http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/islamicstudies/ en-us Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002880/posts A closed meeting called by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) about Islamic studies will take place today amid fears that Saudi and Muslim organisations exert too much influence over UK universities as a result of donations that dwarf government funding. Private donations, mostly to Islamic study centres, are much greater than government funding for Islamic studies and academics are said to be nervous of the threat to their academic freedom. The conference will discuss how to improve Islamic studies in UK universities after the government earmarked £1m in funding following the publication of Dr Ataullah Siddiqui's report... Guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002880/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000754/posts 'Extremism' fear over Islam studies donations By Ben Leach Last Updated: 1:00am BST 13/04/2008 Extremist ideas are being spread by Islamic study centres linked to British universities and backed by multi-million-pound donations from Saudi Arabia and Muslim organisations, a new report claims. Eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than £233.5 million from Saudi and Muslim sources since 1995, with much of the money going to Islamic study centres, according to the report. The total sum, revealed by Anthony Glees, the director of Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, amounts to the largest source of external... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000754/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:54:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997472/posts Cambridge University has been given £8 million by a Saudi Arabian prince to establish an Islamic studies centre. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, ranked in the top 20 richest men in the world, with a fortune of about £10 billion, has donated the cash to the university to fund a centre in his name for the study of the role of Islam in the Middle East and globally. The gift has been recommended by the university's general board and is expected to be announced in June. advertisement The grandson of King Ibn Saud and nephew of King Abudllah, the prince counts... London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997472/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 05:22:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634329/posts Stanford Islamic studies grow too slowly for critics ... Four years after Stanford University announced plans to expand its Islamic Studies program, students complain that its curriculum still lags far behind that of other elite universities. Dismayed by the departure of three key professors since 2002 and the slow pace of replacing them, some Muslim students say the university isn't moving fast enough on its promise to build a world-class program focused on the Middle East. They also seek the creation of a Muslim Community Cultural Center, where students could socialize. Although Muslims make up only 2 percent of Stanford's... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634329/posts#comment Thu, 18 May 2006 13:44:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623656/posts Muslims and Christians Hold Dueling Rallies at RCCApr 27, 2006 8:03 pm US/Pacific (CBS) RIVERSIDE Members of a Christian evangelical group and Muslim students engaged in a brief shouting match Thursday at an otherwise peaceful rally and counter-rally at Riverside Community College. Dr. Robert Morey is the organizer of a Christian evangelical group called Faith Defenders and teaches Islamic studies at the fledgling Irvine-based California Biblical University and Seminary. The university began taking admissions last September. Faith Defenders spreads Christian teachings and distributes literature and videos critical of Islam. Morey held a lecture and rally at the campus quad, which... CBS2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623656/posts#comment Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:32:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594664/posts FIVE years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon, four years after the first Bali atrocity and three months after the Cronulla riots, it has become appallingly apparent that local police are still standing flat-footed in the face of a growing crime problem among some in Australia's own Muslim community. It's high time the politically correct pap that spews forth after every evil global terrorist attack was ignored and real research into the underlying philosophy driving the radical fringe, and its supporters and financiers, was undertaken. A good first step would be to reject... Sunday Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594664/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:50:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581222/posts It is a sad fact that many feminist academics “have adopted a pro-PLO and pro-terrorist line of thinking.”[1] Middle East Studies specialists are among the worst. The doyenne of this camp is Duke University's Miriam Cooke, a professor of Arabic and Women's Studies. Cooke champions what she calls the “production of knowledge,” especially on the Middle East, not to impart accurate historical information, but “to question structures of power.” Middle East academics must admit that they belong “to a power with definite interests in the Orient.” And students should only ask questions about power, not what is actually being said.... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581222/posts#comment Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:33:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578574/posts As a Ph.D. Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape. It's a tough thing to admit because I know on which side my bread is buttered and dropping Islam from the 9/11 equation is dropping my slice of bread butter-side-down. The myth that 9/11 had something to do with Muslims has poured millions, if not billions, into Arabic and Islamic studies. I finished my Ph.D. last year, so all I have to... Capital Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578574/posts#comment Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:24:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564556/posts Providing new evidence of the academic Left’s hardened anti-Americanism and sympathy for jihad terror, Khalil Shikaki has been appointed a senior fellow at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. On February 24, 1998, terrorism expert Steven Emerson testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Shikaki ferried “information, messages and even operational materials to his brother Fathi in Damascus, head of Islamic Jihad. When publicly asked however, Khalil always maintained he had no contact with his brother.” Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564556/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:10:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556680/posts This week, Georgetown University began announcing the Fifth Annual Student Palestine Solidarity Conference on the University’s website using the same rhetoric that Duke University used in announcing a similar event almost two years ago. The Conference is being billed as a testimonial to the exercise of "freedom of speech" and the participants are telling everyone they are "peace activists" even though they refuse to condemn terrorism. And, in true form, Al-Awda, one of the main organizations of the ISM, immediately dispatched an open email to its membership. The following email was sent out as an “open letter” by Al Awda... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556680/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:54:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556075/posts Georgetown U's Terror ConferenceBy Lee KaplanFrontPageMagazine.com | January 11, 2006 This week, Georgetown University began announcing the Fifth Annual Student Palestine Solidarity Conference on the University’s website using the same rhetoric that Duke University used in announcing a similar event almost two years ago. The Conference is being billed as a testimonial to the exercise of "freedom of speech" and the participants are tellng everyone they are "peace activists" even though they refuse to condemn terrorism. And, in true form, Al-Awda, one of the main organizations of the ISM, immediately dispatched an open email to its membership. The following email was sent out as an... FrontPageMagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556075/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:54:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552975/posts Last month Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talat made a serious investment in the education of American youth. He paid Harvard and Georgetown Universities $20 million each to fertilise their ivy curriculum with Islam. It was vital, he said, because "Bridging the understanding between East and West is important for peace and tolerance.” Back at Ground Zero in 2001, Al-Waleed embedded himself with Rudi Giuliani’s entourage. And, as they salvaged 291 intact bodies and 19,500 body parts from the massive bloody wreckage, he handed over $10 million and released a statement. The statement did not refer to the fact that most... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552975/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552949/posts Georgetown University was built with a Catholic and Jesuit identity. This bit of information is proudly displayed on the school’s website. But like Bethlehem in Israel, that identity is quickly being lost to a radical strain of Islam, as a counter-terror symposium has been abandoned and a pro-terror conference has been confirmed. Indeed, one of America’s most prestigious universities appears to be under siege. Fearing violent reprisal from militant Muslim members of their student body, the school’s conference center rejected an educational symposium being hosted by America’s Truth Forum (formerly the People’s Truth Forum), a non-partisan, fact-based organization whose sole... FrontPage Magazine. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552949/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:25:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550338/posts Q: You just gave $20 million to Harvard and another $20 million to Georgetown to advance the study of Islam, and some are concerned that you are trying to increase the on-campus influence of the Saudi royal family, of which you are reportedly the single wealthiest member. I don't have control, and I don't want control. Period. They approached us with a proposal. Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, University of Michigan and several of the Ivy Leagues. [...] Since you're said to be worth more than $20 billion, with major holdings in Four Seasons Hotels, Saks Fifth Avenue and Murdoch's... NY Slimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550338/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548593/posts Georgetown's Jihad By Lee KaplanFrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2005Never let it be said that the American college educational system ever missed an opportunity to promote the aims of terrorists and their allies when it came to money. Stop the ISM has received notification that the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM), the name the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) uses for its member groups in the United States, is going to have its fifth annual conference at a major American university-this time Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The following announcement was put out to ISM activists in the United States: Palestine Solidarity... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548593/posts#comment Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:48:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543337/posts There's one good thing about the news that Alwaleed bin Talal, the richest Saudi prince in the world, just bought Harvard and Georgetown universities -- or, at least buried them up to their ivy in $40 million. It gives everybody reason to relive a McAuliffe moment. McAuliffe, of course, was Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, who, in response to a Nazi invitation to surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, sent back a one-word reply: "NUTS." In kindred spirit, but in a very different war, Rudy Giuliani gave the United States a McAuliffe moment after he realized that Mr. Alwaleed's... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543337/posts#comment Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:40:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541175/posts Waging jihad with $$$s By Stan Goodenough December 14th, 2005 Why would a Saudi Arabian prince give $40 million in grants to two prestigious American universities? And why choose Harvard as one of them? These conundrums had news anchors in the United States speculating wildly Wednesday morning. Fox News’ Alan Colmes suggested that Prince Ali Walid Bin-Talal – who the liberal co-host of the popular Hannity & Colmes show called “a friend of America” – had made the generous gesture in order to encourage the creation of an environment in which young Americans could learn more about the “true nature”... www.jnewswire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541175/posts#comment Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:43:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1539993/posts Georgetown University, the Jesuit college in Washington DC, received a $20 million dollar donation for the school's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. From Wednesday's Arab News: Kingdom Holding Company Chairman Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal announced yesterday his donation of $20 million to Georgetown University to support and expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU). The Center, part of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, is an international leader in inter-religious scholarship and research, in particular Islamic studies and Muslim-Christian relations. The center will be renamed The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. And just who... Marathon Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1539993/posts#comment Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1539487/posts $40M to Spread Islam in US Colleges Four years after September 11, the Saudi prince whose poisoned gift was turned down by Rudy Giuliani is handing over $40M to Harvard and Georgetown Universities. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BOSTON - A Saudi prince believed to be the wealthiest businessman in the Muslim world has donated $40 million for Harvard and Georgetown to expand their Islamic studies programs, the schools announced Monday. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, who gave $20 million to each university, is a nephew of the late King Fahd and worth upward of $20 billion, according to Forbes... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1539487/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:48:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539348/posts A Saudi prince believed to be the wealthiest businessman in the Muslim world has donated $40 million for Harvard and Georgetown to expand their Islamic studies programs, the schools announced Monday. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, who gave $20 million to each university, is a nephew of the late King Fahd and worth upward of $20 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which ranked him fifth on its 2005 list of the world's billionaires. Harvard and Georgetown officials said they will use the gifts to add faculty and scholarships and expand their Islamic studies curricula. Governor Won't Block Williams' Execution Are... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539348/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539330/posts Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies. Harvard said it would create a universitywide program on Islamic studies, recruit new faculty members in the field, provide more support for graduate students and convert rare Islamic textual sources into digital formats to make them widely available. "For a university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard have a strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in scope," said... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539330/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539004/posts Saudi Businessman Donates Millions to Georgetown and Harvard for Study of Islam By Caryle MurphyWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, December 12, 2005; 1:48 PM An internationally prominent Saudi businessman said today that he is donating $20 million each to Georgetown and Harvard universities to expand the study of Islam and the Muslim world as part of his philanthropic efforts aimed at promoting interreligious understanding.Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family, said in a telephone interview from the Saudi capital of Riyadh that he also has established the first two centers for American studies in the Middle East,... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539004/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521572/posts The center's primary focus will be undergraduate education, international outreach Durham, N.C. -- Duke University will create an Islamic studies center that will focus on undergraduate education and expand partnerships with universities in Muslim-majority countries, Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday. “The Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) will seek to advance interaction and understanding between citizens of American and Muslim cultures,” said Lange, the university’s top academic official. “The center’s ultimate objective is to provide interdisciplinary learning with a humanistic approach to the world’s future western and Muslim leaders. This complements many of the university’s top priorities, including advancing the undergraduate... Duke University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521572/posts#comment Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:45:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/851698/posts Feb. 25, 2003 The professor is a terrorist By Daniel Pipes It was quiet in [Cooper Hall] 464 Thursday night, where [Sameeh] Hammoudeh's 6 p.m. Arabic IV class was scheduled to meet. Two students who hadn't heard of his arrest came to class, and a substitute was assigned to teach in Hammoudeh's place. Hammoudeh missed teaching his Arabic class last week due to a slight inconvenience: he had just been charged with racketeering and conspiracy to murder. In fact, he was one of eight men indicted at a US District Court in Florida as "material supporters of a foreign terrorist... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/851698/posts#comment Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/757941/posts The software is blocking the posting of material from the callous, cynical, hate-filled, hypocrite lefties at CounterPunch. I'm going to go ahead and provide a link under this vanity for the following reasons: 1) To further publicize the Middle East Forum's important new website, Campus Watch, which is devoted to monitoring and countering the extreme political radicalism and anti-Westernism dominant in academic Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. 2) So y'all can have a good laugh at how the lefties HOWL when the merest shadow of their tactics of academic insurgency are applied to them. (Somebody call the WHAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE!) CounterPunch article... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/757941/posts#comment Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:06:02 GMT