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Oct 24, 2023·edited Oct 24, 2023

Title of the article is wrong it is not "Qatar’s War for Young American Minds", ,but it should be "How American Universities sold American students to the highest bidder".

Problem in US universities is not Qatar that is giving them money, but Elite Universities which have no issue taking it. Elite Universities have trned themselves in Hedge Funds with enormuse enowments, with side business in education for pupouse of avoiding taxes.

Untill we start taxing unspent endowments, we will be trapped in current situations, where only focus is amassing $$$ no matter how dirty they are

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"Eisenman notes, 'those characteristics describe the United States no less than Qatar and don’t prevent Northwestern from maintaining campuses in Evanston and Chicago.'"

It's hard to imagine a place more racially and socially unequal than Qatar. 320,000 immensely wealthy citizens control and live with dramatically greater rights than the other 2.3 million residents of Qatar.

This piece is as much additional sad commentary on the sad state and hypocrisy of higher education as it is about the Qatari influence specifically.

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It's deeply ironic that institutions that ideologically claim to "hate capitalism" have been so easily bought by an Islamist state.

Another reminder that Leftist leaders are more devoted to money and power than they are to their ideology.

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Great journalism!

Thank you for exposing the money trail.

I am wondering if the US Special Forces will be willing to assist the IDF in tracking down these Hamas leaders for covert executions now that it is beyond obvious what they are doing. Also wondering what Qatar will do once these fermin are eradicated on their soil.

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I wonder how the female and gay students are doing on those Qatari campuses?

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Time to wake up and face the truth We are living in a kleptocracy. From our felonious president down, most of our elected officials are on the take. You know those who are not because they live normal lives like you and me. Of course the ones who take corporate handouts are their bought lapdogs but they aren't the worst. Although the sweetheart deals they make usually cost our dollars, our heath and our liberties. No. The worst are those who take foreign cash to sell out their countries. To do the bidding of tyrants, authoritarians and now butchers of innocents. There's a term for that and the penalty is usually death. And the prime culprit most likely sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But as the evidence mounts up, his days of raking in foreign cash for favors are looking shorter and shorter.

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Mmmm. I wonder if Qatar has safe spaces and supports menstruating men.

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Most US universities are 5th columns at war with America and traditional western values in general. They no longer need financial help, either. It's time to call on the Federal Government and private citizens alike to end all aid and endowments to public universities.

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Check out the donations to the Clinton Foundation from certain Arab states while HRC was SOS; many accepted without seeking the required approval. At least $1 million from Qatar (estimates ranged from $1 - 5 million), with funds being meant for the "Women and Girls Initiative". Yeah, sure.

What a much more powerful statement it would have been at the time to publicly denounce accepting those funds.

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What better way to destroy their enemy , the USA than by controlling the academies. The poisoning of our youth with the woke ideology is somehow connected to this Qatari money trail. Diabolical to secretly support the teaching of thought streams they disagree with on Islamic grounds, for the sole purpose of destroying their perceived enemy ....America and western culture.

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The Islamic version of the CCP’s Confucian Institutes.

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More proof--if anyone needed it--that the big-time higher education business in America--is completely corrupt.

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Great article.

1. Following the money always illuminates things.

2. Just like Europe, tolerance and democracy in the United States is being used to ruin it.

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Oct 24, 2023·edited Oct 24, 2023

"Al Jazeera aired a weekly program hosted by Muslim Brotherhood cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, between 1996 and 2013. al-Qaradawi was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013—the same year that Northwestern signed its agreement with Al Jazeera—as the “theologian of terror.” In one 2009 sermon aired on the network, he said: “I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom.” "

So, has al-Qaradawi carried out his 2009 promise? Is he enjoying his virgins now? Probably not, the jihadi leadership are never the ones who strap on the suicide vests.

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If you want to gin up a rent a mob for hamas, you have to spend the money.

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“Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why.”

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Is it because they know David French will write a column about how seditious conspiracy is pluralism, while also asserting based on nothing that pluralism is good? That’s it isn’t it.

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