Subject: RE: Duke's response to Pakistani Medical Students
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:45:58 -0500


Sounds like a hoax.

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth DeLoughrey [mailto:emd23-AT-cornell.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:41 PM
To: Village. Virginia. EDU
Subject: FW: Duke's response to Pakistani Medical Students


Hi Everyone
Apparently this shocking letter has been circulating on various list serves.
I am still checking to make sure the report is accurate, but thought I would
pass this on in the meantime. Apologies for all the forwarding marks--this
is how I rec'd it. Liz DeLoughrey


>I removed the students' names.  If anyone would like to respond to
>Professor Reedy, his email address is: mike.reedy-AT-cellbio.duke.edu .
>You can cc it to Duke's president: nkeohane-AT-duke.edu .

> Three students from Aga Khan University (in karachi) applied for research
electives to Duke University. the following is the reply from a professor in
the biomedical research department.

> > From: Mike Reedy
> > To:
> > CC: Harold Erickson
> > Subject: Re: SUMMER ELECTIVES
> > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:57:23 -0500

> > yours is among three such message from 2d year med students in your
> > school I have had in the last 10 days. Just in case you are
> > legitimate, you should know my immediate reaction, and the true
> > nature of your disadvantage.
> >
> > Your ethnicity and your age (student age = idealistic) are so
> > similar
> > to those of the jihad-minded terrorists from the schools that
> > nurtured the Taliban and Al-Quaeda that it is not worth our
> > trouble
> > to try to determine if you are a well-disguised terrorist or a real
> > learning-motivated medical student. You may well be innocent, but
> > some of your neighbors are as potentially lethal as anthrax or HIV,
> > and must be protected against. As long as there are zealots whose
> > idea of reasonable dialogue and persuasive rhetoric is suicide
> > bombing, we seem to have no efficient choice but to react with
> > suspicion, which must motivate us to extreme avoidance or to
> > kill-or-be-killed defensive activism aimed at extermination. The
> > problem of such global terrorism, motivated by a delusion of holy
> > sanction for the killing of "infidels", presently comes mainly
> > from
> > your world and culture. You must solve it internally, or face
> > rejection and suspicion such as mine from outside. If you and your
> > fellows do not root out such unreason from your own ranks, you
> > leave
> > it be solved by unsympathetic military violence from outsiders. I
> > believe it can only be finally solved by your internal action, and
> > i
> > pray you can find better and less violent solutions than we
> > outsiders
> > must use. You will then stand forth as true heroes and
> > peace-bringers to all of humanity, rather than as members of a
> > culture suspected for fostering, tolerating and covertly
> > sympathizing
> > with the deluded and doomed pseudo-heroism of future-hating
> > jihad-minded suicide bombers. War-makers are no longer the heroes
> > humanity needs.
> > -mike reedy-
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