Do you think the people who run Georgetown University would ever agree to take orders from a Christian group?
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Georgetown ‘Islamophobia’ Initiative Required To ‘Consult’ With Qatar on Guest Speakers, University Contract With Qatari Regime RevealsA contract between an “Islamophobia” initiative at Georgetown University and Hamas-allied Qatar, where Georgetown operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that requires Georgetown to consult with a Qatari government group when selecting “speakers” and “themes” for events in Washington, D.C., documents released by the House Education Committee and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.The contract outlines a $630,000 grant from Qatar’s foreign ministry to Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative, a “multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University.” Signed by Georgetown’s vice president of advancement in June 2024, the contract indicates Qatar will make three payments of $210,000 to the Bridge Initiative between 2024 and 2026. In order to receive the money, Georgetown agreed to “consult” with a Qatari group, the “Islam and Muslims Initiative,” when choosing “themes and speakers” for Islamophobia-related “conferences” and “events.”Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative has hosted, promoted, or defended several figures whom the regime in Qatar has also boosted. They include Bridge Initiative advisory board member Dalia Mogahed and anti-Israel cleric Omar Suleiman, both of whom have promoted terrorism against the Jewish state, as well as Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.”The University’s Bridge Initiative is committed, annually and throughout the duration of this Agreement, to organizing international conferences on the Globalization of Islamophobia and similar themes for the purpose of furthering and disseminating research on this topic,” the contract states. “During that process, it will consult with the Islam and Muslims Initiative, which is supported by the Ministry, and consider recommendations regarding sessions, themes, and speakers.” The contract stipulates that “these events and activities” should be hosted “in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America.”The contract—released by the House Education Committee in a March report, “How Campuses Became Hotbeds: The Rise of Radical Antisemitism on College Campuses”—provides the latest window into the control Qatar exerts over American universities as it showers them with cash, as well as its efforts to influence the conversation in the nation’s capital.
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