[NYC] City Council speaker Christine Quinn called Thursday for the university to rescind the invitation, saying “the idea of Ahmadinejad as an honored guest anywhere in our city is offensive to all New Yorkers.”
Next week Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (his excellency’s blog is here) will be in New York to address the United Nations’ General Assembly. We don’t like the guy either but… See “Columbia To Proceed With Ahmadinejad Speech“. Columbia’s World Leaders Forum hosts. Will someone please ask him to post more?