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What's with the Saudi millions, Dr. Esposito? Are the Saudis buying influence at Georgetown? Are they influencing your curriculum, and/or what you say about Islam and jihad? Darth Emerson wants to know, and I'm sure Darth Pipes is interested in the answers also, as am I, Darth Spencer.
"Wolf to Georgetown: Detail Use of Saudi Millions," by the intrepid Steven Emerson for IPT News (thanks to all who sent this in):
A U.S. congressman is asking Georgetown University about its academic scrutiny of Saudi Arabia and its use of $20 million donated by a Saudi prince in 2005.U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) wrote to Georgetown President John DeGioia Thursday, saying he was concerned about how the money was being spent at the university's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Of particular concern, Wolf said, was the university's role in training current and prospective U.S. foreign service personnel.
"The Saudi government continues to permit textbooks to contain inflammatory language about other religions," Wolf wrote. "Restrictions on civil society and political activists continue to be pervasive. No changes have been made to the underlying legal authority relating to non-Muslim worship that the Saudis have relied on to enforce these rules. The Saudis have cleansed their own country of religious liberties by severely restricting public religious expression to their interpretation and enforcement of wahhabism."Wolf's letter seeks assurances the Georgetown center "maintains the impartiality and integrity of scholarship that befits so distinguished a university as Georgetown."
Uh, Congressman Wolf, I can answer that one for you right now.
Posted by Robert at February 16, 2008 12:19 PM
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Esposito is clearly a Saudi shill.
Because he just can't be that stupid about the Koran.
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at February 16, 2008 12:41 PM
in my opinion, letting universities take foreign cash. When they have the same agenda as the Saudi Arabians is just asking for trouble. Mr. Esposito, may be a very knowledgeable scholar and a good man at heart. But no academic, that depends on grants, etc.. It's going to bite the hand that feeds them and tell the truth about how evil their provider is
Posted by: doglover at February 16, 2008 12:54 PM
In both England and the States, people are getting interested in the corrupting power of Saudi oil money.
How about a congressional inquiry? It would be a lot better than watching Roger Clemens sweat, wouldn't it?
I lot more important as well, I would think.
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 16, 2008 1:05 PM
One point we need to point out is that not only are Christians suppressed, but there are quite a few immigrant Hindus who work the establishment.
It's as close to modern day slavery as you're going to get, but I remember an article about how the Saudi's destroyed an underground Hindu temple.
It's not just the Christians, people.
Posted by: Blue at February 16, 2008 1:11 PM
While you're at it, get Georgetown to STRIP NATANA DELONG-BAS of that political PhD Esposito got her for her whitewash dissertation on Wahhabism—you know, the one where she went to the "Kingdom" and did her research but the Saudis wouldn't let her into any of Ibn abd al'Wahhab's personal writings, which are all damning of him as a misogynist sadist—you know, the one where she says that Wahhab (who stoned a woman to death his own little self) is really a FEMINIST!!
at February 16, 2008 1:13 PM
Here’s a book I have intended to read for the last few years but never got round to.
“Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude” by Robert Baer.
Has anyone read it and would they like to post a review of it here?
at February 16, 2008 1:16 PM
“Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude” by Robert Baer.
Has anyone read it and would they like to post a review of it here?
Posted by: Odyessus at February 16, 2008 1:16 PM
I read Robert Baer's "Sleeping with the Devil" three years ago but still remember the level of corruption on both, Saudi and American side. How billions of dollars change hands over a dinner. How Aramco pipelines were laid and leading oil companies and their Saudi counterparts get a cut of every contract. Finally, how Islamic Saudis go berserk with their lavish spending, drinking and womanizing from London to Morrorro to Egypt,which are true as in Bombay, India, Taj Mahal hotel does not allow Arabs who have a history of trashing hotel rooms, evem entore floors, wherever they go with their large families.
An excellent and informative read.
at February 16, 2008 2:15 PM
$20M buys you a hate outlet at a place where people go to get knowledge.
That's like running an open sewer in a fine restaurant.
Where's McCarthy when you really need him?
at February 16, 2008 2:20 PM
Islam -the religion of hate- must return and self-confine itself to its place of origin - the arabian desert; its adherents either go with it and remain there or give it up -starting with those now residing in any and all Western nations.
Mekka, Medina, must open fully to all "religions" and cultures starting now - or be banished from all international relations - also beginning now.
Islam is a rabid and violent political movement and at the most a bogus "religion".
at February 16, 2008 2:23 PM
Islam -the religion of hate- must return and self-confine itself to its place of origin - the arabian desert; its adherents either go with it and remain there or give it up -starting with those now residing in any and all Western nations. --posted by TINBH
Amen. Get out of our Western countries, Barbarians, if you can't give up hate-filled Islam.
at February 16, 2008 7:28 PM
More in Congress need to be asking these questions. Saudi petrobucks are contaminating colleges and universities in the U.S.
at February 16, 2008 11:38 PM
Kudos to Congressman Wolf for drawing attention to this problem. However, hopefully he also understands and will articulate that the problem is not only that textbooks funded by the Saudis "contain inflammatory content about other religions" but that the perhaps even more serious problem is content which whitewashes and misleads about Islam, and teaching that prohibits or discourages critical discussion of Islam.
Posted by: Karl at February 17, 2008 12:47 AM
Try this one on for size. In California,
where I live. All 7th grade history textbooks dedicate
over 45 pages to the teaching of Islam, its origins, religion and 2 pages of the Quoran to be read and interpreted by the students. Who in the heck approved this at the state level of the board of education? It doesn't talk about the evil part of Islam, the honor killings and how they treat women, etc. Its thrown in as just another religion, when its a political movement.
Do you think I'm crazy for thinking some lawmaker got money in his pockets to allow this propaganda in our schools? to our kids? We are spending millions in the Iraq war to fight Islamic extremists and turning around and teaching it the public schools with our tax dollars as some sort of nicey nice religion. What's wrong with this picture?
at February 17, 2008 3:14 AM
BTW: what is the problem with Catholic higher institutions?! These seem to have a propensity to ally themselves with major movements -calling for, preparing for in the open, and determinedly leading to genocide of Jewish peoples in particular -and hmm - non-Catholics in general; i.e. VATICAN'S COMPLICITY WITH THE NAZI GENOCIDE- before, during and after IS WELL DOCUMENTED and known despite massive cover-up over the past 60-70 years.
Now Georgetown U -a preeminent "Catholic and Jesuit" instituion in the USA - sends its professors to shill for yet another movement which is telling the world BEFOREHAND THAT THEY PLAN TO AND WILL COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAIN IF THEY HAVE THE CHANCE to against the Jewish people in particular and all other "unbelivers" in general.
We -of the USA- did originally leave Europe (and other parts of the world) to escape religious despotism - and - oddly - we find ourselves faced with it again and strangely (or maybe not so strange) by very similar situations -"religious" depsotism.
Isn't this a bizarr alliance (no?) -history again repeats.
Congressman Wolf is on the track, but I think he (and some others) needs to write a letter to the Vatican asking for some clarification!
at February 17, 2008 5:45 AM
BTW: what is the problem with Catholic higher institutions?! These seem to have a propensity to ally themselves with major movements -calling for, preparing for in the open, and determinedly leading to genocide of Jewish peoples in particular -and hmm - non-Catholics in general; i.e. VATICAN'S COMPLICITY WITH THE NAZI GENOCIDE- before, during and after IS WELL DOCUMENTED and known despite massive cover-up over the past 60-70 years.
Now Georgetown U -a preeminent "Catholic and Jesuit" instituion in the USA - sends its professors to shill for yet another movement which is telling the world BEFOREHAND THAT THEY PLAN TO AND WILL COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAIN IF THEY HAVE THE CHANCE against the Jewish people in particular and all other "unbelivers" in general.
We -of the USA- did originally leave Europe (and other parts of the world) to escape religious despotism - and - oddly - we find ourselves faced with it again and strangely (or maybe not so strange) by very similar situations -"religious" depsotism.
Isn't this a bizarr alliance (no?) -history again repeats.
Congressman Wolf is on the track, but I think he (and some others) needs to write a letter to the Vatican asking for some clarification!
at February 17, 2008 5:46 AM
Posted :
" More in Congress need to be asking these questions. Saudi petrobucks are contaminating colleges and universities in the U.S."
And just where do you think these politicians were educated????????????
at February 17, 2008 2:15 PM
I seem to recall a trip that Henry Kissinger made to Teheran in 1974. He told the Shah to keep oil prices high, so that Iran could afford to buy US arms. Even after Carter handed Iran to foreign based Islamofascists, US leaders and diplomats have kept the arms trade afloat, by maintaining a Saudi market for same. Bush is the worst slave of all to oil patch/arms trade interests.
Posted by: supercargo at February 17, 2008 7:33 PM
Georgetown students, parents and alumni should also be putting some pressure on.
As far as the Society of Jesus goes, what does the "Black Pope" have to say about this?
at February 18, 2008 11:41 AM
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