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Columbia came under fire from conservatives and free speech activists when [[Minutemen Project]] founder [[Jim Gilchrist]] and Minuteman Marvin Stewart were attacked by a crowd of student protesters while attempting to give a speech at the school, forcing them to abandon their speech. <ref>http://www.nysun.com/article/41020?page_no=2</ref> "They have no right to speak here", said one student.

Columbia came under fire from conservatives and free speech activists when [[Minutemen Project]] founder [[Jim Gilchrist]] and Minuteman Marvin Stewart were attacked by a crowd of student protesters while attempting to give a speech at the school, forcing them to abandon their speech. <ref>http://www.nysun.com/article/41020?page_no=2</ref> "They have no right to speak here", said one student.

[[Iranian]] president [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], who had called for the destruction of the nation of [[Israel]] and called for the execution of homosexuals, was luckier than Gilchrist and Stewart. He was allowed to speak at Columbia on September 26, 2007.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/26/ahmadinejad.columbia/index.html</ref>

[[Iranian]] president [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], who had called for the destruction of the nation of [[Israel]] and called for the execution of homosexuals, was allowed to speak at Columbia on September 26, 2007, but also not without much protest and controversy. <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/26/ahmadinejad.columbia/index.html</ref>

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