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New Hudson Institute Report Shows Saudi Ministry Textbooks Still Teach Extreme Intolerance

comment by Jerry Gordon
Earlier today, I talked with Nina Shea of Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute who was wrapping up a second Saudi text report. The 90 page report, “2008 Update: Saudi Arabia ’s Curriculum of Intolerance,” with a foreward by former CIA director R. James Woolsey was just released this […]

July 15th, 2008 at 8:16 • opinionNina SheaCenter for Religious FreedomHudson InstituteKing AbdullahR. James WoolseySecond Saudi text studyWahhabi doctrineMadrid Wolrd Muslim League conference 0 Comments

More taqiyya: The Islamic Saudi Academy Response to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

By Jerry Gordon
The embattled Saudi Embassy-sponsored Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in northern Virginia responded with the usual taqiyya –religiously sanctioned dissimilitude- to the definitive report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) on its review of more than 17 Arabic language texts used by the ISA in its 2007-2008 academic […]

June 16th, 2008 at 9:28 • opinionIslamic Saudi AcademycommentsNina SheaHudson Instituteresponse to USCRIF hate text report 0 Comments

Fortune Magazine replies to letter on Fraudulent Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation Ad

by Jerry Gordon
We have sent letters to both Business Week and Fortune magazines regarding placement of the fraudulent Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation ad that conflated the brass Vatican Pontifical medal-that any visitor to the Vatican City gift shop could purchase into a honor from His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. The ad misrepresented that and […]

June 14th, 2008 at 5:34 • opinionNina SheaHudson InstituteThe Weekly StandardFortune Magazineresponse from Fortune publisher on fraudulent Alaweed B 0 Comments

“Report: Troubling texts at Va. Islamic school”- Violence against unbelievers, us

comment by Jerry Gordon
Yesterday the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report covering the translations of 17 textbooks used by the Saudi Embassy - backed Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), a private school using County facilities in McLean Virginia. Last month the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors extended the lease of the […]

June 12th, 2008 at 11:39 • opinionnewsUSCIRFNina SheaHudson InstituteMcLean VirginiaReport on texts at Islamic Saudi Academy 0 Comments

First, Business Week, now Fortune Magazine fall for the Alwaleed Bin Talal Vatican Medal Fraud

by Jerry Gordon
Just as soon as we get a productive response from the publisher at Business Week about the gross misrepresentation and fraud in Alwaleed Bin Talal Humanitarian Vatican medal ad, then along comes Fortune Magazine in my mail with the same ad on p. 119 of the May 26th edition.
So, we wrote a […]

June 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 • opinionNina SheaHudson InstituteFortune MagazineAlwaleed Bin Talal Vatican Medal adWahhabi misleading fraud 0 Comments

Saudi Fraud

comment by Jerry Gordon
Charles Jacobs is the President of the David project Jewish Leadership Institute in Boston. He is a long term buddy. Jacobs and the David project have done great things like tackling my alma mater Columbia University in the documentary, “Columbia Unbecoming” and producing the award winning film, “The Forgotten Refugees” about the […]

May 30th, 2008 at 9:18 • opinionNina SheaHudson InstituteCharles JacobsDavid project Institute for Jewish LeadershipThe Boston Jewish Advocatefraudulent ads in major mediaSaudi Prince Alalweed bin TalalVatican pontifical medal 0 Comments

Business Week replies to Our Letter on the Alalweed bin Talal Foundation ad misrepresentation

by Jerry Gordon
Grass roots action works, if you do it right. This weekend I had spotted an ad in the pages of Business Week for the Alalweed bin Talal Humanitarian Foundation that was a patent fraud and misrepresentation of the facts regarding the alleged honor granted by the Pope in the form of a Pontifical […]

May 27th, 2008 at 3:09 • opinionNina SheaHudson InstituteThe Weekly StandardAlalweed bin Talal Humanitarian FoundationBusiness Week adexchange of emailsgross misrepresenattion by SaudisWahhabi conflation as Vatican of IslamShariah Finance Watch 0 Comments

“A Medal for Brass:” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Chilling Fraudulent Ad in US Media

comment by Jerry Gordon
When I received my copy of Business Week in the mail yesterday, I flipped through the pages until I found an ad that jarred my memory banks. Under a quotation about tolerance from the Qu’ran was a banner headline that blared:

Alwaleed Bin Talal Humanitarian Foundation, representing Kingdom Foundation, awarded the […]

May 24th, 2008 at 5:11 • opinionNina SheaHudson InstituteThe Weekly StandardPontifical medal ad in major US mediagross misrepresentationWahhabi PR campaignPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal 0 Comments

HIGH-PRICED OIL: THE REAL COSTS

comment by Jerry Gordon
Dr. Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute in this New York Post opinion piece makes a good of sense about why we have ‘high priced oil”. How do I know that? Because I consulted my built-in expert at home, a PhD, former university provost and professor of international […]

April 29th, 2008 at 3:28 • opinionNew York PostHigh priced oilIrwin M. StelzerHudson Institute 0 Comments