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‘Extremism’ Fear over Islam Studies Donations
150 150 Ben Leach

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/nislam113.xml Extremist ideas are being spread by Islamic study centres linked to British universities and backed by multi-million-pound donations from Saudi Arabia and Muslim organisations, a new report claims. Eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than £233.5 million from Saudi and Muslim sources since 1995, with much of the money going to…

The Emir of NYU
150 150 Zvika Krieger

http://nymag.com/news/features/46000/ NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a sellout. John Sexton’s office, which sits on the top floor of NYU’s Bobst Library and…

Yale Moves Away From Plans for Link With Abu Dhabi
150 150 Tamar Lewin

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/education/12yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin After more than a year of talks, Yale University has backed away from its plan for an arts institute in Abu Dhabi, involving Yale’s art, music, architecture and drama schools. The stumbling block, ultimately, was Abu Dhabi’s insistence that Yale offer degree programs at the institute, and Yale’s refusal to grant its degrees in…

Radical Muslim Doctors and What they Mean for the NHS
150 150 Irfan Al-Alawi, Stephen Schwartz

Irfan Al-Alawi, international director (London)1, Stephen Schwartz, executive director (Washington, DC), schwartz@islamicpluralism.eu1 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/336/7648/834 1 Centre for Islamic Pluralism The disclosure that the leading alleged conspirators in lastyear’s bombing attempts in London and Glasgow were Muslimdoctors sent a shockwave through the worldwide non-Muslim public.The same question was asked everywhere: how can those who aretrained to heal…