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Post by Truth on Jan 13, 2006 0:00:50 GMT -5
The PSM Conference is not an exercise in "free speech" nor an academic event. It is a "training and strategy session" for anti-Semites to try and sound intellectual while perpetuating war against Israel's Jews. The groups and individuals say one thing then in private advocate for terrorist groups like Hamas. These are the fact.
Georgetown has been bought by a Saudi sheik who funds Hamas. These are the simple facts.
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Post by hilltopper2000 on Jan 13, 2006 8:47:10 GMT -5
"Georgetown has been bought by a Saudi sheik who funds Hamas." Wow. I am now dumber for having read your post, Truth. This debate is getting very tiresome -- but just to indulge you: (1) The money given to SFS will be used to fund scholarships and professorships; donors to Georgetown never get any say over whom receives either. I see nothing but positives coming out of an augmentation of CMCU. (2) Georgetown's free speech code allows any student group to put on a conference like this one. Our peer institutions, Berkeley and Duke, did the same thing. If you are arguing that GU should be more inclusive, in say, for instance, allowing pro-choice groups to do the same, I agree. But the answer is always more speech, not less. (3) There is not one shred of evidence GU has changed a single University policy because of this donation. Now, how simple are those facts?
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Post by A Sarkanyi on Jan 14, 2006 3:28:26 GMT -5
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Post by ASarkanyi on Jan 14, 2006 3:32:23 GMT -5
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Post by husaria1683 on Jan 18, 2006 19:39:37 GMT -5
[Edited. Avoid pesonal attacks--Admin
"Perhaps Alwaleed's animus toward the instruments of "Jewish pressure" explains some of his less-advertised investments -- among them, a $27 million contribution to a Saudi government telethon that raised more than $100 million for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers."
"Material support for terrorists" is a felony under U.S. law. (http://www.law.cornell.edu isn't working right now but, when it comes back, look in USC 18, "crimes," for "terrorism." The crime is punishable by 10 or 15 years, I forget which.) Of course, bin Talal is not subject to the U.S. Code if he raises funds for terrorists in his home country but maybe he belongs not at Georgetown as a visitor but as a "guest" in Club Gitmo, wearing an orange jumpsuit.
"Both the Middle East Media Research Institute's Steven Stalinsky and columnist Diana West have called attention to the prince's co-ownership of the Saudi ART TV network that, under Alwaleed's watch, aired not only the aforementioned telethon but also the fundraiser "Jihad in Palestine," which encouraged Muslims to triumph over the West through suicide bombings and slitting of throats and shattering skulls."
This, and Georgetown's agreement to host the Palestine Solidarity Movement (an organization that advocates terrorism and has connections to terrorists) will be brought to the attention of the Board of Directors because it does not seem that the university's administration is dealing with it. Al-waleed bin Talal's $20 million is the camel's nose under the tent; I do not want to see the rest of the camel.
To hilltopper2000, re: the donor not getting any say in how the money is spent, the above reference says, "In recognition of the prince's generosity, Georgetown renamed its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal center for Muslim-Christian Understanding; Harvard will create a new Islamic studies program in his honor." Muslim-Christian understanding? Christianity is not allowed in Mr. bin Talal's country. The $20 million is a Trojan horse and the objective is to turn a Catholic university into a madrassa for Wahabi (militant) "Islam."
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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2006 20:23:57 GMT -5
To avoid the cross-posting which is now across three different threads, this topic is closed. Please see the "PSM Conference Thread" and post only to it if you are discussing this topic.--Admin
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