Georgetown U’s Wahhabi Front
comment by Jerry Gordon
When we posted the story about Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and a Georgetown alum questioning HOYAS President John J. DeGioia, and arch dhimmi John Esposito, executive director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) about Prince Alaweed bin Talal’s $20 million grant, we knew there was more to follow.
Today, our ally Patrick Poole has this fascinating story at FrontPageMagazine about who is on the pad at the CUMC-apologists for Saudi Wahhabi Doctrine. They include Susan Douglass, a long time Saudi acolyte, well paid for her ’services, Haida Mubarak and , would you believe the son of convicted USF professor Sami-al Arian, Abdullah. They have all put in time with Muslim Brotherhood front groups with known terrorist connections.
Note this comment from the Poole FrontPageMagazine dossier piece about them:
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.
Seems to me that a lot more Georgetown alumni like Rep. Wolf ought to be raising cane about these Muslim Brotherhood connections with the university administration and trustees.
What’s the analogy here? It is the saga of intrepid Rachel Fish a former Harvard Divinity student who single handedly got Harvard to return a grant of $2 million from the anti-Semitic, late Sheik Zayed of the UAE. That was in 2003. Then, in 2005, Prince Alaweed bin Talal ponied up $20 million to Harvard for an Islamic Studies program. By that time Fish was in graduate school at Brandeis U and no one was at Harvard had any gumption to oppose and expose these Wahhabi connections.
All we need are a few good HOYAS to launch that effort to expose the CMCU, its executive director John Esposito staff and consultants for what they are-proselytizing Saudi Wahhabism in a fine Jesuit institution of higher education in our Nation’s Capitol.
Perhaps, it may be time for what Bruce “Beowulf” Tefft calls the ‘Panzer Pope’, Benedict XVIth, to suggest that the Jesuit order look into what is going on at a major elite university sponsored by the Catholic order.
But as they say: “money talks, people walk”.
By Patrick Poole, FrontPageMagazine.com, February 19, 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. (Continue Reading This Article)
February 19th, 2008 at 7:57 • opinion • Patrick Poole • Georgetown U • Saudi $20 million grant • Muslim Christian Understanding Center • Rep. Frank Wolf • Wahhabi acolytes at CUMC • investigations • 0 Comments •
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