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, "The MSA at U Penn," click here, and "The MSA at Wisconsin," click here. – The Editors
On
April 8, 2002, MSA-VCU was the principal sponsor of a presentation titled “Struggling
for Truth and Justice: The Legacy of Malcolm X.” (Co-sponsors included VCU’s Department
of Religious Studies, Student Government Association, Black Caucus, African
Students Union, Students for Political Awareness, and the campus chapter of the
NAACP.)
The
featured speaker at this Malcolm X tribute was Siraj Wahhaj, a New York imam described
by MSA-VCU as a media personality, anti drug activist and “the first person to
give an Islamic invocation to the United States Congress.”114
No
mention was made of the fact that Wahhaj (an Advisory Board member of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations) had been named by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo
White as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
Center; had testified as a character witness for convicted terror mastermind
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (“the blind sheikh”); had called Operation Desert Storm
(the 1991 U.S.-led military mission to drive Saddam Hussein’s invading forces
out of Kuwait) “one of the most diabolical plots ever in the annals of
history”; had predicted that America would fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda”;
and had openly expressed his desire to see the U.S. government replaced with a
Muslim caliphate.
In
February 2005, MSA VCU presented a Black History Month event titled “The
Pilgrimmage of Malcolm X.” The featured guest speaker was Jihad Abdul-Mumit, a former
Black Panther described by MSA-VCU as a “civil rights activist,” and who is a
supporter of convicted copkiller and former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal.115
Another
part of the event featured the screening of “The Pilgrimmage of Malcolm X,” a
documentary film showcasing the ideas of Zaid Shakir and Hamza Yusuf.116
Both
are Muslim
extremists.
In
November 2007, MSA-VCU promoted an event by the Muslim Students Association of
the U.S. and Canada,
titled “Maintaining Spirituality: Key Lessons for MSA Workers – A Nationwide
Conference Call with Imam Mohamed Magid.” Magid is Vice President of the Muslim
Brotherhood front, the Islamic Society of North America.
According
to Militant Islam Monitor, he is affiliated with the All Dulles Area Muslims
Society (ADAMS), which has longstanding ties to terrorism. ADAMS Chairman Ahmed
Tontonji was named as a defendant in a $1 trillion lawsuit filed by more than
600 relatives of people who had died in the 9/11 attacks.117
Tontonji
also served as Vice President of the International Institute of Islamic
Thought, which U.S. officials have linked to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.118
In
March 2002, federal agents raided ADAMS’s facility in Herndon, Virginia,
as part of an investigation into financial support for terrorism. Magid himself
was present when the agents
first arrived.
NOTES:
114
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.
asp?indid=716
http://richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1300/index.php
115
http://www.workers.org/ww/1999/mumia1111.php
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org individual Profile.
asp?indid=1330
116
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.
asp?indid=974
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual Profile.
asp?indid=1062
117
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.
aspx?GUID=DEAC8704-8610-49A7-8043-017E04B657D0
118
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/12-09-02/discussion.cgi.80.
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