Time for the President of Harvard to Go!

Harvard President Gilpin Must Resign

The Harvard Islamic Society, representing among of the world’s least tolerant religions, requests Harvard University, perhaps the most prestigious place of higher learning in the world, to ban men from the school gym at certain hours. The request was made so Muslim women might not be seen by a man as they exercise. Harvard University, wishing to demonstrate it tolerance, complies.

In a most stupendous feat of creative reasoning, Harvard University has banned half the student body, based solely on their gender, so as to accommodate a small minority of Muslim women who have had the tradition of cloaking themselves foisted upon them. A tradition, furthermore, that is fundamentally repressive to women, though the victims are sometimes unaware or have been convinced of the opposite.

Bravo Harvard! They can chalk up an A for rationalizing the insane. They get an F, however, in representing the core American values of justice and liberty.  This is a consideration more important than the repressive nature of Islam.  The United States and the West, though our relative preeminence is on the wane, remain the most successful societies on human record. This is a consequence of our Judeo-Christian heritage.  Harvard was founded as a divinity school.  The preachers produced by Harvard made it what it is today.  Harvard and its distinguished alumni were at the vanguard of those in the North who stood up and declared slavery to be wrong.  They did not blunder into perverse reasoning that we should “tolerate” the South’s long-standing “tradition” of human bondage.  Harvard preachers and alumni were once taught to prize and, despite any opposition, promote a tradition in Western civilization of seeking justice for all.

Harvard claims a desire respect the Muslim tradition.  Islamic tradition holds that a women’s skin should not be defiled by the gaze of the opposite sex.  Muslims fear, based on their experience in a highly sexually repressed society, a situation which breeds all manners of perversion and neurosis, that mayhem and rape would occur were women not bundled up like mediaeval nuns.  Were these women at home, I would understand their fears. Forget the men on the streets; they would be arrested by the religious police in many places.

America, thank God, unlike Saudi Arabia, is a civilized nation. Women are generally free from the fear of being groped or raped for wearing shorts and certainly don’t need to worry about being beaten by the religious police if they do chose to wear a T-shirt.

For a storied University of this great country to be pandering to the almost mediaeval repression and prejudice is flat our sickening.   What is Harvard teaching America’s future elite:  That we have no values of our own; that we should jettison our own traditions, irrespective of their nobility, if they offend anyone at all?  By such logic, Harvard should ban beef so as not to offend Hindus, and pork for the sake of orthodox Jewish students.  Certainly any accommodation of Christianity, the religion which provided Harvard University and this country with its foundation, would be out of the question.  

Of all the crazy things I have heard, this is among the top. Harvard prides itself with having an open mind. In this case, it is so wide open that their brains have leaked out. The schools agenda, in this case, is being dictated to by a religion that bonds and enslaves women.  Growing elements of Islam have declared death to our nation and way of life. Worst of all, Harvard has abandoned the praiseworthy values of freedom and tolerance they to profess, at least, allegiance.

Harvard forced the resignation of Larry Summers when he commented that men and women think differently. That comment was apparent too outrageous to be tolerated by Harvard. Apparently direct, gender-based discrimination is not.  The President of Harvard University, Ms. Drew Gilpin Faust, should resign.