How to study the Koran
Posted on 12/12/2005 12:49:07 PM PST by milestogo
By Caryle MurphyWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 12, 2005; 1:48 PM
An internationally prominent Saudi businessman said today that he is donating $20 million each to Georgetown and Harvard universities to expand the study of Islam and the Muslim world as part of his philanthropic efforts aimed at promoting interreligious understanding.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family, said in a telephone interview from the Saudi capital of Riyadh that he also has established the first two centers for American studies in the Middle East, to be located at universities in Beirut and Cairo.
"As you know, since the 9/11 events, the image of Islam has been tarnished in the West," said Alwaleed, who is chairman of the Riyadh-based Kingdom Holding Company and has extensive business holdings in Europe and the United States.
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would he accept the money for Christan Studies in Saudi Arabia?
Why should they study Islam when Georgetown is a purportedly Catholic university, and they don't study (or even respect) Christianity?
I wonder if we can do the same to promote Christianity in Saudi Arabia without the teacher getting his/her head chopped off?
I think they should use this money to study Islam -- namely to better understand it as a mental disorder and to help find a treatment.
DO NOT take the money...money is not everything . Do not let these duplicitous and cunning people subvert our institutions
of higher learning into more of their cheap little madrassas.
Moslems are the heathens , they are the ones that should be studying other religions , not vice versa. Reject this offer
entirely.
saudi ping.
That's $40,000,000 less for bomb making materials, and it's not like Harvard or Georgetown were going to be teaching anything resembling the truth about Islam without that donation.
A little donation from the Reich to further the cultural appreciation of national socialism.
I doubt there'll be any honest study of Islam in that department, more like a study of how to impose Islam on westerners.
"F" him.
How to study the Koran
Gee....maybe they will start giving scholarships for garbagemen.
Great. We can't mention God in government, or the real Judeo/Christian God in schools, but the study of the black rock god of Islam and his pedophile mass murdering prophet is OK? NOT!!!
The Gay prince of Saudi land can stick that money where his gay slave tickles him.
Christian churches and schools in Saudi land before we will even think about it, and God back in our schools FIRST!
On Showtime's Sleeper Cell, the Islamic terrorists were discussing targets, and when one of them suggested a university, the cell's leader said "no way, too much potential support!" (paraphrasing)
Yikes.
-promoting interreligious understanding.-
I'd laugh except it ain't funny.
That's the problem.
Islam is evil. Class dismissed.
For me personally, I just don't trust the guy.
If he's giving $40 million, he's expecting a return for his money.
So what does he expect?
Is it seed money for an intellectual sleeper cell?
I don't know. But I am suspicious.
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