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, "The MSA at Wisconsin," click here, "The MSA at Virginia Commonwealth University," click here, and "The Harvard Islamic Society," click here. – The Editors
Each
year, the Johns Hopkins Muslim Association sponsors what it terms “Islam
Awareness Days,” whose purpose is “to promote diversity and dispel
misconceptions about Islam.”123
In
February 2005, the event featured a presentation by then-National MSA President
Hadia Mubarak titled “Liberation and Incarceration? Women in Islam.” Mubarak, a
graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown
University’s School of Foreign Service,
claimed that Americans had developed many misconceptions about the treatment of
women in the Islamic world. Islam, she said, historically had a reputation for
respecting women’s rights and granting them equal status in the eyes of the
law.144
The
Johns Hopkins Muslim Association maintains close ties to Dr. Ashraf Ismail, an instructor
with the AlMaghrib Institute, which offers seminars on Islamic topics in
fourteen U.S.
and Canadian cities. In July 2006 Ismail wrote that Hamas and Hezbollah were
not terrorist organizations, but agents of “grassroots rebellions.”125
In
November 2007, the Johns Hopkins University Muslim Association and Jimmy
Carter’s Habitat for Humanity (HFH) collaborated on an event to counter Islamo-
Fascism Awareness Week which they called “Healing a Fractured World.”126
The
event depicted Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, whose theme was “the oppression
of women in Islam,” as an exercise in anti-Muslim bigotry.
NOTES:
123
http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/
news/2005/02/18/News/Awareness.Days.Examine.Islamic.World-
2244026.shtml
124
Ibid.
125
http://mail.psychedelic-library.org/pipermail/
theharderstuff/20060730/000156.html
http://www.almaghrib.org/aboutus.php
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14226.htm
126
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual Profile.
asp?indid=1655
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/home/index.cfm?event=display
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