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The Center says it recognizes the increasing demands because of the world’s “critical turning point in the history of Muslim-Christian relations” so it will **expand its expertise base and operations, “as well as strengthen the website as a source of critical information about Islam and the Muslim world.” **
The Center’s assistant director, Huma Malik, told WND that the $20 million came from the prince because the center is working on projects that interest him, but **she could not comment on the influence of the donation or why the evangelical Christians were barred from campus. **
The center was founded in 1993 in cooperation with the Fondation pour L’Entante entre Chretians at Musulmans in Geneva “to build strong bridge of understanding between the Muslim world and the West as well as between Islam and Christianity.”
The message of acting as an information source for Islam was reinforced in the fact that while **the Center’s website includes a link for Islamic Resources, there is none for Christian resources. **
It also takes a distinct policy stance, with Esposito noting in a recent posting that **“despite ‘HAMAS’ victory in free and democratic elections, the United States and Europe failed to give the party full recognition and support,” **he wrote.
That type of behavior, he said, provides reasons for "many Muslim autocratic rulers’ to retreat from democratization, and he cited a Gallup World Study that **says it is the policies of the U.S. that generate hurt in the Muslim world **.
"One billion Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia … tell us that U.S. policies, not values, are behind the ire of the Arab/ Muslim world," he wrote.
Those voices, he wrote, say that while America and the United Kingdom are disliked, other Western nations such as France and Germany are not. **He also wrote that the U.S. is suspected because of its relationship to Israel. **
((Part III to follow))
The Center says it recognizes the increasing demands because of the world’s “critical turning point in the history of Muslim-Christian relations” so it will **expand its expertise base and operations, “as well as strengthen the website as a source of critical information about Islam and the Muslim world.” **
The Center’s assistant director, Huma Malik, told WND that the $20 million came from the prince because the center is working on projects that interest him, but **she could not comment on the influence of the donation or why the evangelical Christians were barred from campus. **
The center was founded in 1993 in cooperation with the Fondation pour L’Entante entre Chretians at Musulmans in Geneva “to build strong bridge of understanding between the Muslim world and the West as well as between Islam and Christianity.”
The message of acting as an information source for Islam was reinforced in the fact that while **the Center’s website includes a link for Islamic Resources, there is none for Christian resources. **
It also takes a distinct policy stance, with Esposito noting in a recent posting that **“despite ‘HAMAS’ victory in free and democratic elections, the United States and Europe failed to give the party full recognition and support,” **he wrote.
That type of behavior, he said, provides reasons for "many Muslim autocratic rulers’ to retreat from democratization, and he cited a Gallup World Study that **says it is the policies of the U.S. that generate hurt in the Muslim world **.
"One billion Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia … tell us that U.S. policies, not values, are behind the ire of the Arab/ Muslim world," he wrote.
Those voices, he wrote, say that while America and the United Kingdom are disliked, other Western nations such as France and Germany are not. **He also wrote that the U.S. is suspected because of its relationship to Israel. **
((Part III to follow))