Tobacco and terrorism.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (among other Islamic nations) donate millions of dollars to American universities every year (Harvard just received twenty-million dollars from a Saudi prince). These donations are often used to create Middle-Eastern Studies departments. We all know that any department with studies on the end of is a bulls**t program filled with leftist nonsense, i.e. women studies, African-American studies, etc. These Middle-Eastern studies departments become nothing more than vehicles for Islamist propaganda and the professors who run these departments are very often apologists for radical Islam.

That's fine. I don't want to stop universities from receiving donations from whomever they want. And if professors want to extol the virtues of Islam--radical or otherwise--fine.

However, many of the same universities that receive donations from Arab states with ties to terror will not accept donations from tobacco companies on moral grounds,

That's screwed up, folks.

Accepting money from Islamist states while not accepting money from tobacco companies based on moral grounds only illustrates how backwards the view of right and wrong are at the university.

I find nothing wrong with accepting money from so-called Big Tobacco even if this money goes into research on lung cancer or the effects of second-hand smoke. Why is it if the American Lung Association produces a study on tobacco it's deemed legit but if RJ Reynolds does the same, the study is tainted?

Because, you say, RJ Reynolds has an agenda.

The American Lung Association doesn't have an agenda? Are you high? Their agenda consists of bilking literally billions of dollars through legal terrorism (lawsuits)out of tobacco companies.

It seems to me studies produced by the American Lung Association should be at least as suspect as those produced by tobacco companies.

I don't smoke, I never have. It's a filthy habit, I don't like it. But the hysteria over smoking (especially second-hand smoke) is silly. What we need is some hysteria--just a little--over real threats like state-sponsored terrorism. Let's stop worrying about tobacco donations to colleges and start worrying about the Islamist propaganda being pushed by leftist universities.