Georgetown U's Wahhabi Front

Note: We wrote about the activities of the Islamic Center at Georgetown previously. This article again shows the ties to islamic terror at the Center. Georgetown is off the rails anti-Catholic and needs to be reformed before it leads an apostasy against the Church. There seems to be no stopping it...

Georgetown U's Wahhabi Front

By Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com 2/22/2008

In December 2005, Georgetown University announced receipt of a $20 million gift to endow the school's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after whom the Center was renamed. The Center's director, John Esposito, has been known for his vigorous apologetics for Islamic extremism, authoring several books prior to the endowment's announcement dismissing the global influence of extremist Islamic ideology. Under Esposito's oversight, the Center has also developed questionable ties to individuals and organizations directly involved in Islamic terrorism. One example of these ties is the joint conference held by the Center with the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) in July 2000. By that time, UASR had long been identified as the political command for HAMAS in the United States, and Esposito's co-chair for the conference was then-UASR executive director Ahmed Yousef, who fled the country in 2005 to avoid prosecution and currently serves as the spokesman for the HAMAS terrorist organization in Gaza.

As a result of the Saudi funding and terror ties, Rep. Frank Wolf last week directed a letter to Georgetown president John DeGioia expressing his concerns as an alumnus of the university over the activities of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the seeming absence of criticism or discussion by the Center of human rights abuses and denial of religious freedom by the Saudi regime. An article by Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project reporting the contents of Rep. Wolf's letter also noted Esposito's long history of defending radical Islam and his vocal support and praise of his self-described "good friend", convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian.

In fact, there is much more for Rep. Wolf and other Georgetown alumni to be concerned about. Since Prince Alwaleed's gift, the Center at Georgetown under Esposito's direction has since become a haven for Muslim Brotherhood-connected scholars and longtime paid representatives of the Saudi Wahhabi regime. Two individuals that have recently been appointed to top positions within the Center, Susan Douglass and Hadia Mubarak, have been active in leadership positions with known front organizations for the international Muslim Brotherhood - identified as such in court documents by the Department of Justice. Douglas, who has additionally been a longtime paid employee of the Saudi regime (discussed below) is listed as the Center's educational consultant and Mubarak is identified as the senior researcher for the Center. A third staff member is Abdullah Al-Arian, the oldest son and family spokesman for Sami Al-Arian, who is listed as a researcher for the organization.

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Georgetown Accepts Millions From Saudis to Whitewash Islam for Students

Washington Times Writes About Saudi Influence at Georgetown

If you wonder what Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been doing since Mayor Rudolph Giuliani publicly rebuked him and rejected his $10 million dollar gift following the attacks of 9-11, this article from The Washington Times gives some answers. He's been buying American public opinion with endowments to major universities, including money-grubbing quasi-Catholic Georgetown.


A few excerpts from the article:

Although few details have been released about how the money has been spent,
at Georgetown, the money helped pay for a recent symposium on Islamic-Western
relations held in the university's Copley Formal Lounge.

"There's a possibility these campuses aren't getting gifts, they're getting
investments," said Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies. "Departments on Middle Eastern studies tend to be dominated by
professors tuned to the concerns of Arab and Muslim rulers. It's very difficult
for scholars who don't follow this line to get jobs and tenure on college
campuses.

"The relationship between these departments and the money that pours in
is hard to establish, but like campaign finance reform, sometimes money is a
bribe. Sometimes it's a tip."

At Georgetown, the money was funneled toward its Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding, which was quickly renamed the Prince Alwaleed
bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The center, part of the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, trains many of America"s
diplomats.

The Alwaleed Center is tucked away in a small suite of offices in the
Bunn Intercultural Center. Its reception area is decorated with blue and white
Pakistani tile, a framed page from the Koran and mother-of-pearl depictions of a
menorah, the Nativity and the Dome of the Rock. The center's aim, according to
its mission statement, is to "improve relations between the Muslim world and the
West and enhance understanding of Muslims in the West."

The center's director, John Esposito, a prolific writer and praised by
many as being a national authority on the religion, was severely criticized by
several scholars for downplaying the threat of Islamic terrorism in the 1990s
when he was a foreign affairs analyst for the State Department.

Mr. Esposito, "more than any other academic, contributed to American
complacency prior to 9/11," Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Olin Institute at
Harvard, wrote in a Jan. 2, 2006, commentary on his blog,
sandbox.blog-city.com.

Ivory Tower Idiots Open Muslim Public School in NYC

ANN ARBOR, MI - Claiming it is nothing more than a thinly disguised incubator for Islamist radicalization, the Thomas More Law Center, a national Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it will represent a group of citizens opposed to the September 4 opening of the publicly funded Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) by the New York City Department of Education. KGIA, which will immerse its students in Islamic culture, has three fundamentalist Islamist imams on its Board of Advisors, as well as other promoters with connections to militant Islamic organizations.

"This proposed public school is nothing more than an incubator for the radicalization that leads to terrorism, as a NYPD Intelligence Report warned Americans just about two weeks ago," cautioned Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center. "Rather than use the public school system to assimilate Muslims and other immigrants into American culture, New York City is doing everything it can to keep them isolated - a target rich environment for recruiting potential new homegrown terrorists and a recipe for a future 911 disaster, according to my read of the NYPD Report," said Thompson.