How Islam infiltrated our universities:
The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network
By FrontPage Magazine
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 08, 2008
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The
following essay, adapted from the Introduction to this booklet, shows
how, as early as the 1980s, operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood,
parent group for al Qaeda and Hamas, formulated a blueprint for a
"jihadist process" that would ultimately sabotage the "miserable house"
of the United States. These Muslim Brotherhood operatives saw that the
work of undermining the U.S. could be best accomplished by the use of
front groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
and the Muslim Students Association. But while CAIR was designed to
work in the legal-cultural realm, posturing as another of the minority
rights groups functioning in the public square, the MSA's role was to
be restricted to college campuses, where it would advance the cause of
radical Islam and lead the effort to stigmatize Israel.
Over
the next several days, Front Page will publish profiles of individual
chapters of the MSA on a variety of campuses around the country,
showing how specifically they achieve the broad goals of the
organization. – The Editors
As
revealed in documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a
Texas court, the Muslim Students Association is a legacy project of the
Muslim Brotherhood.[1] The Brotherhood is an organization formed by a
Hitler-admiring Muslim named Hasan al-Bannain Egypt in 1928.[2] It was
designed to function as the spearpoint of the Islamo-fascist movement
and its crusade against the West.
The
Brotherhood spawned al-Qaeda and Hamas.[3] Its doctrines make up the
core of the terrorist jihad conducted by organizations such as Islamic
Jihad, Hezbollah, Hamas and the government of Iran.[4] Its agendas have
been clear since its creation: infiltration, subversion and global
terror with world conquest as the goal.
…To
establish one Islamic state of united Islamic countries, one nation
under one leadership whose mission will be to reinforce adherence to
the law of Allah...and the strengthening of the Islamic presence in the
world arena....The goal...is the establishment of a world Islamic
state.[5]
The
first target was the “near enemy” – the Arab states that al-Banna and
his followers felt had betrayed Islam. The United States – the “far
enemy” – would not become a specific focus of the Brotherhood until
many years later.
The
organization’s aspirations for world dominion seemed like a fantasy
until the Iranian revolution of 1979. But that event showed the
jihadists that they could conquer and govern a state and use it as a
base for Islamic revolution elsewhere. There was no doubt who the enemy
was. The Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeni coined the phrase “Great
Satan” and “Little Satan” to demonize the United States and Israel and
mark them for destruction.
“Destroying Western Civilization From Within”
A
formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the
Iranian revolution, in 1982.[6]. The plan was summarized in a 1991
memorandum written by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the Muslim
Brotherhood. “The process of settlement” of Muslims in America, Akram
explained, “is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process.’” This means that
members of the Brotherhood “must understand 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 and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s
religion is made victorious over all other religions.”[7]
This
memo surfaced in a Texas courtroom in the fall of 2007 after
prosecutors introduced it as evidence in the trial of the Holy Land
Foundation, once the largest Islamic charity in the United States.[8]
The HLF was charged with funneling charitable donations to the jihad
terrorists of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, a Brotherhood
organization that now controls the Gaza Strip. But the implications of
this document go far beyond the Holy Land Foundation.
It
is actually a blueprint for the subversion of American society, and the
eventual imposition of Islamic law in the United States. This would
mean an institutionalized oppression of women, homosexuals, and
religious minorities; the end of freedom of speech and the freedom of
conscience; and the replacement of democracy by theocracy.
U.S.
authorities had been keeping an eye on Brotherhood operatives even
before the memo surfaced. In 2001, U.S. officials accused Youssef Nada,
a member of the organization, of funding terrorism.[9] Two years later,
American investigators described Soliman Biheiri, a businessman in
Virginia, as the Brotherhood’s U.S. “financial toehold.”
Surveying
the Islamic organizations that existed in the U.S. in 1991, Mohamed
Akram declared in his memo: “The big challenge that is ahead of us is
how to turn these seeds or ‘scattered’ elements into comprehensive,
stable, ‘settled’ organizations that are connected with our Movement
and which fly in our orbit and take orders from our guidance.”
At
the end of the document, Akram provided “a list of our organizations
and the organizations of our friends” – apparently, those whom he
believed were likewise dedicated to this great project of sabotaging
the “miserable house” of American society. Surveying all these groups
filled him with enthusiasm: “Imagine if they all march according to one
plan!!!”[10]
Akram
contemplated a network of many overlapping groups, with personnel that
move from one to the other and hold positions in different
organizations simultaneously—an arrangement that resembles the
Communist Party’s creation of interlocking front groups during the Cold
War and complicates the task of understanding and tracking the pattern
of their activities.
The
organizations Akram saw as advancing the Islamo-Fascist movement in
America included, among many others, the Islamic Society of North
America, the North American Islamic Trust, the Islamic Circle of North
America, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, and the
Islamic Association for Palestine – from which came the Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR) three years later. But perhaps the
most important of these groups in terms of the long term infiltration
and conquest the Brotherhood envisioned was The Muslim Students
Association (MSA).
The Stealth Jihad of the MSA
Established
in January 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the
Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA
(also known as MSA National) currently has chapters on nearly 600
college campuses across North America.)[11] The relationship between
MSA National and the individual university chapters is not a fixed
hierarchy, but rather a loose connection. Thus the policies and views
of the national organization may differ from those of some of the local
chapters.) Stating that its mission is “to serve the best interest of
Islam and Muslims in the United States and Canada so as to enable them
to practice Islam as a complete way of life,”MSA is by far the most
influential Islamic student organization in North America.[12]
Founded
by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, MSA was named in Mohammed Akram’s
1991 memorandum as one of the Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations
of our friends” who shared the common goal of destroying America and
turning it into a Muslim nation. 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.”[13]
From
its inception, MSA had close links with the extremist Muslim World
League, whose chapters’ websites have featured not only Osama bin
Laden’s propaganda, but also publicity-recruiting campaigns for Wahhabi
involvement with the Chechen insurgents in Russia. According to author
and Islam expert Stephen Schwartz, MSA is a key lobbying organization
for the Wahhabi sect of Islam.[14]
MSA
solicited donations for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and
Development, whose assets the U.S. government seized in December 2001
because that organization was giving financial support to the terrorist
group Hamas. MSA also has strong ties to the World Assembly of Muslim
Youth.[15]
Charging
that U.S. foreign policy is driven by militaristic imperialism, MSA
steadfastly opposes the American military incursions into both
Afghanistan and Iraq.[16] The organization also follows the Arab
propaganda line in the Middle East conflict and has condemned the
anti-terrorist security fence that Israel has built in the West Bank as
an illegal “apartheid wall” that violates the civil and human rights of
Palestinians.
An
influential member of the International ANSWER steering committee, MSA
maintains a large presence at ANSWER-sponsored anti-war
demonstrations.[17] The pro-North Korea, pro-Saddam Hussein ANSWER is a
front organization of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.[18]
Local
chapters of MSA signed a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the
radical group Refuse & Resist (a creation of the Revolutionary
Communist Party’s) condemning military tribunals and the detention of
immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism
investigations.[19] The document read, in part: “They the U.S.
government are coming for the Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants.
… The recent ‘disappearances,’ indefinite detention, the round-ups, the
secret military tribunals, the denial of legal representation, evidence
kept a secret from the accused, the denial of any due process for Arab,
Muslim, South Asians and others, have chilling similarities to a police
state.”[20]
MSA has strongly opposed the Patriot Act, which it
describes as an “infamous” piece of legislation. The organization’s
chapters across the United States have similarly denounced virtually
every other national security initiative implemented by the U.S.
government since the 9/11 attacks.
MSA chose not to endorse or
participate in the May 14, 2005 “Free Muslims March Against Terror,” an
event whose stated purpose was to “send a message to the terrorists and
extremists that their days are numbered ... and to send a message to
the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek
freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.”[21]
But
while it is possible to understand its political orientation from some
of the positions it has taken on large national issues, the Muslim
Students Association comes into sharper focus in the actions of the
individual chapters that do its work every day on campuses across
America. The following analysis of 18 separate campus chapters of MSA
will make this clear.
To read "The MSA at UCLA," click here. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6A0F3548-0F31-456B-86CB-1391F8C7FD0B
To read "The MSA at Berkeley," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=274ECFEE-A822-42A7-B840-2EC28369A95F
To read "The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=71E533E2-AE2F-487B-9B41-3A36FF1C5308
To read "The MSA at Brown," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B939A66C-8A4A-4723-98C7-32AE57A1464B
To read "The MSA at Columbia," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1058397F-FE5C-4BF8-AE26-61C5808B83F2
To read "The MSA at Michigan State," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C15C6A4C-E2E2-4DE3-B986-F03F9E07280F
To read "The MSA at Ohio State," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=169B916D-5410-4859-8F97-D6432DC2A0D4
To read "The MSA at Penn State," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=0F2B8549-81DB-4DD6-A3AE-B543C2C20AE0
To read "The MSA at Queensborough Community College," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7F9EA13C-6307-4F44-910C-DD57F0E861B2
To read "The MSA at Temple," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9AE3C8EE-7DDC-4457-B905-ACFB325614E1
To read "The MSA at UC Santa Barbara," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C613657E-2520-4468-9562-8989E85D21E1
To read "The MSA at U Penn," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=369922A3-2292-44A5-9ECA-DF2905588AB2
To read "The MSA at Wisconsin," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F695A9B3-927D-4512-9A2C-36E66FCAD7EF
To read "The MSA at Virginia Commonwealth University," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BABEC53D-6448-46D6-803A-6DEB950AF67A
To read "Harvard Islamic Society," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1F44999A-D42A-42EF-89C9-861784F48BF4
To read "Johns Hopkins University Muslim Association," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7CD210CA-68B1-4DD9-B3C9-D167F4AA68E8
To read "The MSA at George Washington University," click here.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=28ABA0D1-3BE0-4F45-94CE-0A0058D60107
Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Published: December 13, 2005
The New York Times
Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies.
Harvard said it would create a universitywide program on Islamic studies, recruit new faculty members in the field, provide more support for graduate students and convert rare Islamic textual sources into digital formats to make them widely available.
"For a university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard have a strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in scope," said Steven E. Hyman, Harvard's provost, who will coordinate adopting the new program.
Georgetown said it would use the gift - the second-largest it has ever received - to expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which is part of its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. It said it would rename the center the H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
One gift that backfired, however, was a $10 million check he gave Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in October 2001 for the Twin Towers Fund, a charity to help survivors of uniformed workers who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The prince had expressed his condolences for the lives lost and condemned "all forms of terrorism," in a letter accompanying the gift.
Mayor Giuliani returned the gift when he learned that a news release quoted the prince as calling on the American government to "re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause."
It added, "Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek."
In an interview with The Financial Times this month, the prince, a nephew of the current king, was asked whether he regretted making those statements in 2001. He responded: "A friend of a nation has to say the truth any time. Although, if you ask me a question, 'If the Palestinian situation was resolved a day before 9/11, would 9/11 take place or not?' Most likely it would have taken place, yes. I have no problem."
He said he had Christian and Jewish friends. "Muslim, Christian, Jewish - I don't care about that," he said in the article.
The article added, "By Saudi standards the prince is a liberal."
After Sept. 11, he proposed democratic elections in Saudi Arabia.
Martin Kramer, the author of "Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America," which contends that the study of the Middle East and Islam is politically biased, said last night, "Prince Alwaleed knows that if you want to have an impact, places like Harvard or Georgetown, which is inside the Beltway, will make a difference."
Donella Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development at Harvard, said yesterday that the university was aware of the dispute in New York, but that it "has not been part of our gift negotiations."
The prince approached Harvard about six months ago, Ms. Rapier said, and the donation, like all large gifts, was vetted by the university's gift policy committee, on which she sits. The committee, which meets about once a month, is headed by the provost and includes Harvard'sgeneral counsel, its vice president for communications and two deans.
The committee's discussions "are private," Ms. Rapier said.
In making the two gifts, the prince focused on the importance of uniting disparate cultures.
Harvard's news release quoted him as saying that he hoped Harvard's Islamic studies program "will enable generations of students and scholars to gain a thorough understanding of Islam and its role both in the past and in today's world."
"Bridging the understanding between East and West is important for peace and tolerance," he said.
The Georgetown release quoted him as saying, "We are determined to build a bridge between Islam and Christianity for tolerance that transcends cultural and geographical boundaries."