Saudi prince to donate $32bn fortune to charity

[Karachi]

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has said he will donate his $32bn (£20bn; €29bn) personal fortune to charity.
The 60-year-old nephew of King Salman is one of the world's richest people.
He said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1997.
The money would be used to "foster cultural understanding", "empower women", and "provide vital disaster relief", among other things, he said.
Mr Gates praised the decision, calling it an "inspiration to all of us working in philanthropy around the world".
Prince Alwaleed is at number 34 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.
The money will go to the prince's charitable organisation, Alwaleed Philanthropies, to which he has already donated $3.5bn.
The prince, who does not hold an official government position, is chairman of investment firm Kingdom Holding Company.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33353370

[Karachi]

Despite being spoilt, he is one of the better people of the royal family. Hopefully he donates as promised

Wahabhis/Salafis must be p_issing in their pants for donation towards (women empowerment), he always pissed them off

[randolph85]

This guy has historically been a shady piece of ****.

I am guessing that when he dies, his fortune will go to some phony "Alwaleed bin Talal trust" that his family will syphon from.

Cultural understanding and female empowerment are western liberal buzz words that don't actually mean anything.

Has this guy bought bently's for Saudi pilots who have bombed Yemen like he promised he would?

[marwat]

cultural understanding and women empowerment, we know 30 billion US$ out of 32 will be wasted in some useless seminars and workshops in five stars hotels. if he want to do some real stuff then he should help the million IDP and war effected people in middle east, Africa and Afghanistan.

[Kushan Prince]

This guy has historically been a shady piece of ****.

I am guessing that when he dies, his fortune will go to some phony "Alwaleed bin Talal trust" that his family will syphon from.

Cultural understanding and female empowerment are western liberal buzz words that don't actually mean anything.

Has this guy bought bently's for Saudi pilots who have bombed Yemen like he promised he would?

This dude has also been divorced with every woman he has been with and just recently by his cousin. All that money but can't maintain a proper relationship.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

He is a filthy saudi pimp and this is just a publicity stunt.

[HalloIsBack]

i have read today on social media that the wikileaks documents says this money is for islamization of usa

[Khostai]

i have read today on social media that the wikileaks documents says this money is for islamization of usa

lol, Islamization of the west is just a hoax. The same propaganda that they spread about communism and how communist try to take over USA and make everyone a commi.

[HalloIsBack]

lol, Islamization of the west is just a hoax. The same propaganda that they spread about communism and how communist try to take over USA and make everyone a commi.

your opinion
did usa and soviet had such good relationships like saudi and usa?
did sovietunion invest so much money into the west like saudi?

[Khostai]

your opinion
did usa and soviet had such good relationships like saudi and usa?
did sovietunion invest so much money into the west like saudi?

You need to go outside and smell some fresh air. The only reason that there is Islam in the west is due to immigration and also due to tollerant laws of the west towards other people relligions. Saudi money was mainly used in the muslim world to spread their disgusting wahabism, What they quite suceeded in, just look at Afghanistan, Syria and other countries. Even in Indonesie and Malesie wahabism is on the rise and not the forget the bigest who.re country of them all porkistan.

[HalloIsBack]

You need to go outside and smell some fresh air. The only reason that there is Islam in the west is due to immigration and also due to tollerant laws of the west towards other people relligions. Saudi money was mainly used in the muslim world to spread their disgusting wahabism, What they quite suceeded in, just look at Afghanistan, Syria and other countries. Even in Indonesie and Malesie wahabism is on the rise and not the forget the bigest who.re country of them all porkistan.

i did it about 1-2 min ago and the door to my balcony is open, so my entire room is full of fresh air, sucker!
yes due to migration of muslim islam came to the western countries but it were the wahabi who started to open mosques and to brainwash them inside the western countries, other came already with this attitude to the western countries

just let them live with wahabism if they like it

[Bengal_Tiger]

Congratulations to Prince Waleed bin Talal for this excellent and inspiring decision.

May Allah bless him and give him goodness!