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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

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

Muslims are “Just Like Us! Really?” Lies, damn lies and statistics!

by Jerry Gordon
Mark Twain is alleged to have paraphrased the fabled British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli who opined: “there are lies, damned lies and statistics”. Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in the current edition of The Weekly Standard in an article entitled “Just Like Us! Really?” […]

May 5th, 2008 at 6:10 • opinionRobert SatloffWashington Institute for Near East PolicyThe Weekly StandardJohn Esposito Dalia Mogahed"Who Speaks for Muslims"flawed view of Muslim opinion in ummah 0 Comments