DISQUS

But what's the oath?

If Abdul-Basser said, even in a private message, that there is "great wisdom" in the death penalty for apostasy and that it should not be dismissed out of hand, then that is a matter Harvard officials should be looking into closely. If he took that position, even privately, he does not belong here.

At the same time, the matter should not be resolved by a witch hunt, but by an examination of his statements in context. Even a qualified endorsement of death for heretics is outside the bounds of the kind of person who should hold a chaplaincy at Harvard; but I would want to see the full message to see if, for example, he was expressing someone else's views rather than his own.

From those quotes, I'd say that Martin struck an unusually reasonable note between the people who want an excuse to regulate the Internet in detail and the Comcast idiots who want to pull the wool over our eyes.