Over the next two weeks, Frontpage
will publish profiles of individual chapters of the Muslim Students
Association and Muslim Student Union on a variety of campuses around the country, showing how
they work to advance the cause of radical Islam and to lead the
effort to stigmatize Israel. These profiles are compiled in our new
booklet, "The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network." To
read the introduction, click here, "The MSA at UCLA," click here, "The MSA at Berkeley, click here, "The MSU at UC Irvine," click here, "The MSA at Brown," click here, "The MSA at Columbia," click here, and "The MSA at Michigan State," click here. – The Editor
MSA-OSU
produces and distributes a publication titled MSA News,
which, on occasion, has included press releases from the Algerian Armed Islamic
Group (which the U.S. State Department
has designated as a terrorist organization) and the Islamic Salvation Front (an
Islamist political party banned in Algeria.75
A
December 20, 2001 Associated Press report stated: “During last year’s Ramadan
fast, MSA-NEWS urged campus groups to purchase a
videotape called ‘The Martyrs of Bosnia’ and show it to Muslim-only gatherings.
The video was sold by London-based Azzam Productions (named after one of the
founders of al-Qaeda), which featured articles on its web site such as
‘Taliban: Allah’s Blessing on Afghanistan,’
and solicited funds there for the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan.
The
site and a related German site were shut down by the British and German governments
as part of their Sept. 11 response.”76
During
the week of October 22-26, 2007, the David
Horowitz Freedom
Center’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
(IFAW) activities – whose aim was to educate students about the grave threat
that radical Islam posed to the world – were held at Ohio
State and 113 other college campuses across
the United States.
In response to IFAW, MSA OSU joined with the campus chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations in sponsoring an educational forum titled “Interfaith
Relations - the Muslim Perspective” which featured a speech by Jamal Badawi,
whose past and present group affiliations include the following Muslim
Brotherhood fronts – the Fiqh Council
of North America, the Islamic Society of North America, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, and the Muslim American Society as well as the
Muslim Brotherhood itself. Badawi, who has decreed it a religious “duty” for
all able-bodied Muslims to wage jihad against the American military, also has
ties to Yousef Al-Qaradawi, one of the most influential clerics in Sunni Islam
who has asserted that Palestinian suicide bombings “are not in any way included
in the framework of prohibited terrorism, even if the victims include some
civiliains.”77
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