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March 20, 2006
Harvard's Kennedy School - In Bed With The Islamists
Topics: DhimmitudeApparently the left is excited over a new article from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government that Charles at LGF suggests will no doubt be featured in every CAIR press release from now on. The article is nothing less than a lengthy diatribe about the Israeli lobby's control of the United States, and our need to have closer ties with Islamic nations. Of course, the school's enthusiasm for closer ties with Islamic nations couldn't have anything to do with that $20 million gift from l for "Islamic studies," could it? (He also gave $20 million to Georgetown)
The American Thinker has a terrific refutation of the Kennedy School's sick piece of Islamist propaganda, and refers to it as a "collection of innuendo, half truths, and outright misrepresentation" that "fails the test of academic integrity and honest research": Stephen Walt's War with Israel (Hat tip - Little Green Footballs)
From a 2004 piece at FrontPageMag.com, we get a sense of how long the Saudis have been interested in American education, and why:
From Riyadh to Ramallah to the Ivy League, Saudi Arabia's "Wahhabi Lobby" is funding the goals of radical Islam and undermining America's War On Terror. The press has reported the Department of Justice's closures of Saudi "charitable" fronts like the Muslim World League, the Al-Haramain Foundation, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and others that raised money for al-Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.1 But the government has so far ignored an even larger network of Saudi front groups working to establish the party line on our nation's campuses. This network is embedded deep within our system of higher education, including many of our most prestigious universities. The Saudis have steadily infiltrated American educational institutions with vast infusions of cash.2 At the same time they look to steer college curricula and public opinion - especially about the Middle East - toward their Wahhabist goals.Read more...Over the last 30 years, the Saudi royal family has contributed upwards of $70 billion to spread its anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda. This sum, it has been observed, makes the one billion dollars per annum spent by the Soviet Union during the Cold War pale by comparison.4 To quote the Saudi English language daily, Ain Al Yaqueen: "The kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz, has positively shouldered responsibility and played a promising role in order to raise the banner of Islam all over the globe and raise the Islamic call either inside or outside the kingdom."5
The new head of Middle East Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stephen Humphreys, holds a chair named after Aziz himself. The head of the Muslim American Society, W. Deen Muhammed, has stated that Saudi gifts require the receiver to prefer the Saudi "school of thought." While Humphreys denies there are strings attached, one wonders how a thesis on Saudi misogyny or the diseased ramblings of the kingdom's educational system would go over in Saudi-funded departments, if its author hoped to become tenured.6
Related:
Jewish groups keep watchful eye as schools receive Saudi donations
Freedom house Report and Saudi influence in universities
Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques
Posted by Richard at March 20, 2006 1:52 PM
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