre eduqué et agi comme une brute en meme temps.Il y a certaines règles de bienseance qu'il faut observer à l'egard de son invité a moins que ce dernier se comporte comme un Chavez.Mais ce n'est pas la première fois que les arabes sont insultés grossièrement à New York .Je me rappelle le Maire Giulliani avait fait expulser Arafat du Lincoln Center lors d'un concert.Malgré ces insultes les arabes continueront à se faire insulter à new york.C'est vrai on méprise les méprisables.

Leader met with hostility.

Columbia's president calls Ahmadinejad 'petty,cruel dictator'

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questionned the official version of the sept 11,2001 attacks and defend the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University,whose president accused him of behaving like a petty cruel dictator,"
The president of Columbia University said:Ahmadinejad 's denial of the holaocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant.

"When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous"Bollinger said"The truth is that the holocaust is the most documented event in human history."

Ahmadinejad rose,also to applause and after a religious invocation said Bollinger's opening was "an insult to information and the kwoledge of the audience."'"There were many insults and claims that were incorrect ,regretfully."Ahmadinejad said."I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment,"

But then he said he was defending the rights of European scholars ,an apparent reference to a small number who have been prosecuted under national laws for denying or minimizing the holocaust."There is nothing known as absolute "he said.

he reiterated his desire to visit ground zero to express sympathy with the victims of the Sept 11 attacks,but then appeared to question whether al-qaida was responsible.,""

"Why did this happen ?What caused it?What conditions led to it?he said.Who was really involved and put it all together?

asked about executions of homosexuals in Iran ,Ahmadinejad said: the judiciary system executed violent criminals and high level drug dealers,comparing them to microbes eliminated through medical treatment.

pressed specifically about punishment of homosexuals ,he said :"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country."

Bollinger was strongly criticized for inviting Ahmadinejad to Columbia ,and had promised though questions in his introduction to Ahmadinejad 's talk.But the strident and personal nature of his attack on the President of Iran was startling.

"You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated"Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader's holocaust denial"

from florida today.