SAUDI front group, U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, isn’t the only Islamic extremist group funding American universities. The Iranian regime has done the same thing on a massive scale through its New York-based front, the Alavi Foundation. The Foundation’s website openly lists 30 “academic institutions” in the U.S. and Canada it has awarded grants to.
Clarion Project (h/t Mike F) The Alavi Foundation is accused of funneling money to an Iranian bank linked to the nuclear program. The president of the Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, pled guilty to destroying evidence before it could be submitted to the grand jury. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office investigations chief, Adam Kaufmann, said “We found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything about the foundation.” The case has yet to be resolved.
The Foundation’s purpose is not only to launder money for the regime, but to become subtly engaged in the ideological war. U.S. officials told the Washington Post that the Foundation “promotes Tehran’s views on world affairs.” The communications director for the Iranian-American Community of Northern California, Hamid Azimi, says it is part of the regime’s “propaganda machine.”
This alleged component of Iran’s “propaganda machine” has invested heavily in academia. According to the Alavi Foundation website, 30 colleges and universities in North America have received its financing. The objective is to “offer courses on Persian language, Iranian studies and the Islamic culture with a focus on Shi’ite studies.”
Is your university among them: The named 30 are listed below, organized by state alphabetically and additional notes. The Canadian institutions are listed at the end. All monetary figures were taken from the Alavi Foundation’s own financial reports.
| State | University | Comments |
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| Arizona | University of Arizona | |
| California | San Diego State Univeristy | $20,000 (2010); $40,000 (2008); $48,000 (2007); $3,000 (2004) |
| University of California– Berkeley | $30,000 (2007 and 2004) | |
| University of California– Los Angeles | $10,000 (2007); $2,000 (2005); $10,000 (2004) | |
| University of Southern California | $3,000 (2006); $10,000 (2005) | |
| Connecticut | Harford Seminary |
$17,500 (2008)
As the Clarion Project has reported, Hartford Seminary
has also partnered with the International Institute of
Islamic Thought, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity.
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| Sacred Heart University | $5,000 (2008); $39,000 (2007); $60,000 (2006); $10,000 (2005);$3,000 (2004) | |
| Georgia | Georgia State University | $13,000 (2004) |
| Illinois | Lake Forest College | $20,000 (2007) |
| Maryland | University of Maryland |
$50,000 (2007) As the Clarion Project has reported, the University of Maryland has also partnered with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. The IIIT booked University of Maryland professor Dr. Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, a former Iranian diplomat, as a speaker on December 16, 2011. Moussavi is a visiting instructor for the Fairfax Institute, an organization with strong U.S. Muslim Brotherhood links. |
| Massachusetts | Boston University | |
| Harvard University |
$75,000 (2010 for its Center for Middle East Studies)
$41,000 (2008); $41,000 to Harvard University and $17,00 to
Harvard Law School (20007)
$36,000 (2006)
$36,000, (2005)
$41,000 (2004)
Harvard has also reportedly received at least $2.5 million from
Saudi Arabia.
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| Michigan | University of Michigan | $16,000 (2009, 2008 and 2006) |
| New Jersey | Princeton University |
The school has also reportedly received at least $1 million from
Saudi Arabia.
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| Rutgers University |
According to the New York Post, the Foundation donated $351,600 to the Persian Language Program between 2005 and 2007. The newspaper said that the Foundation also financed the professorship of Hooshang Amirahmadi, a former director of Rutgers’ Center for Middle East Studies. He “unabashedly has touted Hezbollah and Hamas as legitimate organizations and not terrorists.”
$72,500 (2007); $40,500 (2006); $2,100 to Rutgers University and $75,000 to Rutgers Foundation (2005); $137,500 (2004).
The school has reportedly received at least $5 million from Saudi Arabia to endow a chair.
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| New York | Bard College | |
| BinghamtonUniversity |
$7,500 (2006); $5,000 (2005)
As the Clarion Project has reported, Binghamton University has
also partnered with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. |
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| City College of New York | $1,000 (2007) | |
| City University of New York | $1,000 (2006) | |
| Columbia Univeristy |
According to the New York Post, the Foundation donated $100,000 to Columbia University after the school agreed to host Iranian
President Ahmadinejad as a speaker in 2007. The newspaper reported that the Foundation financed at least two professorships, Gary Sick of the School of International and Public Affairs and Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature. Sick has justified Ahmadinejad’s calls to destroy Israel and Dabashi has praised Iraqi, Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists as heroes “resisting this [American] empire.”
$20,000 (2006); $50,000 (2004)
The school has also reportedly received Saudi financing.
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| Hunter College |
In 2010, the school gave back $13,349 (it was originally allocated for its religious program.
$6,000 (in 2007, 2006, and 2006); $14,000 (2004)
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| New York University | $350 (2006) | |
| State University of New York at Old Westbury | $700 (2008) | |
| Ohio | Ohio State University | $3,000 (2006) |
| Oregan | Portland State University | $71,000 (2010 for its Middle East Studies Center); $16, 750 (2008); $32,500 (2007); $20,000 (2006); $47,500 (2005 to the Portand State University Foundation); $18,00 (2004) |
| Pennsylvania | Kutztown University | $9,000 (2009); $5,000 (2007); $3,00 (2006); |
| Temple University | $5,000 (2006) | |
| University of Pennsylvania | $5,000 (2006); $40,000 (2005) | |
| Texas | University of Texas | |
| Virginia | University of Virginia | |
| Eastern Mennonite University |
$20,000 (2010).
As the Clarion Project reported, Eastern Mennonite University has also partnered with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity.
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| Washington, D.C. | Catholic University of America | $45,000 (2007); $60,000 (2006); $75,000 (2005 and 2004) |
| Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin — Madison | $48,000 (2004) |
| Canada | Carlton University | $10,000 (2007) |
| McGill University | $90,000 (2010); $30,000 (2009); $40,000 (2008); $80,000 (2007); $30,000 (2005) | |
| University of Alberta | $5,000 (2008); $5,000 (2004) |
Is it me or they do donate the largest sums to Christian Universities and Colleges, besides Harvard, Princeton etc.
angelito, hmmm, interesting observation.
This is a disgrace; it clearly reveals that the University Boards have no sense of honour and lacks dignity. Acceptance of donations from Islamic Organisations is a clear commitment to accept Islamization of our Nations and the destruction of ‘Freedom.’
These so-called educated people are the dumbest of the dumb.
I see that the university of Arizona is listed but no money Does that mean money was offered but not accepted?
Probably they were unable to verify the amount. Had the school rejected it, it wouldn’t have been on the list.
While this list doesn’t bring a surprise it is good to get some perspective. However, I suspect that the list is not complete or fully up to date. In Canada York University is not even mentioned and it seems riddled with Muslims running every second student group. What is needed is some new legislation that specifically forbids the acceptance of foreign funds or funds from religious or cultural organizations which demand in return propaganda of any sort on their behalf.
hhh, for sure the list is incomplete.
Yes, this has been going on for at least 20 years. Its part of the Saudi manifesto, found in the Holy Land trial. Swiss security found an entire manifesto and plan of Muslim infiltration into the west – and this is one of them.
Mc Gill University is the great whore of the islamists. If my memory is accurate, last year, it cashed a $1.2 million cheque from the Saudis to promote Islamic studies’ programs, a decision that was highly criticized.
These panderers of islam and sharia will choke on that money soon, hope I’m still around to see it!!
nope don’t see any tracks around here only us sheep