Following the money

Considering the billions of dollars countries like Saudi Arabia are throwing around to gain influence in Western educational institutions, this seems like a sensible suggestion:

(Steven) Emerson, best-selling author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, says Saudi Arabia should be allowed to bankroll religious initiatives in the West only when it becomes open to the idea of religious reciprocity.
"I think there should be a law requiring religious reciprocity for funding coming from regimes that restrict religious freedom on their soil," he says. "Saudi Arabia does not allow the practice of any other religion, bars the operations of churches, confiscates Bibles ... As such, there should be laws passed by Western governments prohibiting Saudi donations to universities until and unless Saudi Arabia operates a pluralistic religious environment.
"Absent such laws, I believe that universities should be required to register as foreign registered agents - a law we have in the US - that designates the Saudi donors and their recipients as agents of a foreign power.
"That would certainly stigmatise the grant giving and give pause before a university accepts such money."

Whatever "interfaith dialogs" these 'gifts' are supposed to spark seem unanimously one-sided, and not in the favor of traditional Western thought. That's not a coincidence.

(HT: Instapundit)