French Muslim leader attacks Multicultural Europe as intolerance and political correctness reign at Harvard and London by Michael Hennigan by Michael Hennigan
One example of out-of-control political correctness was on Friday when the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was suspended from office for four weeks by a disciplinary tribunal for likening a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The panel comprising a pensions ombudsman, a statistics expert and a retired civil servant said Livingstone should step down from his duties on March 1st. They ruled that his outburst last February had breached the Greater London authority code and damaged the reputation of his office. His treatment of Oliver Finegold, a reporter for the London Evening Standard, was "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive", the panel said.
On Monday, Lawrence Summers announced his resignation as the 27th president of Harvard University, America's oldest, in advance of a planned vote of no-confidence by academics whose world of intolerence, vested interest and egoism was under attack by the reformer who had served as US Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration.Summers who had made history by becoming the youngest tenured professor at Harvard University at the age of 28, had challenged several tenured professors to account for the direction of their research and teaching. He angered black studies professor Cornel West, when he suggested that the scholar take time out from writing rap songs to do some serious academic work. After some faculty had signed a petition urging divestment from Israel, he warned against the recurrence of anti-Semitism in a new guise. At an academic conference on the under-representation of women in science, he speculated on the implications of the differences between male and female test scores.
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