In response to an increasingly ‘politically correct’ environment U.S. colleges and universities are limiting speech and expression rights, but apparently the same does not hold true for their overseas satellite campuses– at least for their campuses in Qatar’s Education City.

Education City is home to prestigious American universities such as: Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Texas A&M, Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth. Qatari leadership set up a foundation to attract the universities to Qatar by giving them a combined $320 million per year. Qatar is also the state-sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood, the prime mover behind the Al-Jazeera network, and the home-base of Brotherhood heavyweights like its chief jurst, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Sounds like a good deal from a financial point of view, but the reputation of these universities is on-the-line in light of revelations about radical Islamic preachers routinely giving hate-laced sermons at a mosque in Education City. Voice of America (VOA) provides details (below) of some of the messages preached at the mosque.

It includes Mudassir Ahmed, who urged Allah in his March 18 sermon at the mosque to “kill the infidels… Count them in number and do not spare one.”

On March 4, the mosque hosted Mohammed al-Arefe, a Saudi Arabian cleric. In the past, he dubbed Shi’ite Muslims purveyors of “treachery” and “evil,” and has said “non-believers…must be killed” according to Human Rights Watch. “One’s devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah and one’s will to shed blood, smash skulls, and chop off body parts… constitute an honor for the believer,’ he proclaimed in 2012.

And on March 25 the Egyptian fundamentalist Omar Abdelkafi was the guest Friday preacher. He has described the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris as “the sequel to the comedy film of 9/11,” in which he claims Muslims “played no part.”

So what are the U.S. universities doing about this ongoing problem? Very little if anything. A Northwestern University representative Storer H. Rowley denied responsibility of the situation telling VOA: “Northwestern University does not have any control over the mosque or who may be invited to speak there. Northwestern University does not tell our NU-Q students where they should worship (or if they should at all).” Sounds hypocritical considering these universities have speech and expression policies on their U.S. campuses, which repel these very messages. It’s interesting Georgetown is one of the universities in Qatar. Last year Georgetown’s U.S. campus put pressure on an off-campus group to modify a YouTube video of a lecture titled “What’s Right (and Badly Wrong) with Feminism?” because it was deemed offensive by some of the school’s feminist students. I guess for Georgetown it’s okay to censor conservative (American) voices and overlook radical Islamist hate speech? What a double-standard.

It’s time these American universities in Education City take a stand against radical Islam. It may cost them millions of dollars in funding but their reputations as transmitters of knowledge are worth much more.