Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:57:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: FW: Duke's response to Pakistani Medical Students


I think you should follow this up. If the letter is
not a hoax then it is truly disturbing and that
professor must be exposed. Have you written to Duke's?


--- Elizabeth DeLoughrey <emd23-AT-cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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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