Few people realize how severely America’s universities and colleges have degenerated.
“Hamas-linked ‘Bridge Initiative’ wants to re-litigate Holy Land Foundation trial,” by Kyle Shideler, Center for Security Policy, February 7, 2020:
The Bridge Initiative, a project of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, continues to embarrass its host, Georgetown University, this time by publishing a “factsheet” in defense of the convicted Hamas fundraising organization known as the Holy Land Foundation.
The sheet is short on facts, and long on emotional appeal. It distorts basic facts about the Holy Land Foundation case, in which the nation’s largest Islamic charity and five of its employees were convicted on 104 felony counts, including providing material support for the terrorist organization Hamas.
While the Bridge Initiative wants to relitigate the HLF case, wholly endorsing arguments made by the defense that were soundly rejected by judge and jury, ultimately what it seeks to do in their factsheet is argue that Hamas should not be designated as a terrorist organization at all. They likewise condemn U.S. Treasury Terrorism designation efforts in general, despite these efforts being a mainstay of the effort to combat terrorism since 9/11.
The Jewish Journal describes the project’s factsheet noting,
“The fact sheet says that Hamas ‘was founded in Palestine in 1987 as a political and social organization, with an armed wing aimed at resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine.’ It acknowledges that the United States designated Hamas a terror organization in 1997, but then states that designating Hamas as a terror group “has been criticized by legal scholars as being politicized by the State Department, and as raising issues concerning due process, equal protection, judicial deference, the chilling of free speech, and having ‘disparate impact on the Arab Muslim community.’”
The defenders of Hamas have long relied on the false distinction that the group has an “armed wing” which engages in violence, claiming the majority of the group merely performs otherwise legal work in the social and political spheres. Ironically, Hamas’ own founder rejected the distinction between armed and unarmed wings, and the organization is tightly integrated. Terrorist activities take place under the direction of the group’s political leadership, as Matt Levitt, Author of “Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in Service of Jihad” has ably documented.
It’s no surprise that Bridge Initiative would be playing the role of Hamas apologist, given that its founder, John Esposito, has a history with the very Hamas network of which the Holy Land Foundation was the prominent member. Esposito served as a member of the advisory editorial board for the journal of the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). UASR, which the federal government described as a Hamas “think tank”, was founded by Mousa Abu Marzook, currently deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau. UASR’s executive director and the editor of the journal of which Esposito was an advisor, Ahmad Yousef, who went on to serve as a Hamas spokesman….
RichardL says
Georgetown is Jesuit. Nuff said…
Northern Virginiastan says
Yeah, what became of the Church’s intellectual shock troops?
beyondculturewars says
Remember, Georgetown covered the crucifixes during the BHO speech. Ask yourself just why would they do that?
somehistory says
And the idiots at Harvard said that the filthy book of islam…they used the other “title” for it…is the best for “justice.”
So much for the guys and gals of the higher education establishment. Ivy League in league with terrorists and their fight manual.
gravenimage says
Georgetown University’s Hamas-linked Bridge Initiative wants to re-litigate trial of Hamas-linked charity
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Despicable shilling for evil.
Dave Lane says
John Esposito emperor Obama’s” fellow traveler” and public enemy number one CAIR is Hamas again again
FYI says
“the alwaleed bin talal center for muslim-christian understanding”
Understanding?
Understand this..{especially naive dhimmi christian academics}
The koran CURSES christians just for believing in Jesus Christ {koran 9:30}
The koran denies Jesus Christ {koran 4:157/koran 4:171}
The koran denies the Trinity koran 5:116{in fact allah gets the Theology completely wrong he thinks Christians believe that MARY-yes that’s right,MARY- is part of the Trinity alongside allah and jesus the muslim:so the Holy Spirit,laughably,is MISSING in islam.The Holy Spirit is the source of prophecy and scripture.The Bible shows the PRESENCE of and confirmation of the HS,the koran shows the ABSENCE of and denial of the HS.That’s one for the Academics to look at..if they are not too busy being misguided by muslim apologists}
But don’t tell any of that to the jesuit in Rome,pope francis:he tells everybody that the muslim pagan Arab god al lah the champion deceiver{k3:54} is the same as the Christian God when it is obvious that is not so.Which means he is not telling the truth as a jesuit would surely know the difference.
islam’s Doctrine of HATE is at odds with the Actual Biblical God’s 2nd chief commandment.
And as for “interfaith”,I hate to spoil a party but allah says NO..
“Oh ye who believe!take not the Jews and Christians for friends.They are friends to one another.he among you who taketh them for friends is one of THEM”
koran 5:51
Any muslim who befriends an infidel is himself an infidel.
islamic apologists won’t tell you that:they WILL most likely be using their bag of dissembling tricks{taqqiya,taysin,Muruna,darura,kitman etc}
FYI says
John Esposito is a professor of islamic studies and his foundation is funded by the Saudis.
How did the professor miss all the egregious errors in the koran?
The koran 5:51’s command for muslims not to associate with infidels,the antichristianity and antisemitism of this plagiarized Arab ‘holy’ book,the mistake about the Jews{k9:30},the fact that allah confirms the Bible as TRUE in k3:3 at the time of writing of the koran but then denies and contradicts what is in the Bible{which he says is True!}in his koran thus showing the koran to be FALSE,the fact that the errors in the koran show that by allah’s own criterion of koran 4:82,the koran must be of human origin{“from other than allah”},
that muhammed does not satisfy the koran’s own criterion of the right to be a prophet as he was not from the Children of Israel{Jewish} koran 45:16
Oh wait…the saudis fund it:that explains it..
Liz says
Is there a way we can use this effort? Would this give us an opportunity at further discovery? Would we have the chance to link a few pieces together to finish the original prosecutions and instead of having unnamed coconspirators get them named and found guilty of their misdeeds too? I would need to dig into this and will not have the time for several days but if someone else has a researched thought on it please share it.
Thank you Jihad Watch!
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
Of course..
These people are like locusts… They never relent until everything is consumed, and then they move on to another host.. This is classic ‘Civilization Jihad’..
somehistory says
You are so right. They never accept defeat…even when the murderous perp is blown to bits because they claim that’s what they wanted.
The hlf was found guilty of funding terror, but as you point out, they will keep trying to get a win out of the case for their “cj.”