Yelling Against Liberal Thoughts

Memories of the Cultural Revolution:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for liberal and secular university lecturers to be removed.

He told a group of students that they should organise campaigns to demand that the liberal teachers be sacked.

Mr Ahmadinejad said it was difficult to alter secular influences that had been in place in Iran for 150 years, but added that such a change had begun.....

"A student must yell against liberal thoughts and the liberal economy," the AFP news agency reported Mr Ahmadinejad as saying.

"A student must ask why a secular teacher gives low marks to a student that does not have the same ideas as him."

Last year, an ayatollah was appointed to run Tehran University, sparking protests by students.

Earlier this year, dozens of liberal professors and teachers were retired.

Comments

[Bob-B]

Will those who favour academic boycotts be calling for one here?