Valuetainment - Historian BLASTS Georgetown Over Saudi Money

00:00:00.000 What did you major in?

00:00:00.920 What was your major in?

00:00:01.700 History.

00:00:02.320 History?

00:00:02.720 Yeah. 0.83

00:00:03.120 And specifically Islam or history?

00:00:05.880 Well, my master's thesis was Islam and Christendom and Christianity.

00:00:09.360 Did any professor in school teach you this exchange with Jefferson,

00:00:12.980 or you had to find out about it later on when you went to the library?

00:00:15.120 No, no.

00:00:15.460 Almost everything I found is my own research.

00:00:17.820 If it was when I was in Georgetown especially, 1.00

00:00:19.720 they were trying to teach a very fluffy version of Islam. 1.00

00:00:22.180 In fact, I had some conflicts there in Georgetown.

00:00:25.000 When I was Victor Davis Hanson, Fresno State,

00:00:26.940 there was more freedom of thought there.

00:00:28.500 But when I went to Georgetown, I didn't understand this at the time.

00:00:31.100 I was very young.

00:00:31.940 I didn't understand about how politically correct and wokeism permeates. 0.96

00:00:35.400 But Georgetown especially was getting, I think it still does, millions of dollars from Saudis. 0.99

00:00:41.440 So it was very much compromised, and they did not like what I was saying and what I was writing, and I would get reprimanded. 1.00

00:00:47.300 I still got A's, but that's one of the reasons I had enough and essentially stopped going there. 0.66

00:00:51.680 So again, if you're going back to the West, if Qatar is spending $7.4 billion into our university,

00:00:59.000 China's number two has $6.3 billion, right?

00:01:01.140 What are they trying to do? 0.95

00:01:02.560 Are they trying to rewrite history?

00:01:04.700 Because when you think about the model of communism, what is the first thing that they do?

00:01:09.060 They get rid of all the books and they get rid of any material that says anything bad about communism.

00:01:14.740 And they keep anything that says anything good about it, right? 0.72

00:01:17.360 So there's a similar model that some say, you know, communists took that playbook from Islam when they came in, right?

00:01:23.800 Was there a moment where, you know, you're asking yourself, what's their motive?

00:01:30.840 How are they seeing this money that they're putting in?

00:01:32.860 Is there an outcome?

00:01:34.520 If I make an investment into a property and I'm buying 1,000 acres of land in a city in Arkansas, I have to have an outcome.

00:01:41.300 I'm planning on building XYZ.

00:01:43.420 Why are they spending so much money?

00:01:44.940 What is their outcome?

00:01:45.700 Well, especially when you realize, okay, I mean, here I'm looking at Saudi Prince donates $40 million.

00:01:50.960 Okay. Think of the culture and the society and the civilization of Saudi Arabia. Okay. Very

00:01:55.700 draconian and very Sharia minded. Okay. Or Qatar, same thing. Or China. They're not Sharia, but these 1.00

00:02:01.180 are not, these are not patrons of the arts. Okay. These are not people who just want intellectual 0.84

00:02:06.220 freedom to flow and they're just giving money. Obviously they're giving money for a reason

00:02:10.060 because they want to influence what's being taught. Okay. And that, that, that's what I was

00:02:14.760 telling you about Georgetown. I experienced it firsthand because it was receiving, I'm looking

00:02:19.120 at it right now, it got nearly $1.1 billion from the Qatari government since 2005. And I was there

00:02:25.180 actually right around 2004 when they were getting even more money. So that impacts obviously how

00:02:33.400 they present Islam. And how do they present it? Well, I just showed you that John Esposito, he was

00:02:38.980 the head of that center. And he's the one who says, oh, before the first crusade-

00:02:42.800 Peaceful, got along, five centuries.

00:02:44.960 Yeah, before the First Crusade, Muslims and Christians were living in peace and harmony.

00:02:49.100 When it actually was, like I said, ISIS on steroids for three, four centuries.

00:02:53.980 Let me ask you, if we just judge it based on success, one has to say they've been successful.

00:03:00.900 If you just judge it on success of expansion, one would say they've been successful.

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Valuetainment - October 12, 2026

Historian BLASTS Georgetown Over Saudi Money

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