America's First Islamic College?

America’s First Islamic College?

In an essay commissioned by Campus Watch, Stephen Schwartz and Irfan al-Alawi expose the radical personalities and empty claims behind the hype surrounding the launch of Zaytuna College, which bills itself as America’s first Islamic College. Their article appears at American Thinker; here’s a taste:

Who would imagine that a convert to Islam calling himself Hamza Yusuf Hanson, living in the San Francisco Bay Area and in his late ‘40s, would be listed as number 38 among the “Top 50 Muslims in the World” by a leading government body in Jordan? Or that the same Hanson would have announced recently, in grandiose terms, the prospective launch of an American Islamic institution of higher education to be called Zaytuna College, and aimed at becoming a “Muslim Georgetown” in academic prestige?

“Shaykh Hamza,” as he prefers to be known, achieved so high a rank among the “Top 50 Muslims” thanks to an inventory produced by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, in cooperation with Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU).

To read the rest of this essay, please click here.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.