Founded in 1990, the
Muslim Students Association of Brown University (MSA-Brown) seeks to "raise awareness of Islam" on campus by means of "lectures, open houses, social programming, and communication with other groups."
In 2006,
MSA-Brown organized a "Palestinian Solidarity Week" that featured displays depicting Palestinian suffering at the hands of Israeli "aggression." It also featured an "apartheid" wall on the campus' Main Green to protest Israel's recent construction of a security fence -- which
MSA-Brown characterized as an assault on Palestinian human rights.
MSA-Brown designated March 2007 as "Islam Awareness Month" (IAM). A featured presentation of this event was "Censorship in Islam: Where is the Freedom?" a talk by Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the
Muslim Public Affairs Council, an arm of the
Muslim Brotherhood. The anti-Israel Al-Marayati was already on record as accusing Israelis of carrying out the 9/11 attacks; had called for the U.S. government to unfreeze the assets of two terrorism-funding Islamic charities, the
Global Relief Foundation and the
Holy Land Foundation; had refused to concede that Hezbollah was a terrorist group; and had asserted that
Hamas was a group promoting social programs and "educational operations."
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