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Deborah Solomon of the New York Times tries to hold Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's feet to the fire, without success. $20 million to Harvard and Georgetown? Sure, but without any strings at all! And as if that Brooklyn Bridge sale weren't enough, check out this bit of fancy footwork, at which Solomon almost catches him:
You became notorious in New York when Mayor Giuliani declined to accept a $10 million donation from you to victims' families after you suggested that the U.S. was too friendly with Israel.By the way, my check was taken to the bank and cashed. The problem was with my statement. I accepted that. Subject closed.
Subject reopened. The money was returned to you. Have you told Harvard, as you told the City of New York, that the U.S. needs to "adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause"?
Let me tell you my position. We need to have good relations between the Arab world and Israel. When I sold my Plaza Hotel in New York, it was sold to Elad, which is an Israeli company.
Doing business with the citizens of a country is not the same thing as believing in that country's right to exist.
We are doing so many things to bridge the gap between Christianity and Islam and Judaism. For example, at my hotel in Paris, George V, you are going to find the Christian Bible, the Jewish Bible and the Islamic Koran in each single room.
That's a wonderful idea, but a luxury hotel in Paris is a long way from Saudi Arabia, where you could surely spend more money on Judeo-Christian studies.
Look. You have to understand that the population of Saudi Arabia has zero Christians.
That's the point. Why shouldn't you should spend your millions educating your own students before you educate kids at Harvard?
Obviously, it could be something we are contemplating.
It could be, but it isn't. Do you think the Prince is contemplating opening Saudi Arabia to Christianity even the tiniest bit? If so, email me: I have some lovely waterfront property that will no doubt interest you.
Posted by Robert at January 4, 2006 7:38 AM
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Amazing that the New Duranty Times would print this. If you read the whole, rather brief piece, the Prince claims not to be putting any money into Iraq. Not directly, I guess, but I'm sure that he and his friends have helped to fund the Sunni insurgency as well as sending young Saudis over the border to help keep things as unstable as they possibly can, both to thwart the Iranians and their Iraqi Shia constituency and to keep things more "peaceable" within the Kingdom's borders. (Fewer jihadists at home = fewer bombs in Riyahd, etc.)
Posted by: waterdragon52![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 4, 2006 11:36 AM
"... the population of Saudi Arabia has zero Christians."
How'd that happen?
at January 4, 2006 12:15 PM
Someone told me that with his $20 million, Al-Waleed also got naming rights. In the future Harvard will be known as "Saudi Whorvard".
Posted by: Malta_1565 at January 4, 2006 1:18 PM
this is too much. He says that he sold a building in NYC to an Israeli company. Just maybe that company offered a higher price than others for the property. Of course, would he let an Israeli or a Christian for that matter, buy real estate in Jiddah or Riyadh, let alone Mecca?
Posted by: Eliyahu at January 4, 2006 1:32 PM
"You have to understand. I am a friend of the United States, and these days to be in the Arab world and to be a friend of the United States is a liability. But nevertheless I say it. I am a great friend."
With friends like that ...
Posted by: MarcH at January 4, 2006 1:47 PM
I think one thing caught the muslim world off guard..
That was the west unwillingness to cave in and allow the wholsale genocide of the jews by the muslim whordes...
now i am hearing a lot of the Usluall BS which no true american is buying
Islam is Peace
Islam is Love
Islam is tolerance..
Now that the morons including irans Thug in chief is advocating genocide and the world is beginning to wake up to this horriffic threat to us all..
Now the prince comes over trying to spead his vile islamic oil money around...
I see a vast attempt to get the Usa and the west to drop its guard down for even 6 months so they can finish their work on the bomb and deliver it ...
We cannot afford to drop ouir guard or to stop resisting the islamic Hydra that the saudis have helped to create..
Perhaps if islam is so peaceful and loving the saudis will arrange for bin laden and zarchowi to come in and bless the opening of a church right in downtown ryiad..
Somehow i doubt it...
Posted by: jingoist at January 4, 2006 8:08 PM
He can take his 20 million and shove them, dollar by dollar, up his rosy red rectum.
Until their are zero bucks in his paws.
Just as there are zero Christians in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: profitsbeard at January 4, 2006 11:08 PM
Is there ANYONE out there who can answer this student of life's (mine) question:
IF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING REMOTELY CARED ABOUT LIVING UP TO THAT NAME, WHY THE HELL WON'T THEY TEACH THIS TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM: THAT ISLAM CONSTITUTES CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MULTIPLE HOMICIDES?????????????????????????
I just don't get it. Not at all.....
Posted by: pythagoras at January 7, 2006 3:39 PM
"IF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING REMOTELY CARED ABOUT LIVING UP TO THAT NAME, WHY THE HELL WON'T THEY TEACH THIS TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM: THAT ISLAM CONSTITUTES CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MULTIPLE HOMICIDES?????????????????????????"
Many Druze who fled Dar Al Islam for their lives and got to America are college proffessors who do teach what Islam really is about, and what it has been doing since the 7th century.
Posted by: Druze at January 8, 2006 12:41 AM
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