Friday, October 26, 2007
A side note to the protesting of Daniel Pipes and Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week at Tufts University:
A group called "Pathways-Tufts Interfaith Initiative" was one of the signatories to the fliers used in the protest. (See the second photo in the entry above.) This group exists at the sufferance of a Federal grant:
Pathways is a new program on campus that aims to promote tolerance and understanding across religious and cultural group on campus. Funded by a federal grant, the project is the result of the leadership and vision of a consortium of partners, representing student organizations and faculty members from across the university...
The "consortium of partners," btw, includes the Muslim Brotherhood founded Muslim Student Association. Here's an article on the Pathways site about the group.
OK, my title is a slight exaggeration (although who knows who paid for the photocopies), but here's another federal grant to a college to create a group with an agenda that often runs counter to American interests.
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Here's another little bit of news my trip to the Tufts campus landed me with last night: I've written before about Jewish and pro-Israel organizations that ignore advocating on behalf of their own mission statements, and I'm sad to report... Read More
