 A Massachusetts college has modified a controversial security policy after criticism it infringed on the religious rights of students, a school official said Friday. The policy originally banned any head covering that obscured the student's face while engaged in student activities. The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences e-mailed students about the initial changes this week, saying, "Any head covering that obscures a student's face may not be worn, either on campus or at clinical sites, except when required for medical reasons." School officials said the policy was intended to ensure that all students would be identifiable "for reasons of safety and security." But on Thursday, the policy was changed to include an exception "for medical and/or religious reasons." The original policy had prompted questions and concerns among Muslim students and organizations, particularly because it meant Muslim women at the college could no longer wear the niqab, or face veil. The college -- with campuses in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as Manchester, New Hampshire -- stated that the initial modification was "based on a constructive dialogue with our extended community, and an intensive review of safety and security measures with advisors." College spokesman Michael Ratty said, "We will achieve our objective of campus security while allowing for a medical and/or religious accommodation. As always, our primary concern is the security and safety of all our students, faculty and staff." Ratty stressed that Muslims were involved in the original policy decision saying, "Prior to implementation, the college discussed it with several officials within the Muslim community." Muslim students had mixed reactions to the original ban. Aisha Bajwa, president of the Muslim Students Association at the college, called the unmodified policy "unjustified and unconstitutional." Bajwa, who does not wear the niqab, said that having to wear student IDs at all times keeps students safe. Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, thinks the policy targeted Muslim students and filed a third-party complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Writing to the commission, the Council invoked Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating based on religion. Hooper acknowledged that the college's policy focuses on students but said it will inevitably target Muslim employees in the future. After the complaint, George Humphrey, the vice president for College Relations, e-mailed Hooper, announcing the new policy. "We have reviewed our ID policy and made an accommodation for religious reasons," the e-mail said. "Thank you for your input on this matter." Hooper then stated, "We are pleased that the religious rights of all students and staff will now be protected. This is a victory for religious freedom and tolerance." Ratty said, "The complaint was not the sole reason for the reversal but rather an ongoing discussion this week with our community." Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, supported the original policy. Though Pipes acknowledged the larger cultural debate, he said the college is focusing on security. "I have documented dozens and dozens of cases about criminality and terrorism that have been abetted by burqas and niqabs," he said. "It is sensible to ban these, and there are a number of these bans in institutions such as banks or jewelry stores." With increasing concern about terrorist attacks, religious practices will have to be weighed against security, Pipes said. "In Turkey, the hijab has been banned from government offices, so this is not something that is just an American concern," he added. CNN 
 A Pakistani newspaper reports the arrest of five foreign nationals after a raid in a town called Sargodha. The raid took place at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistani movement designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2001. According to the report, "The DPO told that these people had been living in Sargodha since Nov 30 and it was quite a possibility that they were engaged in acts of terrorism." It names the five as Ahmed Abdullah, Waqar Hassan Khan, Eman Hassan, Yasir and Rami Zamzam and describes them as two Yemenis, an Egyptian, a Swede and a U.S.-born Pakistani. December 8: Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last seen November 29. The identities of two of the missing men, Howard student Ramy Zamzam and Waqar Khan, have been mentioned in online postings, including a Facebook page that was set up Monday for friends to offer their support. Some of those pages, however, appear restricted to friends and associates. It is not clear where the men are believed to have gone, but an informed source told the IPT that at least one left behind a farewell video. According to the Facebook and Twitter postings, Zamzam is among the missing. He has been active in the Muslim Students Association, serving as president of the MSA DC Council. A Howard University spokeswoman has not responded to questions from the IPT. The disappearance comes as U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about the threat of homegrown Islamist extremism.
This concern is prompted by a spike in attacks like the Fort Hood massacre, and conspiracies broken up by law enforcement before any attacks took place. President Obama noted the increase during his speech last week at West Point explaining the Afghanistan surge: "In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror." Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano echoed that sentiment in a speech last week. "We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by Al Qaeda and radical ideology," she said. On Monday, federal prosecutors charged a Chicago man with six counts of conspiracy tied to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed more than 170 people, including six Americans. That attack was believed to be carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani terrorist group that has been implicated in conspiracies in Virginia, Toronto and elsewhere. On the surface, at least, the situation in Washington resembles the case of 20 young Somalis who disappeared from the Minneapolis area a year ago. They are believed to have made their way back to Somalia, where they trained with the Al-Shabaab terrorist group. At least three of those men have died, including one who became the first known American citizen to carry out a suicide bombing. Fourteen people have been indicted in relation to the Somali recruitment effort. Little is known about Zamzam. In 2008, he was part of a student effort in northern Virginia to solicit mosques throughout the country to raise money to build a new mosque. He also posted a comment indicating he thought women were required by Islam to cover themselves and that Muslim women who did not faced punishment from God. "Those that don't, then woe to them for a day where all will be held accountable for what they put forth in the life of this world, and Allah SWT wrongs no one, and He is the Most Just, Most Merciful." IPT
 As the spotlight moves away from the Fort Hood massacre, one of America's most openly radical Islamist organizations has taken to the murderer's defense. As-Sabiqun, a Washington D.C.-based organization with branches in four other major American cities, released a flyer labeling shooter Nidal Malik Hasan as "victimized" and the "target of psychological warfare." The handout also defended convicted terrorists and suspects. As-Sabiqun has repeatedly predicted the demise of the United States and dreams of "the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050." It has openly declared support for terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hizbullah, and even claimed it funded anti-American militants. With concerns growing over radical Islamist propaganda in the United States, As-Sabiqun is one of the leading organizations building a bridge between international Islamism and its developing American counterpart. As-Sabiqun is headquartered in Washington D.C., but has branches in Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Philadelphia.
Its leader, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, is well-known in Islamist circles for spreading anti-American propaganda and militancy. Last weekend, Musa addressed the annual conference of the Muslim Students Association – Persian Speaking group, a Shia branch of the national Muslim Students Association primarily for Shia Muslims. There, Musa saluted the Iranian Revolution as the "greatest epic in modern, even ancient history" and urged the students to have patience as the United States collapsed: "Well I'm telling you, it's very simple. I think you got the message now. We're in a big war brothers and sisters. This is as big as it gets for the United States. We are just like it is during the 60s and 70s. So if you're gonna be Muslim, buckle down and be a tough one because in the final analysis the U.S. is finished." Musa was applauded following his conclusion, in which he honored the survival of the Iranian Revolution and its student supporters in the United States: "Your survival has made you stronger and better and better in management and organization than anybody else, just by your survival. Remember, a revolutionary do [sic] not have to win any war. They only have to survive, even if you lose 90 percent of your people. You have to understand revolutionary warfare. If you lose 90 percent of your wealth and people and you still moving around and mobile, you can come back. That's the rules of revolutionary warfare – to survive. I'm trying to tell you – the war is already won. [Musa laughs.] They just have to fall over." This is not the first time this year that Musa has preached hate and militancy to an American Muslim student organization. In a February 19th speech to the MSA at Berkeley, Musa explained how he funneled money to African jihadists with the intention of conquering the United States: "So we have seen movements, because although we was in (UI word) in the first stage, and the next stage we were using criminal wealth to help our brothers, you know our brothers in Algeria and in Africa, they had fought the United States government, they was in exile. They knew about a revolution, but they didn't know nothing about money. Well, since I was a criminal, I knew all about making money. So all the criminal money that I made I would take it to the brothers and say – OK, you guys, buy me some weapons, you'll go back, we'll take over the United States. That was the dream that we had. You got to dream big. Ain't no sense in dreaming small, right? Live your dreams." Musa has traveled abroad to support Islamist movements worldwide. The As-Sabiqun website indicates that Musa traveled abroad several times to Iran. During a 1996 conference in South Africa, he stated: "And this religion Islam will dominate all other religions whether the Americans, whether the British, whether the French, whether the Russians, whether the Japanese, whether all of them get together in one solid group to fight Islam. It don't make no difference. In the final analysis, Allah (swt) said that his religion—Islam—will rise to the forefront, will be elevated to the role of leadership in this world, whether they all like it or not." That same year, Musa called for an Islamic state in London during a conference there that featured a wide assortment of radicals, including representatives of FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], Hizbullah and Hamas. As-Sabiqun's website describes how, "During a rally in July 1999, Imam Musa displayed a cashier's check made out to 'Hamas, Palestine,' to protest the 1996 U.S. law which declared Hamas a terrorist organization." On a February 18 2007 broadcast of Fox News, Musa stated, "I know Hamas. They are nice people. Very nice people." Musa has repeatedly cheered Hizbullah's "victory" over Israel and has saluted suicide bombers, saying: "When they go out and strike at the heart of Zionism. They are not suicide bombers they are heroes they are she-roes, isn't that right? That's a part of our deen, that's a part of our religion, let's not become weak boned and apologetic..." Musa has also fueled the flames of international hatred against the United States. In an appearance last month on Iran's government-controlled Press TV, Musa pitted America against Islam: "Islamophobia to us right now, coming out of 9-1-1 (9/11), is something that the [American] government and the Israelis did in the U.S. to justify a global attack on Islam … the perception management now by the media, gives the media and gives the military justification to invade our countries, to stop us in airports, to exclude us from society." The extremism expressed by As-Sabiqun and Musa might easily be passed off as the bizarre ranting of a radical cleric and his hateful organization. However, as the Fort Hood massacre, the FBI shooting of Luqman Abdullah and other recent investigations show, fiery rhetoric can lead to violent plotting. The lesson of Fort Hood is not to ignore open self-radicalization, but to heed those who openly preach our destruction from within. IPT
 By CHRISTINE OLLEY Amid a firestorm of contention, several hundred people heard Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch parliamentarian, speak last night at Temple University. During his approximately 30-minute speech, Wilders called the Quran "an evil book" and said that the United States was facing Islamization. A question-and-answer session was cut short, and Wilders was escorted out of the lecture hall after some students began shouting insults at him. Before the speech, held in Anderson Hall, more than 50 protesters had denounced the appearance of Wilders at the school. Members of All Sides, an organization that seeks to promote peace between Israel and Palestinians, held pink pom-poms and shouted, "Hey Hey, HO, HO, this racist bull----'s got to go." Standing next to them with signs decrying Wilders' views were members of the Student Senate, Democratic Socialists and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. "Wilders speaks out about free speech while at the same time banning the Quran," said Megan Chialastri, vice president of All Sides. "Banned books are not free speech and there is no way around that," Chialastri said. "This is hate speech at its core," said Monira Gamal-Eldin, president of the Muslim Students Association. Inside the auditorium, after going through rigorous security checks, students assembled to hear the Dutch politician speak. Brittany Walsh, president of the student group Purpose, which had invited Wilders, introduced his 17-minute short film, Fitna - Arabic for disagreement and division among people - in which passages from the Quran are juxtaposed with newspaper clippings and video showing or describing violent acts by Muslims. Wilders, 46, emerged after the film, flanked by a security detail which he said made him feel as if he was not free but which has been necessary because of numerous threats on his life. Before he was escorted out, the last student allowed to address Wilders said: "Clearly fascism wasn't defeated, because if it was, a genocide-loving racist clown like you still wouldn't have anything to say." As the audience filed out of the auditorium, two Temple students offered their reactions to Wilders' visit. "I'm proud," said Jonas Skovdal. "I think it's a big win for humanity that people stood up to him in there." "It was a good experience," said Brian Wisnieski. "What he said was definitely negative, but it was a good experience that he came." The event was funded by the California-based David Horowitz Freedom Center, a foundation that promotes conservative scholarship. Source: Philadelphia Daily News
 By David Horowitz The Temple Muslim Students Association is attempting to shut down the scheduled appearance of Geert Wilders on October 20. As part of its Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, and its campaign to Stop the Campus War Against Israel and the Jews, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is sponsoring appearances by Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders at Temple and Columbia universities (October 20 and 21). The Muslim Students Association has issued a statement condemning the event and calling on the Temple Administration to close it down. The MSA statement can be found at the end of this post. The David Horowitz Freedom Center statement follows: David Horowitz Freedom Center Response to the Muslim Students Association The Temple Muslim Students Association has issued a call to the Temple University administration to censor the forthcoming campus appearance of Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders on the 20th of October, which is sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Temple administration should reject this attack on the First Amendment rights of all members of the Temple community. Read more ...Source: FMPMSA
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 In the heartland of America, a left-wing British politician raises funds that support extremism and terrorism in Gaza.By Patrick Poole Last March, extreme left-wing UK politician George Galloway traveled to Gaza and handed over a pile of cash to the head of Hamas. The photo-op was broadcast live on al-Jazeera TV. At that event (video and transcript of Galloway’s speech available from the Middle East Media Research Institute), he promised Hamas that he would soon bring more money for the terrorist group “from his friends.” Weeks later, Galloway conducted a fundraising swing through the U.S. after having been banned from Canada on “national security grounds.” A judge later upheld the ban on his entry. One of Galloway’s fundraising stops was for the Muslim Student Union at the University of California-Irvine. The Jerusalem Post reported last week that the student group is now under investigation by the university for having knowingly raised funds for Hamas at the event — a federal felony. Amazingly, several university officials were present at the fundraiser. One Jewish group has requested that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also open an investigation after submitting a report and videos of the event to the Justice Department. Read more ... Source: PJMH/T: FPMMSA
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 By Joe Kaufman It is widely understood that the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group recently named by the Justice Department a co-conspirator in a high profile Hamas financing trial, was founded in 1981. However, according to the organization, in word and activity, it was instead established nearly two decades earlier, in 1963. Question: Why the discrepancy, and should the group it claims as its ‘self,’ the Muslim Students Association (MSA), receive the same pro-terrorist label? July 3, 2009, will mark the beginning of the 46th Annual ISNA Convention. The event will feature a number of prominent leaders of the radical Muslim community, including Mokhtar Maghraoui, imam of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR); Muzammil Siddiqi, former National President of ISNA and current member of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) Board of Trustees; Safaa Zarzour, Program Chair for the ISNA Education Forum and Chairman of the Chicago office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago); Altaf Husain, the former National President of the MSA and current Executive Committee member of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA); and Abdul Malik Mujahid, the former National President of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and the founder and current President of ICNA’s multimedia wing, SoundVision (SV). Calling the event the “46th Annual ISNA Convention” is slightly deceiving, as ISNA only came onto the scene less than 30 years ago. ISNA was the 1981 brainchild of alumni from the Muslim Students Association (MSA), a group founded by members of the violent Muslim Brotherhood, in coordination with Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. As stated in Al-Arian’s bio, “In 1981, he helped establish the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest Muslim grassroots organization in country.” Yet, ISNA claims as its own the birthright of the MSA, which was created 46 years ago. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 Farooq Kathwari the CEO of Ethan Allen furniture is sponsoring and slated to be the keynote speaker at the conference of the Kashmir Corps taking place at Columbia University on Saturday April 11 th. The event is cosponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood linked MSA. The MSA announcement proclaimed that: KashmirCorps will host a conference, co-sponsored by MSA, that brings together alumni of its Summer Public Service Program, other accomplished students, young professionals, and experts with substantial experience in the fields of economic development, education and healthcare in Kashmir. The purpose of this event is to facilitate networking among young leaders and to formulate projects within the development framework that can be implemented in Kashmir. Those committed to the advancement of Kashmiri society will therefore be able to leverage their knowledge, skills, and abilities in pursuit of this goal through a coordinated and sustained effort.
Farooq Kathwari, the Chairman, CEO, and President of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., and a Trustee of Freedom House, has graciously agreed to sponsor this initiative and will deliver the conference's keynote address. Read more ... Source: Militant Islam Monitor
By Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer March 26, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On April 1 the Hillel and Muslim Student Association of the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting an event titled "Shariah 101: It's contemporary applications and theological validity." The discussion will take place on the second floor of the Hillel building and in true dhimmi mode, the Hillel will be serving a Halal [Shari'a compliant] meal. This is not the first time that the Hillel at UPenn has worked with the Muslim Student Association despite being alerted to their Islamist agenda. As these writers have documented in U Penn's Hillel and MSA's Excellent Spring Break Interfaith Jihad Adventure UPenn has a long history of conducting harmful outreach with the MSA, damaging its own credibility in the process. Read more ...Source: Militant Islam MonitorHillel
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Les hadiths sont des propos attribués à Mahomet, ou parfois à des observateurs contemporains, qui renseignent sur sa doctrine, sa vie publique comme privée et concernent des sujets d'une très grande variété. Ils se comptent par dizaines de milliers et sont habituellement distingués selon leur degré de fiabilité pour laquelle l'identification de la chaîne de transmetteurs oraux est décisive. La sélection de hadiths proposée ici a été effectuée parmi ceux considérés comme les plus fiables et propose un portrait édifiant des débuts de l'islam qui oscille entre obscurantisme et barbarie. Les compilations de hadiths de Bukhari, Muslim, Dawud et Malik, qui en comportent près de 20 000 et dont ceux-ci sont issus, peuvent être consultés, dans leur traduction en anglais, sur le site de l'Association des Étudiants Musulmans de l'Université de Californie du Sud : http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/ - Read more ...Source: Atheisme.orgH/T: FF
 By Joe Kaufman It’s Islam Awareness Month once again at the University of Florida (UF) Gainesville, and once again “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Siraj Wahhaj, has been invited to participate. Given the inappropriate nature of the event, can anyone question the radical nature of the group who is sponsoring his appearance? UF, like most other major universities, has on its premises a chapter of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the Muslim Brotherhood faction that began in the early Sixties. The MSA stationed at UF has the title Islam On Campus (IOC). Not unlike its big Brother overseas, the rhetoric from IOC and its staff is considerably extreme. In the April 2008 issue of The IOC Chronicles, in an article about an online Scrabble-type word game, the following quotes are found: “Then on the very next turn, it crosses Mosque with JEW. I was so pissed. I could just picture some programmer with a yarmulke laughing at me. Punk.” He continued his slur: “That’s exactly what these friggin Yahood want. I won’t give them the satisfaction of winning.” The IOC excused the piece as “satire.” Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 By John Perazzo This past Monday and Tuesday, West Chester University (WCU) in Pennsylvania presented a forum titled “Islam in America: Understanding Intercultural Differences.” That benign-sounding title gives no indication of the bitterly anti-Israel, anti-American views espoused by the key individuals who spoke at the event. The fact that such views were represented becomes less surprising, however, when we consider that one co-sponsor of “Islam in America” was the Muslim Students Association (MSA). West Chester’s campus MSA is a chapter of MSA National, which was originally founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that supports the worldwide imposition of Islamic Law and seeks to pursue “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying … Western civilization from within.” The keynote speaker at “Islam in America” was one of the most influential Shi’a religious leaders in the United States, Imam Sayid Hassan Qazwini. Carefully presenting himself to the public as a voice of reason and moderation in the Muslim community, Qazwini heads the Dearborn, Michigan-based Islamic Center of America (ICOA), the largest mosque on the continent. He has been embraced by three credulous American presidents—Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—as a valued ally in the quest for mutual respect and tolerance among practitioners of different faiths. Moreover, Qazwini was given the honor of offering a prayer at the opening session of the 108th Congress in 2003. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report The American Muslim Taskforce (AMT), a coalition of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations has written a letter to President-elect Obama identifying themselves as “Muslim leadership” and alleging that the U.S. government has engaged in “COINTELPRO” campaigns against the U.S. Muslim and Arab communities, referring to a series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the F.B.I. from 1956 to 1971 and targeting political organizations. The letter also demands a series of policy changes from the Obama administration:   The AMT was founded in February 2004 by a coalition of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood groups to “encourage community-based Muslim political participation and to defend against the erosion of civil liberties in a post-9/11 social environment.” At that time, the coordinator, of the AMT was identified as Agha Saeed chairman of the American Muslim Alliance (AMA) which in turn was part of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council, both organizations representing earlier U.S. Brotherhood electoral coalitions. The new organization aid that it was committed to holding voter education and registration drives, encouraging Muslims to work in political campaigns, hosting candidates’ town hall meetings, issuing candidate scorecards on issues of importance to the Muslim community, and to forming coalitions with like-minded groups.  In 2004, the AMT drew national attention when it endorsed Senator John Kerry (Dem) for President and criticized President Bush for being “insensitive to the civil liberties and human rights of American Muslims, Arab-Americans and South Asians” and to treating American Muslims “like second-class citizens.” The AMT today is comprised of the most important U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations including the Muslim American Society (MAS). Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle Of North America (ICNA), Islamic Society Of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Source: Family Security Matters
On Wednesday, December 31, American Muslims and other people of conscience will gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., for a "New Year's Eve Candlelight Vigil for Gaza." The vigil is sponsored by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of 12 major Islamic organizations. Vigil participants will call on public officials to help stop Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, restore the cease-fire and promote peace with justice in the Middle East during the coming year. ... AMT is an umbrella organization that includes: American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society-Freedom Foundation (MAS-FF), Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), and United Muslims of America (UMA). Its observer organizations include: Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (IEC). Read more ...Source: CAIR H/T: Weasel Zippers
By Robert Spencer The University of Southern California Muslim Students Association’s “Compendium of Muslim Texts” -- a helpful online collection that I’ve used for years to demonstrate that, the actual content of Islamic teachings on jihad warfare, Islamic supremacism, and related matters -- has been renamed the “Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement.” Most of the texts are still there, along with a new link to the Talmud. Conspicuously absent is Syed Abul Ala Maududi’s introductions to every Qur’an chapter, which had been a feature of the old site. Maududi, of course, was a Pakistani jihad theorist whose writings remain enormously influential among Muslims today. Why might Maududi have been deep-sixed by the suddenly ecumenical-minded Muslims of the USC Muslim Students Association? Perhaps it is because of small matters such as his commentary on Qur’an 9:29, in which he states that unbelievers have “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines. For if they are given such an opportunity, corruption and mischief will ensue. In such a situation the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life” (Towards Understanding the Qur’an, vol. III, p. 202). Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
Controversy simmers at Towson University in Maryland after the school's Muslim Students Association chapter hosted radical Imam Abdul Alim Musa for a lecture called "The Long Wars." It was supposed to focus on U.S. wars on drugs and terrorism. But many, including Muslim students, walked away offended by Musa's views on 9/11, on President-Elect Barack Obama and Martin Luther King. As freshman Molly Groo wrote in the independent student paper, the Tower Light, Musa strayed far from the advertised issues: "Instead, with virtually no evidence to back up his points, Imam Musa claimed that the United States and the Israelis were responsible for the attacks on 9/11; that President-elect Barack Obama is an "idiot" because "no black man should believe in America"; that Martin Luther King Jr. was a coward who should have rebelled against the system more actively and violently; that al-Qaeda doesn't exist; and that by 2050, the Imam aims to change the United States into an Islamic state run by Sharia law." Her disappointment in the lecture and in MSA's judgment was shared by "Miraaj," a self-described African-American Muslim who commented on Groo's article. Musa's insulting invective "was enough to turn my stomach," Miraaj wrote. "Imam Musa spoke as a black nationalist stuck in the 60's. In the end I thought that he was a disgrace to black people and Muslims." Source: IPT Blog
The Muslim Students Association enjoys the support of many university administrators despite disturbing activitiesBy Reut Cohen The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a non-profit research organization founded by Steve Emerson, published a letter on the IPT website which was written by a Muslim Students Association (MSA) member. The letter urges Muslims not to vote in elections this November. While an overwhelming number of Muslim-Americans supported Barack Obama, the MSA student suggested that both candidates are “kafir” and “poisonous.” Farhad Akbari, the San Diego student, writes: Whether you vote for the white kafir or the half-black kafir, they will kill our brothers and sisters. They will subjugate our brothers and sisters. And they will certainly support Israel in killing our brothers and sisters. There is no “lesser of two evils” here. They are both greater evils. The lesser evil is avoiding the situation, as both are equally poisonous to the cause of Islam. … Brothers and sisters, I have one thing to say: DON’T VOTE. IPT accurately points out that these radical views are not anomalies, and are pervasive among various MSA chapters. The July 1999 issue of UCLA’s MSA magazine al-Talib features the faces of Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Malcolm X. The article in the magazine about Osama expresses a hope that Muslims will defend their “brother” when someone refers to him as a terrorist.The Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada maintains chapters on more than 600 college campuses, 150 of which are directly affiliated with the national organization. While chapters may sometimes vary since the relationship between individual chapters and the national level is not fixed, the MSA has gained notoriety for radicalism on North American college campuses. The MSA was initially founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as one of the Brotherhood’s like-minded “organizations of our friends” who shared the common goal of destroying America. These “friends” were described by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims “that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ’sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.” Read more ... Source: Pajamas MediaFarhad Akbari
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 In the final days of the 2008 Presidential election season – with just 6 days now remaining until voters cast their ballots – both campaigns are carefully maneuvering to gain an edge, while still others are singularly focused on just "getting out the vote." Regardless of the outcome desired by these activists, there seems to be one unified message across the American political spectrum these days: Participate in our democratic system. However, one college's Muslim student organization has sought to air a completely different message regarding the election: that of the Islamists. A student named Farhad Akbari posted an essay on the internal Yahoo! Group of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at San Diego Mesa College on October 14. In his post, "The Issue of Voting," Akbari delves into the election, warning his fellow group members of the fate in store for those who cast a ballot for "a person who fights Islam, governs contrary to Islam, and is himself a kafir [infidel or unbeliever]…" Akbari does not reserve this treatment for any specific candidate. Rather, he holds both major party candidates in equal regard. Read more ...Source: IPT News
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee is one of the campuses which is hosting Stop the Jihad On Campus week. A full-page ad was taken out in the UWMPost by the David Horowitz Freedom Center to advertise the event. On the opposite page of the ad, there was a full page ad taken out by the Muslim Students Association. Interestingly enough, the UWM Post provided this ad-space to the MSA free of charge. Above the DHFC ad, it stated "PAID ADVERTISEMENT". Above MSA's ad, it read "ADVERTISEMENT". More interesting still is the fact that the MSA ad mirrors the DHFC ad, both physically in the paper and in its design. This means, as our student sources at UWM have confirmed, that the editors/editor at the UWMPost showed the ad to the MSA prior to it being placed in print -- a blatant ethical violation. Read the DHFC ad and the MSA mirror-imitation, followed by Robert Spencer's response to the MSA ad's defamatory remarks.Source: FrontPage Magazine
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