professors on pilgrimage

		do americans repent and apologize?
		By Kulamarva Balakrishna Vienna,Tuesday,January 8,2008: Iranian Mehr News reports on the planned visit of a group of Columbia University Professors,without approval of their University President Lee Bollinger to Iran, ostensibly to apologize to Iranian President Muhammed Ahmadinejad,who was unjustly treated by Bollinger when he visited the campus in September taking the opportunity of his visit to the United Nations.Winfield Myers of the Campus Watch,confirming the visit feels humliated at the thought.He says =it would be another shameful chapter in the history of middle eastern studies at the Columbia University. Winfield Myers thinks after the nasty behavior to his guest in consideration to the political compulsions of President George Bush, does Lee Bollinger or any one in his behalf apologize to a supposed =enemy= President? Not done.=It is a further evidence of intellectual and moral collapse= says Myers.The Iranian Mehr News does not identify the visiting professors. Text of the report: New York:An academic delegation of Columbian University professors and deans of faculties plan to visit Iran to officially apologize to Iranian President Muhamud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed Muhamud Ahmadinejad on September 24 the Mehr News Agency Correspondent in New York reported.Since the incident, the deans and professors from faculties of history,anthropology,and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger´s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.A member of the delegation,who requested not to be identified, said the main goal of the visit is to meet the Iranian president and =officially apologize= to him. "The delegation has also prepared its itinerary," he noted. He went on to say that the delegation also plans to visit Iranian universities in various cities and to hold talks with professors and students, and may even sign memorandum of understandings with some universities. He also said the delegation is interested in visiting seminaries and the shrine city of Qom ( not on pilgrimage). However, Bollinger has warned the delegation that their trip to Iran should be a private visit and should not be undertaken as an official visit endorsed by the university. Bollinger has so far refused to meet the Mehr News Agency correspondent to explain his disrespectful behavior toward Ahmadinejad when introducing him to the students and professors at Columbia. End text: I am rather surprised at the contradictory wording of the report.Or the visit should be taken as private but apology as =official=!I am aware Mr.American can fall face down on all fours before the =enemy= feet but hold his nose upwards.wah re wah! I am also aware President George Bush clasped hands, and walked hand in hand with one gawd man vote democrat and Custodian of Holy Places King Abdullah as the guest came calling!The photos were all over newspapers and the websites world wide!It was that democratic gawd King,who pardoned the rape victim Shia teenage girl from Qatif being punished by 200 whiplashes under Islamic Law!How warm his hand was, after all he came from sand land arid desert. (end)