The Middle East Forum has just published an important study by Sam Westrop, Anna Stanley, and Asra Nomani: Beachhead: Georgetown U.. Here are the first two paragraphs of the executive summary (emphasis in original):
Over the past three decades, malign foreign influence actors from Qatar, Turkey, and Malaysia have entrenched themselves at Georgetown University, using the institution’s campuses in Washington, D.C. and Doha as bases to propagate Islamist ideology, train sympathetic academics and diplomats, and fundamentally reshape Middle East and Islamic studies.
Georgetown’s links to these foreign regimes all trace back to the Safa Network, a Virginia-based web of interlinked charities, businesses, and think tanks run by a small group of powerful Islamist voices tied to violent foreign regimes, extremist movements and terrorist financing networks.
MEF’s caption on the thumbnail photo I have posted on the home page reads: “Georgetown, Harvard and Cambridge officials pose in London with their benefactors: senior representatives of the terror-tied Safa Network, a Virginia-based collection of for-profit and non-profit institutions tied to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood. Safa arranged and managed Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s funding of Islamic studies centers at major Western universities.”
This study will not get the attention it deserves. Please check it out here.
