Dhimmi-witted

I knew an opportunity to use my new favorite word would present itself before too long. From the New York Times:

Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies.

The prince, who is said to be in his late 40's or early 50's, and was fifth on the Forbes 400 list of wealthy people this year, with a fortune of $23.7 billion, has made a variety of other sizable gifts, including $20 million to the Louvre and to other universities.

One gift that backfired, however, was a $10 million check he gave Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in October 2001 for the Twin Towers Fund, a charity to help survivors of uniformed workers who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

The Times has such a penchant for euphemism. The gift didn't "backfire." Guiliani refused to accept it (and kol hakavod to him for doing so). For those who don't remember the specifics, here's something from CNN Archives, October 12, 2001

Prince Alwaleed gave the mayor a check after a Thursday morning memorial service at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks.

The prince offered his condolences to the people of New York, but after the ceremony he released a statement suggesting the United States "must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack."

"The check has not been deposited. The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it," Giuliani said in a statement late Thursday.

The prince's statement said the United States "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause.

"While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the statement said.

Giuliani flatly rejected the prince's position. "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future," he said. "It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.

"And one of the reasons I think this happened is because people were engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism.

"So I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem," Giuliani said.

Harvard will "create a universitywide program on Islamic studies, recruit new faculty members in the field, provide more support for graduate students and convert rare Islamic textual sources into digital formats to make them widely available."

Georgetown will "expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding ... and rename [it] the H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding."

Obviously the administrators of these previously fine institutions do not have the moral clarity nor the courage of a Guiliani. In other words, these dangerous dhimmi-witted cowards have gone over to the dark side.

If either of these is your alma mater, write them a rant, and by all means, stop giving them your blessing, your money and or your children.

Wake up and smell the sewer, folks. This country could go; we could lose it. The New York Times, Harvard University, Georgetown University ... it's like watching the Vichy regime roll over for the Nazis.

Make no mistake, Islamofascists ARE Nazis.

More photos of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem here.