The Muslim Students Association at Temple
By: FrontPage Magazine
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Over a three-week span, 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 MSA at Ohio State," click here, "The MSA at Penn State," click here, and "The MSA at Queensborough Community College," click here. – The Editors
On the weekend of March 29-31, 2002, MSA-TEMPLE hosted the MSA East Zone’s Annual Conference, which featured a presentation by Imam Zaid Shakir. A former Muslim chaplain at Yale University, Shakir is well known for having expressed his desire to see the United States a Muslim country ruled by Islamic law; for having said that “every Muslim who is honest … would like to see America become a Muslim country”; and for having asserted that true Muslims could never accept the legitimacy of the existing American order, because it “is against the orders and ordainments of Allah,” and because “the orientation of the Quran “pushes us in the exact opposite direction.”93
In recent years the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada has led a movement to push for the installation – in the rest rooms of universities and colleges nationwide – of foot baths for Muslim students who wish to practice the ritual washing of their feet before praying on campus. MSA-TEMPLE has supported the national MSA’s efforts in this regard and was one of at least 17 universities which had installed such foot baths.
The MSA-TEMPLE website provides links to the websites of a number of other organizations rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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93 http://eteraz.wordpress.com/2006/07/23/zaid-shakir-is-not-ourmouthpiece/
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