Robert’s post below tells of the Islamic chaplain of Harvard commenting that we shouldn’t “dismiss” the death penalty for apostates from Islam. This can come as no real surprise, since that is the penalty as mandated by the Koran. But it should reinforce the awareness that not everybody wants freedom as we understand it. “Diversity” in the sense it is used today is not strength, as the recently coined cliché would have it, but weakness, allowing the importation of ideas from different cultures that are actually antithetical to our own.

Alarmingly, a Muslim student who opposed the chaplain’s statement, and was named in the original Harvard Crimson article that Robert cites, asked that his name be removed. The Crimson has printed an addendum to the article:

CLARIFICATION: The April 14 article “Chaplain’s E-mail Sparks Controversy” included a quotation from a named Harvard student, who was later granted anonymity when he revealed that his words could bring him into serious conflict with Muslim religious authorities.