By Joe Kaufman
It’s a new semester at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, and Bassem Alhalabi is still a member of the faculty. His connection to a radical mosque, a convicted terrorist, and the illegal shipment of military equipment to a terror sponsoring nation has not deterred the school from keeping him on board. But while FAU’s officials throw caution to the wind and retain the Associate Professor, Alhalabi cautiously works to hide his extremist past.
Bassem Abdo Alhalabi came to Boca, in August of 1996, as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at FAU. With his academic roots established, Alhalabi sought to bring his Muslim faith to his new town. In October of 1998 – with the assistance of the FAU Muslim Student Organization (MSO) he helped to establish – he co-founded the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR).
Today, Alhalabi is still a Director at ICBR. Between its founding and now, the mosque has had a considerable relationship with terror-related groups and individuals.
Along with Alhalabi, another founding Director of ICBR was then-FAU student Syed Khawer Ahmad. Later, while still with the mosque, Ahmad would become the creator of and webmaster for the official website of Hamas’s Islamic Association in Gaza. The Islamic Association, a.k.a. Islamic Society, runs Hamas’s kindergartens and children’s camps, where Palestinian boys and girls receive weapons and explosives training. Read more ...
It’s a new semester at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, and Bassem Alhalabi is still a member of the faculty. His connection to a radical mosque, a convicted terrorist, and the illegal shipment of military equipment to a terror sponsoring nation has not deterred the school from keeping him on board. But while FAU’s officials throw caution to the wind and retain the Associate Professor, Alhalabi cautiously works to hide his extremist past.
Bassem Abdo Alhalabi came to Boca, in August of 1996, as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at FAU. With his academic roots established, Alhalabi sought to bring his Muslim faith to his new town. In October of 1998 – with the assistance of the FAU Muslim Student Organization (MSO) he helped to establish – he co-founded the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR).
Today, Alhalabi is still a Director at ICBR. Between its founding and now, the mosque has had a considerable relationship with terror-related groups and individuals.
Along with Alhalabi, another founding Director of ICBR was then-FAU student Syed Khawer Ahmad. Later, while still with the mosque, Ahmad would become the creator of and webmaster for the official website of Hamas’s Islamic Association in Gaza. The Islamic Association, a.k.a. Islamic Society, runs Hamas’s kindergartens and children’s camps, where Palestinian boys and girls receive weapons and explosives training. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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