Persecution Watch
Georgetown University is our nation's oldest Catholic Jesuit University, founded in 1789 by Bishop John Carroll, and its faculty has chosen a bigotted policy. As a resident of the Great Ivory Tower of Academe, Georgetown will gladly that they provide a diverse, open-minded and all-embracing learning environment. They also just accepted $20 million from a Saudi Prince with which they will construct the Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. According to Georgetown's website, this center will be "addressing stereotypes of Islam and Muslims and issues and questions such as the clash of civilizations, and the compatibility of Islam and modern life - from democratization and pluralism to the status of women, minorities and human rights - and American foreign policy in the Muslim world." Personally, I suspect that the condemnation of America's policy in Iraq will be the cornerstone of this center. How much can they really say about the treatment of women? "In Islam, women are sheltered, controlled, treated as property and they prefer life that way." But why, you ask, is a Saudi prince spending $20 million to educate Americans?
The rest of the story explains exactly what Prince Alwaleed bought with his $20 million. Georgetown has announced the eviction of three Christian groups: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship and Crossroads Campus Christian Fellowship. Georgetown has revoked their affiliations, removed them from the school's Web site and —according to Brit Hume — told them to leave campus. I searched the Georgetown website for all three of these groups and found a link to the Prince Alwaleed Center at the top of the page each time. The first two organizations have indeed been removed entirely from the Georgetown website. The third group had a link at the Site Index that did not work. For Christians at Georgetown, it's eviction time.
The rest of the story explains exactly what Prince Alwaleed bought with his $20 million. Georgetown has announced the eviction of three Christian groups: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship and Crossroads Campus Christian Fellowship. Georgetown has revoked their affiliations, removed them from the school's Web site and —according to Brit Hume — told them to leave campus. I searched the Georgetown website for all three of these groups and found a link to the Prince Alwaleed Center at the top of the page each time. The first two organizations have indeed been removed entirely from the Georgetown website. The third group had a link at the Site Index that did not work. For Christians at Georgetown, it's eviction time.
posted by Bountyhawk at 9:41 AM
1 Comments:
I'm so glad you posted on this---this is a very worthy, very disturbing piece of news. And yet, my quick search of the mainstream media showed no peep of the ejection of these evangelical groups. Perhaps not surprising---but still disturbing.
And especially disturbing that this is the *Catholic church* that is up to this.
Freedom of religion---one of our most basic constitutional rights---means the freedom to attempt to persuade others to join our faith (or "proselytize", as the detractors like to say). I am tired, even sick, of those who try to claim otherwise---and they are a pretty noisy bunch here in Kansas.
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