Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: chi finanzia la SOAS

[che poi e' il maggior centro europeo di produzione di monnezza
accademica antisemita ed antisionista. Oltre ad essere la piu'
prestigiosa universita' dedicata allo studio del medio oriente]
http://thejc.com/news/uk-news/50270/exclusive-soas-taught-gaddafi-son-and-hosts-al-qaradawi-editorial-board
SOAS taught Gaddafi son and hosts al-Qaradawi on editorial board
By Martin Bright, June 15, 2011
The country’s most prestigious university for the study of the Middle
East provided one-to-one English tuition to Mutassim Gaddafi, the son
of the Libyan dictator, who acts as his national security adviser. It
also hosts the controversial Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the
editorial board for its Journal of Islamic Studies.
The information from London University’s School of Oriental and
African Studies is contained in an answer to a Freedom of Information
request from Harlow MP Robert Halfon, and Student Rights, an
organisation that tackles extremism on campus.
The college confirmed that Mr Gaddafi received private tuition at SOAS
for a four-week period in 2006, for which the college received £5,500.
The SOAS response also confirms that a distance-learning deal was
struck with Al-Fateh University in Libya, just months before the Arab
Spring uprisings, in which SOAS received £148,000 for course materials
and teaching.
A report from Student Rights, based on the disclosures, shows that
SOAS also received donations of £755,000 from the Saudi royal family
over the past four years. That money was used to fund the college’s
Islamic Studies Centre, and a Journal of Islamic Studies. The
editorial board of the journal includes Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-
Qaradawi, who has supported suicide bombings and acts as the spiritual
inspiration for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Former London Mayor
Ken Livingstone caused outrage when he invited Sheikh al-Qaradawi to
London in 2004. He has since been refused entry and is also banned
from the United States and Israel. In February he returned to Egypt
where he led Friday prayers on Tahrir Square.
The university has issued a lengthy response  to the Student Rights
report. On the issue of Sheikh Al-Qaradawi’s membership of the
editorial board of a journal hosted by SOAS, it said: “Professor Yusuf
al-Qaradawi and some other editorial advisers from the Middle East
only advise on the Arabic section of the Journal, and not on the
English section. His academic peers and Muslim scholars in the UK and
across the globe consider him to be one of the most outstanding
scholars of the Quran in the Arabic and Islamic world. No political or
other consideration was involved in asking him to be on the board.”
It added that comments attributed to Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Student
Rights report, endorsing suicide bombings and the killing of pregnant
women were “not compatible with SOAS’s values, or our views on hate
speech, and would not be allowed on campus”.
Since 2007, the Saudi royal family’s investment in SOAS has increased
from an initial £100,000 a year to £200,000 in 2008 and £230,000 in
the last tax year. Saudi funding, including gifts from Saudi Arabian
Oil and the King Saud Foundation, now accounts for nearly 14 per cent
of all donations to the institutions. The director and pro-directors
of SOAS also received a gift of cufflinks made of Saudi riyals (the
official coinage), which are worn on official occasions.
The lion’s share of the funding went to the Islamic Studies Centre at
SOAS, which is headed by Professor Mohammed Abdel Haleem, who also
edits the Journal of Islamic Studies. Professor Haleem is widely
regarded as a moderate and received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours in 2008.
However, he is also a trustee of the Saudi-funded King Fahad Academy
in East London, which was discovered to have used textbooks describing
Christians as “pigs” and Jews as “apes”.
Fellow trustees include the Saudi ambassador, Prince Mohammed al-Saud,
and several other members of the Saudi diplomatic mission. In 2007,
the school’s principal, Dr Sumaya Alyusuf admitted on the BBC’s
Newsnight programme that the textbooks were used, but said the
passages concerned had  been misinterprested. At the time, Jewish MP
Louise Ellman said the school was part of a concerted initiative by
the Saudi government to instill extremism in the UK Muslim population.
Mr Halfon said: “I am deeply concerned at the findings of this report
by Student Rights, following the recent Freedom of Information request
that I made to SOAS. I will be raising this further in parliament at
the next opportunity and will be writing to the vice-chancellor of
SOAS asking for an explanation".
The Harlow MP has been at the forefront of the campaign to force
universities to reveal their funding from Middle East sources. He led
the charge against the London School of Economics, which took a £2.2
million donation from another son of the Libyan dictator, Said al-
Gaddafi. In March, the LSE’s director Sir Howard Davies was forced to
resign as details of the relationship came to light. Mr Halfon’s own
grandfather, an Italian Jew from Tripoli, was forced to leave the
country after a series of antisemitic pogroms.
The revelations will be deeply embarrassing to SOAS, which has worked
hard to allay its image as a centre of Islamist activism.
SOAS fiercely denied that the Saudi donations compromised academic
freedom or bought influence. Its spokesman insisted: “SOAS goes to
great lengths to ensure that academic and editorial decisions are made
with integrity.  We do not permit donors or funders to influence
academic work (research content or teaching) or the selection of
academic staff, scholarships or any other students.”

 passages concerned had  been misinterprested.
Gentili porci e scimmioni, volevano dire.

 accademica antisemita ed antisionista.
E' vero?  Mi hanno accettato per un MPhil in 2004, ma ho scelto
Cambridge invece, dove c'era uno specialista nel Mahabharata.  No, non
mi è piaciuta l'aria di SOAS, per qualche ragione.

 mi è piaciuta l'aria di SOAS, per qualche ragione.
puo' essere, diciamo, mordente
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/46817/pro-israel-protester-attacked-soas