The hysteria and the hyena

Last week, Sir Howard Davies resigned from his position as Director of the London School of Economics (LSE). The institution received a $2.5 million dollar-grant from Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation in 2009. The foundation was headed by Gaddafi's son, remarkably a former student of LSE. (see the Wall Street Journal news http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703362804576184773979915688.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

Today, Anna Davis, Education correspondent for the Evening Standard, brought this headline to the hundreds traveling back home in the tube after work: "Two more London universities are linked to Gaddafi's regime". The referred schools are The School of Oriental and African Studies and King's College.

I must say that I am socked by all this witch-hunting thing because of Gaddafi. This is supreme stupidity, a master exercise of cynicism and hypocrisy. Suddenly, all gullible (nerds), well- (ill)-intentioned people found that Gaddafi is a hyena. For God's sake! Has crime not been the fingerprints of his regime? Has dark corruption from oil not been its motor? Has Gaddafi not been an utter enemy of pure Islam? Has Gaddafi not been a friendly friend of all the West? When I say "all the West", I mean all the West. What has been, what is the role of Libya in the UNO?

Hypocrites! How long has Gaddafi been in power? When I was 13 years old and I was discovering the appealing smell of the opposite sex, my best friend D. and I had an acquaintance whom we call Gaddafi: "Gaddafi opened a condom the other day... It is... Kind of nasty inside, you know, kind of sticky...". Even kids had nicknames after Gaddafi twenty years ago!

I tell you what schools and universities must do:

"We, the people of the UCL, as our founders did, do esteem the inalienable law of individual freedom and the principles on which it is based; no human being must be segregated in terms of race, sex or believes of any kind. Although we would like to transform the world in the image of such principles, we acknowledge the difficulties to achieve that and, foremost, its dangers: the wills of free men and women must prevail before any idea, ideology or utopia.

"However, our commitment is to work everyday to continuously improve in the light of the principles of freedom and individual and social prosperity. We might not be able to create the best of the worlds, but we can better off every day. Stunned by the links between some London universities and the despotic regime of Libya, which has ruled and dictated over people for decades with the guilty acquiescence of all, the community of this University will commit TODAY to the following: to review all the current relationships between our school and dictatorial regimes; to investigate thoroughly grants and money and the projects to which it is entitled, and the developments of any family of any dictatorial regime in UCL; to ensure that in the short future we won't become part of a global hysteria and cynicism, that we won't have anything to hide nor to blame for".

What about a declaration like this?

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