The MSA is a Pro-Terror Organization
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An article by Ben Johnson recounts the evidence against the Muslim Students Association, a Saudi-founded Islamist front group that has unfortunately done a great job of infiltrating American universities: The MSA is a Pro-Terror Organization.
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The Muslim Student Association is a Pro-Terror Organization
by Ben Johnson
In reading Fahad Alqurashi’s recent Guest Editorial about FrontPage Magazine (“False Claims Slander Muslim Group at BSU,” Dec. 13), which repeatedly accuses us of making “false claims,” I was disappointed he refused to document a single falsehood in the course of its 457 words. Instead, the Saudi-born president of the Ball State chapter of the Saudi-funded Muslim Student Association (MSA) made endless ad hominem attacks against FrontPageMag.com and columnist Thomas Ryan in a vacuous (and possibly libelous) fashion.
The heart of Alqurashi’s grievance is his claim that we wrongly branded the MSA as a pro-terrorist organization. He quotes that group’s constitution’s statement that it exists to “serve the best interests of Islam and Muslims in the United States.” This is like saying the Ku Klux Klan is merely an “organization of White Christians dedicated to the truth and education.” Islam expert Stephen Schwartz, himself a Muslim, notes the MSA is the leading evangelist of Wahhabism, Osama bin Laden’s radical brand of fundamentalist Islam. Among the MSA’s numerous pro-terrorist actions:
- MSA members at UCLA raised money for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists at their annual “Anti-Zionist Week.”
- Speaker Muammad Faheed told an MSA meeting at Queensborough Community College in New York, “The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it!”
- Nihad Awad addressed the 2003 Iowa Muslim Student Association Annual Conferences. Awad had told a college audience in 1994, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.”
- The University of Southern California MSA invited Taliban ambassador Sayyid Hashimi to speak on campus six months before 9/11.
- MSA at California State University Northridge held a fundraiser for Islamic Relief, an organization that received a $50,000 contribution from a front group run by Osama bin Laden.
- Dr. Abdulrahman Hijazi on James Madison University’s MSA 2002 “Jihad” panel, giving a speech on “The Islamic Peace Process and the Goals of Jihad.” He once extolled a terrorist “martyr” whose “hope of having the mercy of Allah…by one of the greatest good deeds, which is jihad, was more attractive to him than by being happy with his wife at home.”
- University of Idaho MSA President Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, was ordered deported for working for a radical Muslim charity with ties to terror. While on campus, he had sought access to a chemical lab containing nuclear material.
- Last October, the University of Pennsylvania MSA sponsored “Rev.” Bill Baker, the onetime chairman of the neo-Nazi Populist Party, a fact the local MSA president dubbed “irrelevant.”
- Thomas Ryan’s article notes MSA “is steering committee member of the Marxist-Leninist–front group International ANSWER” and has raised money for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, “a ‘charity’ organization that funded the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.” For some reason, Mr. Alqurashi chose not to refute these “claims.” Instead, he declared MSA “will continue to cooperate with those who work for the good of America.” ANSWER is front group of International Action Center, run by Ramsey Clark, who has offered his legal services to Saddam Hussein, and considered the UN’s timid WMD inspections an act of war against Iraq.
Alqurashi also claims we maligned Ball State Peace Studies Professor George Wolfe, yet he does not dispute that Wolfe’s specialty is the saxophone, that he gave antiwar students extra credit for attending a D.C. antiwar rally, nor that his assigned textbook blames the Cuban Missile Crisis on JFK and declares “one person’s ‘terrorist’ is another’s ‘freedom fighter.’”
Alqurashi called FrontPage a “radical right-wing online magazine.” David Horowitz has a 60-year affiliation with the civil rights movement and recently sponsored a Muslim student to study counterterrorism abroad. My own most recent column on this “radical” website suggested Democrats select a moderate party chairman.
Nor do we criticize only “intellectuals who do not embrace radical right-wing ideas.” We oppose any classroom indoctrination, from the left or right.
And contrary to what B.J. Paschal writes (“Horowitz History,” Dec. 12), tenured radicals, not David Horowitz, “started” the war over campus indoctrination when they transformed their lecture halls into political indoctrination mills. Professors like George Wolfe are further proof Indiana needs the Academic Bill of Rights to restrain their excesses.
Finally, the Star Press’s otherwise perfect editorial (“BSU Shouldn’t Avoid This Academic Debate,” Dec. 8) on the subject stated David Horowitz’s “verbal bomb-throwing tends to discredit” his conclusions. Calling a manifestly pro-terror organization “pro-terror” is hardly a rhetorical overreach. In light of the facts detailed above, it should be clear the MSA supports “bomb-throwing” of another kind.
Ben Johnson is Managing Editor of FrontPageMag.com and author of the book 57 Varities of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Charitable Giving.
This is the original Guest Editorial the Star Press ran on Monday by Ball State MSA President Fahad Alqurashi, which inspired Ben Johnson’s response.
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