Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose $10 million contribution was turned down by Rudy Giuliani in the days after the 9/11 attacks, is showering American colleges and political institutions (like the Jimmy Carter Center for Peace and the James Baker Institute) with multi-million dollar donations: Harvard Islamic Studies Program Opened.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., 10 May 2008 — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Foundation, had endowed $20 million in 2005 to establish an Islamic Studies program at Harvard University. He was at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday to inaugurate the program.

The program was named “Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.” Roy P. Mottahedeh, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had been appointed director of the program. ...

The foundation has funded many cultural, educational and philanthropic projects globally including a £16 million endowment to create two new research centers for Islamic studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. In 2005, $20 million was presented to Georgetown University to create the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, a $20 million donated to the Louvre in support of its collection of Islamic art.

Prince Alwaleed also made a $5 million donation to establish the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University in Beirut (AUB) and donated $10 million to finance both the construction of the Humanities and Social Sciences building in the new campus of the American University in Cairo (AUC), and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, received a 1 million euro endowment from the prince.

He also gave a $5 million gift to support Harvard Medical School’s research center in Dubai. He has also made donations to President George H.W. Bush Sr. Scholarship fund established by Phillips Academy, the Carter Center for Peace and the James Baker III Institute, Rice University.

If you’d like to read another incredibly verbose attack by Fjordman that never deals with the basic issues we have with each other, here you go: To the Readers of Little Green Footballs.

(He’s “going over my head,” making a direct appeal to the lizard army, in a futile attempt to overcome my fearsome brainwashing abilities.)

My answer can be summed up in those three legendary words, “Where’s the beef?”

Despite the usual attacks on the people and organizations who’ve brought facts to light about European fascist groups and their relatively slick modern incarnations (without ever disputing the truth of those facts), all of the points Fjordman makes in this essay are peripheral to the very simple, very direct question that I’ve articulated over and over: is it morally right—or wise—to make alliances with European groups who have fascist backgrounds and (in the case of the Vlaams Belang) continuing fascist connections?

To me the answer is obvious: no.

Fjordman has taken a different path.

Follow the link in the left sidebar at Brussels Journal, right next to Fjordman’s article, titled ‘British Nationalist Forum’, to see what kind of people he’s hanging out with these days. Here’s a good place to start: rivers of blood - British Nationalist Forums.

A little Sunday night boogie by Aussie guitar punisher Tommy Emmanuel.

Jonathan Constantine has video of Norman Finkelstein at UC Irvine’s latest antisemitic hatefest (sponsored by Muslim student groups who cheer his every pronouncement in the clip): Finkelstein Angered By Hardball Question, Calls for Military Destruction of Israel - CAMPUS WATCH, Part of the Red County Network.

The Arab League has condemned Hizballah for using weapons.

Because they weren’t using those weapons to kill Jews.

The Arab League condemned Hizbullah for using its weapons within Lebanese territory. The League’s foreign ministers who gathered in Cairo, called for an immediate ceasefire.

Be good to your mother. You only get one.

— Stinky Beaumont