Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Cornell U. Official Says He Woud Welcome ISIS, Hamas Onto His Campus

Of course, there's a good chance he might not have said so had he known he was secretly being recorded:
A video sting operation shows Cornell’s assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an undercover muckraker posing as a Moroccan student. 
Scaffido casually endorses inviting an ISIS “freedom fighter’’ to conduct a “training camp” for students at the upstate Ithaca campus — bizarrely likening the activity to a sports camp. 
Is it OK to bring a humanitarian pro-“Islamic State Iraq and Syria” group on campus, the undercover for conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas asks. 
Sure, Scaffido says in the recorded March 16 meeting. 
Scaffido doesn’t even blink an eye when the undercover asks about providing material support for terrorists — “care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics.”
How about supporting Hamas? 
No problem at all, Scaffido said. 
“The university is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them’ or something like that. I think it’s just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” Scaffido said.
Wanna bet he wouldn't have extended the same sort of invitation to Republicans and Zionists?

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