Tucson schools taking MB-tainted money! Dear Harold, It’s bad enough that countless colleges and universities have accepted hundreds of millions—perhaps billions—in grants from Saudi entities. It’s bad enough that the textbooks used in public schools are typically laced with egregious errors, omissions, and outright historical falsehoods on the subject of Islam. (See the ACT! for America Education report here.)
A few years ago a congressional staffer told Brigitte Gabriel and Guy Rodgers (ACT! for America Executive Director) about a college that had been accepting Saudi money for years. And then one day the college was told that, if they wanted to keep getting the money, they had to make changes to their Mideast Studies department to satisfy their Saudi benefactors. We’re not saying the Qatar Foundation will make that kind of demand on the Tucson schools. But wisdom dictates that colleges, universities, and now K-12 school districts, should investigate and understand who’s behind the money and what their agenda is—and act accordingly. How does it make any sense to be beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood? Tucson schools to take $465,000 from Arab charity with Muslim Brotherhood ties Eric Owens Education Editor Last week, the governing board of the Tucson Unified School District asked the school board to accept a $465,000 curriculum grant from the Qatar Foundation International, a global philanthropic organization with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization of the terrorist group Hamas. The grant money is intended to implement “innovative curricula and teaching materials to be used in any Arabic language classroom,” reports the Arizona Daily Independent. Two Tucson schools, Safford K-8 Magnet School and Cholla High Magnet School, will be the recipients of the terror-infested cash, according to Tucson News Now. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/03/tucson-schools-to-take-465000-from-arab-charity-with-muslim-brotherhood-ties/#ixzz2Yqclm52g
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