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Fausta has the whole disgusting sell out of America's higher education. In a word - homeschool.

Georgetown U bought for $20 million

Remember the prince who offered $10 million to Rudolph Giuliani after the 9/11 attacks, and Giuliani turned down the money after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks?

The prince found someone for sale: Georgetown U.

Via Phyllis Chesler, BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS: Georgetown gets $20 million from prince promoting Islam. Just months later, university ejects evangelical Christians from campus

The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University has been renamed after Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal donated $20 million to its projects. And while that may be just the tail, the dog appears to be moving away from its historic Catholic and Jesuit teaching philosophy too.

The Center's leaders say it now will be used to put on workshops regarding Islam, fostering exchanges with the Muslim world, addressing U.S. policy towards the Muslim world, working on the relationship of Islam and Arab culture, addressing Muslim citizenship and civil liberties, and developing exchange programs for students from the Muslim world.

The "Christian" part of the center's projects at the university that has a history of 200 years of higher education following its Christian founding, is conspicuous by its absence in its website plans for its 10-year future.

But that won't be a surprise to leaders of a number of Christian evangelical groups whose leaders recently were told to leave the campus and not list Georgetown University as a site for operations in the future.

Read the whole article.

Phyllis also emailed information on how to contact Georgetown University:

President John J. DeGioia
Office of the President
204 Healy Hall
37th & O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057

Tel: (202) 687-4134
Fax: (202) 687-6660

I urge all Georgetown alumni and parents to make themselves heard.

Comments

[DoctorDentons]

I was fortunate to receive a Jesuit education and am extremely saddened to hear that Georgetown Univ. has sunk to this level.I have supported Catholic Universities all my adult life but the line stops here...I am writing to the President of the University to express my feelings in this matter and hope all of you out there will do the same...it's either that or we will be bringing out the prayer rugs at halftime of the Notre Dame vs Michigan State game where they will be playing with a plastic ball.

[clyde]

Considering Georgetown's only attribute recently is a bad basketball team, it seems the Arabs overpaid.

[clyde]

I can see it now: Georgetown introduces the first NCAA camel racing team to American athletics.

[Thomas Carney]

DoctorDentons: while you're telling these so-called 'Catholic' (in name only) institutions where to shove their requests for donations, make sure you send a copy to the Papal Pro-Nuncio in Washington. I'll dig up the address and post it here.

Yeah, the Jesuits are supposed to take an extra vow that other Catholic priests don't take: a vow of obedience to the Pope. This vow gets violated by many of the over-educated egomaniac Jesuits.

The Jesuit order needs an overhaul.

[Winged Hussar 1683]

Georgetown also knowingly and willfully hosted the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference in February. It's pretty obvious that Al-Waleed bin Talal is getting his money's worth from these people.

[duncan]

Isn't it amazing how Atlas conflates issues and gets people to fall for her faulty arguements?
Georgetown, like my alma mater B.C. is not a "Christian university." as Ms. Atlas suggests. Georgetwon is a Catholic, Jesuit universtity. As a private, Catholic university it has the right to invite and dis-invite whoever they please from speaking on campus. Mostly, they will ban groups that espouse teachings that are antithetical to Catholic doctrine. Catholic universities will not allow the Nat'l Abortion Rights Action League to speak on campus. They prohibit gay rights groups from their campuses and they will oppose pro- euthenasia groups from speaking as well.
What do we know about evagelicals? They don't believe in the authority of the Pope in Rome. What else do we know? They proselytize. They try to win folks over to their religious beliefs. So do you think that is going to sit well in an institution that is commited to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church? Of course not.
By the way, it was the Protestant chaplaincy that threw the evagelicals off the Georgetown campus and they did so because they felt they had no oversite on them.
Catholicism is not a democracy. Write all the letters you want. It won't change a thing.