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	Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. Anti-Semite Ali Mazrui Honored by Alwaleed Bin Talal Center at Georgetown University by Winfield Myers  •  May 3, 2013 at 7:09 pm http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/05/anti-semite-ali-mazrui-honored-by-alwaleed-bin Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. On May 6, 2010, Ali Mazrui, director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at SUNY-Binghamton, made the following statement to an audience at Columbia University: The population of Jews in the US is three percent ... but [their 'genius'] leads to their controlling so much power that even presidents are scared [of them]. Whether [President Barack] Obama will be able to escape the notion that three percent of the country is so powerful that the top gentile in the land cannot criticize Israel is not clear. In spite of--or perhaps because of--this and other blatantly anti-Semitic statements recorded below, Mazrui has been awarded the "2012-13 Building Bridges Award" by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. The Center's founding director, John Esposito, has long been among America's most vocal apologists for the radical Wahhabi branch of Islam. By honoring Ali Mazrui, the Center Esposito directs--founded with a $20 million gift from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal--remains true to its origins. ACMCU's website says the award, "recognizes individuals who have dedicated their life's work to fostering greater understanding between faith groups." Mazrui and the two other recipients are recognized, it states, because their "efforts to promote interfaith relations, peace-building and social justice have been extraordinary." As illustrated by the quote above and those below (all taken from the same Columbia lecture), Mazrui is no bridge builder. He also claimed that: Jews have been at their best when they were Europeanized...almost as if you needed a mixture of Jewishness and Europeanness [for Jewish genius]. Brendan Goldman, then an NYU senior who reported on Mazrui's lecture for Campus Watch, commented on how Mazrui made the nuanced argument that since Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish, he clearly made 'the Chosen People [into] the proletariat.' And: He also claimed that Jews as a people are insular and racist. 'Arabs are far less race-conscious and ethnic-conscious than Jews are,' he said. 'Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.' Goldman concluded his essay with this observation--now even more apt in light of Georgetown's decision to honor a man MEF president Daniel Pipes called, in light of his Columbia lecture, a "rank anti-Semite": It was a surreal experience to bear witness to a professor of Mazrui's professional stature dispensing with the usual fig leaf of 'anti-Zionism' to espouse classic anti-Semitism. Academia ostensibly supports a world without prejudice, but professors like Mazrui now provide a legitimate façade for Jewish racial stereotypes. This is rank hypocrisy, and it's time we call it what it is. By handing Mazrui an award for building bridges between faiths, Georgetown has strengthened that "legitimate façade for Jewish racial stereotypes." Campus Watch calls upon John Esposito and Georgetown president John J. DeGioia to revoke the 2012-13 Building Bridges Award from Ali Mazrui, whose anti-Semitism and efforts to revive Jewish race science make him unworthy of the esteem of Georgetown University. As the quotes and observations above illustrate, Mazrui is anything but a bridge builder as the phrase is commonly understood. The award is apt only if Esposito, DeGioia, and the Georgetown community intend to build bridges to anti-Semites worldwide. Readers may contact Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and ACMCU Founding Director John Esposito to express their objection to honoring a man with Mazrui's record of anti-Semitism: President John J. DeGioia Office of the President 204 Healy Hall 37th & "O" Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057-1789 Tel: (202) 687-4134 Fax: (202) 687-6660 ACMCU Founding Director John Esposito: Phone: (202) 687-8375 Alt. Phone: (202) 687-6418 Fax: (202) 687-8376 Email: jle2@georgetown.edu Alt. Email: jfc83@georgetown.edu This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete and accurate information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. Related Items Other writings by Winfield Myers Other items related to Georgetown University Other items related to State University of New York, Binghamton Other items related to Saudi/Gulf Funding Other items related to John Esposito
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