Campus Watch in the Media

State Department showers cash "to promote dialogue" on Muslim scholar who objected to speaking on panel with Israeli soldier [on Muqtedar Khan]

by Robert Spencer
Dhimmi Watch
February 19, 2008

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020015.php

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4804

"The choice of Khan to oversee a program dedicated to expanding dialogue between religious communities is beyond parody, as Khan himself has a record of thwarting dialogue, at least with Israeli veterans."

"Coddling Islamists," by Winfield Myers at FrontPage (links at FP):

The U.S. Department of State has awarded a grant worth $494,368 to University of Delaware political scientist, Brookings Institution fellow, and Pentagon consultant Muqtedar Khan, who last fall objected to serving on a panel with a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces. According to a UD press release, the grant is to be used, "to initiate a dialogue on religion and politics between key members of religious and community organizations in the Middle East and the United States."

The press release continued:

Under the grant, participants from Egypt and Saudi Arabia will be on campus this summer for a brief period before traveling to other locations, including New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Later a group of American scholars will travel to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take part in similar activities in those countries. A documentary film is planned of the visit to the U.S.

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