Over a four-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, "The MSA at Queensborough Community College," click
here, "The MSA at Temple," click
here, "The MSA at UC Santa Barbara," click
here, "The MSA at Michigan," click here, and "The MSA at U Penn," click here. – The Editors
In
June 2006, Mir Babar Basir, a recent graduate of UWMadison and a former
President of MSA-UW, endorsed the ideas of Kevin Barrett, who co-founded the
Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, an organization which believes
that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated not by Muslim extremists but by members
of the Bush administration. “This is not just Kevin Barrett’s idea,” said Basir.
“It’s legitimate to think that the U.S. government was involved.”109
In
October 2007, MSA-UW opposed a campus appearance by the conservative social
commentator David Horowitz, who spoke about the dangers of radical Islam.
Horowitz’s speech was part of the Terrorism Awareness Project’s Islamo-Fascism
Awareness Week, whose purpose was to educate American college students about
the nature of the fanatical religious movement aiming to create a global Muslim
empire.
In
October 2007, MSA-UW collaborated with the organization In Your Hands (IYH) to
launch a campaign called “86” Gitmo—Shut It Down,
a protest against the U.S. government’s alleged abuse and torture of Islamic
detainees (mostly al-Qaeda and Taliban combatants captured by the American military)
who were being held in Guantanamo Bay.110 MSA-UW
and IYH jointly pledged to hold demonstrations for 86 days, through January 11,
2008 – the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first group of detainees in
Guantanamo.
In
November 2007, MSA-UW co-sponsored an appearance by guest lecturer Jamal
Badawi, who, in an Islam Online Internet forum, justified Muslim suicide
bombings as a legitimate tactic of jihad. Badawi is a member of the Fiqh
Council of North America,
the Islamic Society of North America, the Consultative Council of North
America, and the Juristic Council of North America.111
He
is also a Board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a former
Board of Directors member of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, and a founding incorporator
of the Muslim American Society, another Muslim Brotherhood front.112
In
the aftermath of Badawi’s appearance, MSA-UW President Sabih Khwaja protested a
scheduled campus appearance by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist who had
since renounced Islamo-fascism and its jihadist objectives. According to MMD
Newswire, MSA-UW expressed concern that Muslims at the university would feel intimidated
“by other Americans as a result of Mr. Shoebat’s speech and presence.”113
NOTES:
109
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7292
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=445190
110
http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/792
111
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.
asp?indid=1009
112
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6263
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/08/muslim_brotherhood_
phonebook_c.php
113
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/muslim-students-2601.html
Ibid.