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Today U.S. troops guard the entrance to Baghdad University, but al-Bayati, who gained his freedom in October 2002 in a general amnesty granted by Saddam and has returned to the school, says he is trapped in the past. His tormentors are still in power on the wooded campus. And, to his horror, the U.S. occupiers who are trying to reopen the university are working closely with officials there who colluded with the old regime. "Americans are dealing with the wrong people," says al-Bayati. "They were tools of Saddam Hussein who sat on our chests for 35 years...
Graham’s pledge to return the money is a bold one in the current economic climate. Budgets are tight across campus, and the Islamic studies professorship the gift would have established would surely have been very useful for HDS. Despite these circumstances, Graham has admirably shown that freedom from association with such bigoted views is of greater value to HDS than a single professorship...
...assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Freedom House, a human rights advocacy group, reported this year that 144 countries are “free” or “partly free,” encompassing two-thirds of the world population. Only 48 nations remain listed as “not free,” and there is a strongly positive general trend towards greater political freedom. As nations place a higher value on the person, more people in the world live in societies where free press, civil liberties, civic associations and political competition have replaced a fearful vacuum of civil and political rights...
Politically and economically, human beings are currently valued more highly than at any other time in history. The world reality is coming to better reflect the moral value of individual persons. As civilization advances and more people share in the freedom and prosperity of the developed world, let us celebrate these positive trends, search diligently to understand their underlying causes, and seek to accelerate their realization for fellow human beings who do not yet share them...