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| Saudi Government-Approved Hatred Comes to Georgetown |
| 2005-12-13 |
| Georgetown Gets $20M Donation To Study Gift Given By Saudi Prince December 13, 2005 WASHINGTON -- A member of the Saudi royal family has donated $20 million to Georgetown University for the study of Islam. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal told The Washington Post the image of Islam has been tarnished since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He is also donating $20 million to Harvard University for the same cause. The gift is Georgetown's second-largest donation ever. Officials said the Jesuit-run university will use the money to expand its 12-year-old Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The center will be renamed the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. [Don't make me laugh!--ed.] The Saudi prince tried to give $10 million dollars to the Twin Towers Fund shortly after the terrorist attacks in 2001. But New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected the donation after Alwaleed criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. |
| Posted by:The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen |
| #9 This reminds me of Lenin's comment about the capitalist selling the rope with which to hang him. Have we always had this many useful idiots? |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-12-13 19:49 |
| #8 Is it too much to ask that Harvard and GTown "just say no, thank you" to these guys? Tell 'em to take their thinly-veiled bribes elsewhere. Canada, maybe. |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-12-13 16:56 |
| #7 Smart move. Let's say each endowed professorship is $2 million. That gives the Wahabis say in selecting 10 professors sympathetic to their cause. Each year, 10 profs can indoctrinate several thousand of the nation's brightest (many who will work in the federal government and politics), write numerous questionable papers and hold numerous "Islam is Peace" press conferences to weaken resolve. The only reasonable and self preserving course of action is the Giuliani response to Bin Talal. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-13 14:34 |
| #6 The center will be renamed the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. We understand you just fine, Princey. You want to waste yer money, no problem. The only people who will use the center are already-muslims and poli-sci guys trying to understand the nature of the enemy. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-13 13:58 |
| #5 Wonder if FOX news will cover this? |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-13 12:48 |
| #4 If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. And the Whores of Academia will line right up... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-12-13 12:08 |
| #3 I think I'm gonna be ill. Forty-plus years ago my dad was denied admission to Harvard. He maintains to this day it was because he is jewish and they had already filled their quota. I'm glad to see that anti-semitism will finally become the official policy of both G'town and Harvard, instead of being an unspoken 'understanding.' |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-13 12:05 |
| #2 Muslim-Christian understanding. How hard is that? You convert to Islam or die. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-13 11:56 |
| #1 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal told The Washington Post the image of Islam has been tarnished since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It had been tarnished way before then. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-13 11:51 |