Motivated Only By An Admirable Commitment to Higher Education, No Doubt (CM)

According to the Associated Press a Saudi prince has donated $40 million for Harvard and Georgetown to expand their Islamic studies programs.

You think the gift, from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, will have any strings attached? Nah! Why would such an idea even occur to me?

The Boston Globe notes:  “After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, in which 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudis, Alwaleed tried to donate $10 million to the Twin Towers Fund for victims. Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani rejected the gift because of an accompanying press release in which Alwaleed urged the United States to reexamine its Middle East policies."