Georgetown's Middle East Bridge to Nowhere

Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 7, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Georgetown, amid years of reports that its Middle East Studies were compromised by apologists for violent extremists, if not outright terrorists, has, if anything, doubled down on its approach. "Breaking news on the discipline of Middle East studies is seldom kind to Georgetown University," a report from Campus Watch notes. "In July 2017 came word that the Bridge Initiative of the Saudi-funded Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) had hired former Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) national legal director Arsalan Iftikhar as a senior research fellow."

"With the appointment, Bridge/ACMCU has effectively become a branch of the Hamas-derived, Islamist CAIR. This followed news in June 2017 that the new dean of Georgetown University in Qatar is none other than Ahmad Dallal, a long-time and enthusiastic supporter of the State Department-designated terrorist group Hezbollah. Dallal, who chaired Georgetown's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies from 2003 to 2009, is also pro-Hamas, pro-Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, co-author of an Arabic textbook whose maps omit Israel, and signatory of a letter warning that Israel would engage in 'ethnic cleansing' at the start of the Iraq war."

Nor, the report from Campus Watch indicates, are these two a pair of outliers. In 2015, Jonathan Brown (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2006) became the successor to John Esposito, who we have covered extensively, as director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown.

If anything, Brown makes Esposito, look like a moderate. "Brown has had several run-ins with Campus Watch's reporters and even evicted one, Andrew Harrod, from a 2017 lecture," the report states. "In early 2017, he became embroiled in a controversy surrounding his alleged defense of slavery and rape."

"After all, he claims, 'I don't think it's morally evil to own someone.'"

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The sad thing is, this is Georgetown's idea of doing something religious.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Georgetown is a Catholic school, isn’t it?

[faithhopecharity]

yes, georgetown is, as i recall (correct me if i am wrong) the formerly-Catholic college that actually covered up its Christian symbols so as to not offend the Islamic Illegal Immigrant formerly Occupying our White House

I would not send any money or kids to an enemy-enabling indoctrination camp like that! not one dime.

same problem at Notre Dame where they gave Obammy an honorary degree when he did nothing but hide his citizenship documents, steal someone else’s social security account, and sponsor one bill in the legislature....to legalize the murder of babies who are already born if their parents didn’t want them

such a school no longer has anything to do with Christian faith or moral values. Quite the opposite in fact

[faithhopecharity]

sorry for my rambling above.
i am just sick and tired of some colleges acting like enemy indoctrination facilities...also i am revolted by formerly-Christian schools promoting evil things like Obama, abortion, baby murder, and Islam

if DJT ever gets round to Draining the WashDC swamp .. i hope we can do some housecleaning at some of these sicko colleges, too!!!!!

[Academiadotorg]

let’s put it this way, should academic freedom be federally funded?

[faithhopecharity]

anything that’s federally funded is not freedom

[Academiadotorg]

I might borrow that;>)

[faithhopecharity]

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