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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the Saudi Arabia royal billionaire, has become a major player in Saudi Arabia's propaganda campaign, which is aimed at providing it's archaic, Wahabbi-funding regime with a humane face. Bin Talal has done so by whitewashing the role the Saudis have played in promoting Islamic and Wahabbi intolerance towards non-Muslims and radical Salafist movements, which engage in terror and stealth Jihad. To accomplish his task, he has bought a slice of American and Western academia, and increasingly, the media.
In an expensive (approximately $295K) full-page advertisement published in the Wall Street Journal, Alwaleed Bin Talal stated: "We are dedicated to build a bridge of communication between East and West to achieve a comprehensive tolerance beyond geographical boundaries."
The ad shows images of academic institutions where the Alwaleed Bin Talal foundation has invested millions, including the Program for Islamic Studies at Harvard University; the Center for Islamic-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University; the Center for the Study of Islam in the Modern World at Edinburgh University, Scotland; the Centre for Islamic Studies at Cambridge, UK; a program for Furthering Understanding Scholarship Scheme at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University, UK. These are just some of the Western institutions Bin Talal is invested in. Others include the Islamic Art Wing at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, and the Centres for American Studies and Research at the American University of Cairo (Egypt) and Beirut (Lebanon).