Saudi Arabia Funds Politically Influential University That Promotes Pro-Muslim Agenda

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Is it any wonder that universities have become hotbeds of jihad incitement?

Saudi Arabia Funds Politically Influential University That Promotes Pro-Muslim Agenda

Luke Rosiak on October 31, 2018

  • Georgetown University took $20 million from a member of the Saudi royal family to fund a Muslim-Christian center.
  • The kingdom’s influence on Washington has come under scrutiny following the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
  • Georgetown trains future diplomats and houses experts Washington relies on.
  • Now, the center uses liberal talking points, such as comparing Muslims to DACA “Dreamers.”

The Saudi royal family funded a politically active Muslim studies program within Georgetown University, which trains future diplomats and is woven into the Washington scene from Foggy Bottom to Congress.

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The school’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) is named after the patron who donated $20 million — the second-largest gift in university history, according to its website.

The CMCU houses the Bridge Initiative, which describes itself as a “research project” that highlights “the problem of Islamophobia,” and is led by Georgetown professor and CMCU founding director John Esposito. The initiative’s published works include “What’s Wrong With The ‘March Against Sharia’” and “Why We Should Ditch The Phrase ‘Moderate Muslims.’

Esposito also co-authored a post titled “Sharia: Myths vs. Realities” during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. The post said that “in instances where the laws in place are contrary to the objectives and values that Muslims uphold, they … can work for change through the legal processes that exist … working together with others to introduce legislation and lobby the government concerning laws or appointments of Supreme Court judges.”

Georgetown, a Jesuit Catholic university, has received $6 million since 2014 from Suad Juffali, who “is the widow of the late Sheikh Ahmed Juffali, an extremely important business tycoon” in Saudi Arabia, according to the university’s website. She is now on the advisory board of Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

The Walsh School of Foreign Service, which houses the CMCU, is where many students hoping to go into diplomatic service are trained.

Its website notes that “At SFS, you can study with former Secretaries of State” and access “connections to diplomats from just about every country, and of course, the seat of the U.S. government. Our location gives SFS the extraordinary opportunity for us to engage (and sometimes even influence) the debates that lead to real action.”

Such financial ties have come under scrutiny as Americans have grappled with U.S. elites’ historically friendly rhetoric toward Saudi Arabia and other such nations, following the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside a Saudi embassy.

Georgetown did not respond to questions from The Daily Caller News Foundation about the strings attached to such funds, whether they could influence curriculum, or whether the university is re-evaluating its relationship with the Saudis after the embassy killing.

Georgetown, which is situated near the Department of State and whose experts are frequently cited by groups shaping policy, has received $400 million in gifts and contracts from foreign governments and individuals since 2011, according to Department of Education data — more than any institution except Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University.

The vast majority were contracts, which require Georgetown to do something in return for the money, rather than gifts.

Foreign-Affiliated Funding of Georgetown University, 2011-2016 (Source: Department of Education)
Country Amount
QATAR $332,818,297
ENGLAND $10,967,336
FRANCE $8,397,339
CHINA $8,026,288
SAUDI ARABIA $6,000,000
HONG KONG $5,531,000
JAPAN $5,253,642
GREECE $5,000,000
THE NETHERLANDS $2,935,297
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES $2,933,320
SPAIN $2,204,495
SOUTH KOREA $2,082,926
BRAZIL $2,067,256
KUWAIT $2,000,000
GERMANY $1,390,564
SINGAPORE $938,142
INDONESIA $380,000

Former Rep. Frank Wolf asked Georgetown in 2008 if it had ever written any reports critical of Saudi Arabia since receiving the funds. Georgetown did not answer the question in a statement quoted by The Washington Post in an article on the Virginia Republican’s letter.

Shortly prior, a bipartisan congressional panel found that the “government of Saudi Arabia engages in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief,” according to The Post.

The Saudi-backed CMCU is now working to tie social justice causes with Muslim issues close to the authoritarian kingdom. The Bridge Initiative posted articles such as “On the Intersections of DACA and Islamophobia” and “Mental Illness: A Key Factor In ‘Terror.’

The CMCU teaches the “Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus,” which seeks to “challenge anti-Muslim racism and resist white supremacy.”

CMCU’s website says it “reframes ‘Islamophobia’ as ‘anti-Muslim racism.’ In so doing, the authors seek to convey the process by which Islamophobia functions as not only religious-based discrimination, but discrimination animated by racism as well. The syllabus underscores the institutionalized and structural nature of Islamophobia racism, which begets long-term and systematic inequalities, stigmatization and exclusion.”

It uses techniques designed to connect with U.S. youth culture, pushing the themes using a Twitter hashtag and talks about “resisting anti-Muslim racism” using “hip hop.”

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spacearcadian
spacearcadian
5 years ago

Stop your islamophobia. Mohammad had a dream, he dreamed of an harmony, diverse, plural society with different people, muslims, jews, atheists, etc, etc alll living peacefully under sharia law and islam

Hook
Hook
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

It aint started in 1400 years so it doesn’t look like even happening Tiny Brain.
Sunni and Shia just can’t stop killing each other (which is great).
Can’t see any harmony there.
You’re wonderful Mohammed made a caeer out of dealing out suffering and his legacy lives on today, unfortunatly.
Just ask any Christian living in the Middle East about the Diversity of Islam.
You’re a lying piece of sh#t just like the other 1.4 billion of you grubs.
You are one sick puppy

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

Baaaa, baaaa, the goats are calling, time to go copulate and keep them quiet goat boy.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

You will make a fine eunuch and slave once the world wakes up to what islam really is, your day is coming to reap what your people have sown.

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

I too have a dream camel kisser, it involves “pretty maids” all in a row going black in the sun but next time it’s going to be involving the knuckle dragging Islamo fascists instead of innocent decent people.

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

Practising your lies again?

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
5 years ago

Why wouldn’t they? Saudi Arabia is an Islamic dictatorship that desires to spread Islam across the US and the world. A high priority is to force Islam upon the “Great Satan.”

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.

CNN and MSM canonises Mc Cain while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk

Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

He was exposed in the Arizona Senate primary in 2016 but despite the facts contained, Arizonans voted for McCain over the competent Dr. Kelli Ward

Another reason why the greatest enemy of what’s left of this Republic is the immoral, undiscerning American voter.

We will know the rest of the storyTuesday Nov.. 6.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

Examination of details with minimal research would reveal that Muslim money is funding a whole bunch of American so-called institutions of “higher learning”.

Money answereth all things: Ecclesiastes chapter 10.

James Jones
James Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Qatar 330,000,000 + , 16 other countries 60,000,000. Yes sir, how high sir !!

” For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” I Timothy 6:10 But then again, science ( pseudo ) is their god, what care they of the Lord.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

…and their strategy is working very well. Just look at what Universities are producing in these days.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

More of the Arabs’ religious poison tainting our democracy….

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

With friends like this, who needs enemies? The Arabs are simply serial deceivers…

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

We should NEVER allow FOREIGN MONEY In our education. Ever! Georgetown and Harvard each got 20 million. They see this as an opportunity to brain wash what they think is our elite that will be in future power positions.

A look at some of the ties Harvard and MIT have with Saudi Arabia
October 25, 2018

Harvard and MIT are reexamining their relationships with Saudi Arabia following the death
of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Here’s a look at some of the ties the universities have with Saudi Arabia:

■$25 million: Money MIT has accepted from Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, since 2012. The money was used to launch the MIT Energy Initiative.

■$20 million: Money Harvard accepted from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the cousin of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, in 2005. The money launched the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.

■$5 million: Amount donated by Alwaleed to the Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research, which supports biomedical research and academic programs in the Middle East.

■Ibn Khaldun fellowship at MIT: The fellowship is substantially funded by Saudi Aramco and has brought 27 Saudi women scientists to the university for postdoctoral research.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/25/harvard-mit-benefit-from-saudi-arabia-ties/1ABdLIK7KSWCM5EmTwQjhP/story.html

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago

Having read this article and pooked onto three of the links {to the Bridge Initiative}, I’m horrified.

I urge readers to study this article and “read between the lines” remembering the terrorist events in recent years and referencing against the mandate to deceive the kuffar in his dar – el – Harb using the Islamic sophistry we know about.

What I take from this article in a nutshell is this, our democratic vote once in a while seems not to be the prime mover in changing the political elites minds and policy direction as we thought, but only as a final “backstop” or last ditch effort to stop these educational elites taking others money to undermine our societies by undermining the will to resist the “inevitable” march of mass immigration and Islamification with the imposition of elements of sharia.

To me, our votes seem to be a “nuisance” to be explained away by the “educated” political elites when our votes fly directly in the face of their preferred policy and its intended results, our votes are to be frustrated by lies and cover ups.

I have taken from this article one principle message and it’s this, the globalist inclined world government elites ruling us by deception have a policy they follow which they sometimes fail to properly hide, it’s shut up, pay up and do as you’re told.

The “proles” are revolting.

I’m not having it.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

The elites we have grown to despise are bought and paid for. They finance their campaigns and lives.
They tell us one thing running for office and always have a convenient excuse when positioned NOT to act on it and do the opposite. They are also very sneaky. They don’t expect you to be paying attention either. They think you are irrelevant and dumber than a brick. They have nothing but contempt for you as a voter or an every day citizen.

Greg Lammers
Greg Lammers
5 years ago

Islamic indoctrination in schools promote ‘education jihad’ and ‘political jihad,’ two of the eight types of jihad. The other six are, ‘population jihad,’ ‘media jihad,’ ‘economic jihad,’ ‘physical jihad,’ ‘legal jihad,’ and ‘humanitarian jihad.’

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago
Reply to  Greg Lammers

You missed out rape jihad.
It seems to be growing in popularity, just take a look at britain and europe.

Greg Lammers
Greg Lammers
5 years ago

That would be under ‘physical jihad.’

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago
Reply to  Greg Lammers

I think it’s so prevelant that it deserves it’s own category…

Greg Lammers
Greg Lammers
5 years ago

‘Physical jihad’ includes death by beheading, defenestration, rape, cutting off of limbs, torture, death by firearms, crushing, burning, whipping, acid attacks, knifings, bombings, using vehicles as weapons, etc., all to induce fear, leading to eventual total subjugation of the kafir. Islam is… the world’s deadliest political death cult, and people just don’t seem to know its abject history.

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago
Reply to  Greg Lammers

I’m well aware of all that, and more.
But I’m sure I read somewhere that the moslem scum that commit it are calling it ‘rape-jihad’. It now seems to have a category all of its own…

Kristi17
Kristi17
5 years ago

Shameful of these muslims and muslim brotherhood members of Saudi Arabia!! They are all Anti-Christian and Jewish People / Anti-Israel-Yisrael / Anti-Zionism / Antisemitism / Anti-USA Capitalism and Constitution!!

The evil / satanic / demonic Saudi Arabia has evil sharia law and so does Turkey!!

The FALSE PAGANISM OCCULT-IDEOLOGY of islam is NOT a religion PERIOD and it was created by a False Prophet muhammad!!

The FALSE PAGANISM OCCULT-IDEOLOGY of islam and their STRUGGLE ( Jihad, islam ), is the same as STRUGGLE ( Mein Kampf NAZI Germany )!! Thus all muslims are NAZIS!!

Only Devout Judaism and Christianity is Right as we have the same ONE TRUE GOD THE HEAVENLY FATHER who art in Heaven Above!!

United We Stand with Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America, Divided We FALL!!
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Please Pray for the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and our Christian Earth Everyday!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

I am Pro-Israel-Yisrael / Pro-Zionism / Pro-Christian and Jewish People / Pro-USA Capitalism and Constitution / PRO-LIFE!!

Happy Shabbat Shalom ( Peaceful Sabbath ) Everyone Forevermore!!

Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ), YSIC o/

Kristi Ann

hopespringseternal
hopespringseternal
5 years ago

If anyone is reading international news, you/we will see a clear pattern of muslim/islamic influence
in every country in the developed, western societies. Saudi Arabia is behind most of it financially.
I know for fact that 99% of the mosques in Sweden is financed by Saudi Arabia. Very, very
nefarious. While they are pretending to be such good friends with the United States and the
European countries, they are secretly invading our countries and trying to influence us with
their tyrannical, un-forgiving and inhumane leadership.
With NO worries or considerations they murdered a journalist that spoke up about their
tyrannical regime in Saudi Arabia. Now they murdered two young, muslim girls in New York,
because they wanted to live in a free society (America). It breaks my heart !!!

TheTruthBurns
TheTruthBurns
5 years ago

At what point does a “Christian/Catholic” University become Non-Religious? The minute they start taking Government Funding or Tax Exemptions. Very few of these Universities are “Christian” – More like Socialism Lite. Don’t waste your money or your kid’s Minds on these Dumps of Lower Unlearning. Socialislam is the New “ism” – just like Jism.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago

This must stop!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

US institutions of “higher learning” where the dissemination of propaganda as fact is a service provided to the highest bidder. At UCLA (spit), a Turkish muslum professor of “history” regularly denied the Armenian genocide ever happened. By chance I took his class covering this exact period in Turkish history and not only did he never even mention the Armenian Genocide but his textbook didn’t either and the UCLA “history” department, UCLA administration and UC administration had absolutely no problems w/this lie being promulgated as fact in their university (or should that be universities)? Apparently at some point Armenians took exception w/this lie and blew up the good muslum professor’s home — unfortunately he wasn’t home at the time.

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