The Muslim Student Association’s Terror Problem
The end of summer is around the corner, and students are beginning to return to college campuses across the country. That means buying textbooks, rearranging class schedules, Saturday tailgate parties, and a host of academic and extracurricular activities.
One national student group gearing up for the upcoming academic year is the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Founded in 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and operated as an arm of the Saudi-funded, Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Muslim World League, the MSA is one of the oldest, largest, and most respected Islamic institutions in the country. They have chapters at more than 100 universities and colleges.
But despite its apparent respectability and polished public presentation, the MSA has a dark side.
Since its inception, the MSA has chronically been a vehicle of extremism, hatred, and incitement to violence. Its chapters host a wide variety of extremist speakers and have repeatedly raised funds for Islamic groups that have later been closed by the U.S. government for funding terrorism. For this reason, the MSA was identified in 2004 as one of 27 Islamic charities and groups in the U.S. under investigation by the Senate Finance Committee for terrorist support.
As a result of the long-time institutional extremism, the MSAs have also proved to be a fertile recruiting ground for terrorist organizations, such that a 2007 report on Islamic radicalization published by the New York City Police Department identified the MSA as one of the key “radicalization incubators” for homegrown terrorists (p. 68). This dubious distinction is not without cause.
One of the darkest secrets of the MSA, certainly never advertised by the organization or mentioned in their publications, is a rather lengthy list of top MSA leaders who have been arrested and convicted on a wide array of terrorism charges, ranging from material support of terrorist groups to being actively involved in terrorist plots.
It is important to stress that these are not fringe figures in the MSA organization, but some of its top leaders.
These include an MSA national president who was al-Qaeda’s top financier in the U.S., a chapter president who was one of al-Qaeda’s co-founders, and a former MSA faculty advisor who is currently the terrorist most wanted by the U.S. government. Other MSA leaders have been recently identified in several domestic and international terror plots, and some currently are facing terrorism charges.
The following list is by no means exhaustive:
- Earlier this month a Boston news outlet reported that Tarek Mehanna — currently facing indictment on terrorism material support charges with federal prosecutors alleging that Mehanna and his associates were planning domestic terror attacks — had represented himself as a MSA official in the student publication of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science where he attended. Curiously, the April 2007 issue of the school publication mentioned in the news report has recently been taken offline.
- Last September, Fox News reported that a top official of the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab, previously identified in recruitment videos as “Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki,” was in fact 25-year-old American-born Omar Hammami of Daphne, Alabama. Hammami had served as president of the MSA chapter at the University of South Alabama in 2001 and 2002. Speaking to the campus newspaper as MSA president after the 9/11 attacks, he complained of the troubles of living as a Muslim in America and that it was “difficult to believe that a Muslim could have done this.”
- In April 2003, the apartment of Arizona State MSA president Hassan Alrefae and vice president Jaber Al-Thukair was raided by the FBI in a search for weapons as part of a larger investigation into possible terrorist training by foreign student members of the MSA. The group had been under surveillance by the FBI, who videotaped them engaged in weapons training, with all but Alrefae doing so in violation of their student visas that prohibit handling firearms. Alrefae is the son of a high-ranking member of the Saudi Royal Navy.
- Ali Asad Chandia, who was convicted in June 2006 on terror charges as part of the Northern Virginia jihad network, had previously served as president of the Montgomery College (MD) MSA in 1998 and 1999. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for convictions on three separate counts of conspiracy and material support to the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group.
- Abdurahman Alamoudi, who served as MSA national president in 1982 and 1983, is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for his extensive international terrorist activities. Once the most prominent Muslim political activist in the country, and counselor to U.S. presidents and cabinet officials, the U.S. government now claims that he was one of al-Qaeda’s top fundraisers. A 2005 U.S. Treasury press release said that Alamoudi’s arrest was “a severe blow to al-Qaeda, as Alamoudi had a close relationship with al-Qaeda and had raised money for al-Qaeda in the United States.”
- Aafia Siddiqui was convicted this past February of attempted murder of a U.S. Army captain while she was incarcerated and being interrogated by authorities at a prison in Afghanistan. According to news reports, she had been captured in 2008 with explosives, deadly chemicals, and a list of New York City landmarks. Described as “al-Qaeda’s Mata Hari” and “Lady al-Qaeda,” Siddiqui was active in the MSA at MIT, where she studied neuroscience. A 2005 article in Vogue, which speculated that Siddiqi’s radicalization began with her association with the MSA, noted that Siddiqi had authored a guide published by the national MSA organization that encouraged MSA members not to water down Islamic doctrine — particularly on the topics of jihad and the treatment of women, saying that perseverance was needed until “America becomes a Muslim land.” Siddiqui is scheduled to be sentenced on September 23.
This organization has more terrorist links that Hamas & should be disbanded immediately. It is a travisty of justice that such evil groups are allowd on US colleges. If any Jewish or Christian organizations had so many terrorist links they would be disbanded immediately. The fact that is still operating show how foolish, stupid & naive our gov’t is. They are digging their & our own graves…
And Muslims in this country wonder why that have such a bad public relations problem with the rest of the world. Oh, I don’t know, maybe it’s because so many of them try to KILL people who don’t agree with them? Could that be it? Could it have something to do with all the suicide bombings, beheadings, and stonings that happen on almost a daily basis in the Muslim world? Could it have something to do with calling anyone who doesn’t agree with you an “infidel?”
Just a guess here, but how many “mixers” does the Muslim Student Association (MSA) sponsor on college campuses promoting “tolerance” and “bridge-building” to OTHER religions? When was the last time the MSA held a meeting with a Jewish group on campus promoting “tolerance” and “friendship?” Oh, I’ve got a better one. How many MSA members have joined the ROTC or have gone into the armed services? If the answer to all those questions is not many (or worse, no any), then this organization should not be allowed on any campus. Any organization that inspires hatred and bigotry, let alone terrorism, should not only be stopped, but its members should be watched by the FBI.
And Muslims wonder why they have such a lousy reputation in this country.
Liberty-I can name probable MSA member ho went into the Armed Forces-Major Malik Nidal Hassan. he certainly performed as the MSA expected.
The MSA is obviously a quasi-terrorist organization. Just imagine if Christians or Jews had a similar org with so many direct ties to terrorism. The fools running the country should ban the MSA before these nuts bury us, but as in most things, they have their heads in the sand & are kissing the posterior ends of all Muslim orgs. This is simply disgraceful!
If memory serves the MSA was suspended for a year from one California campus for their activities. I don’t remember much more about the case.
LMAO, next people will wonder why so many in the Hitler Youth joined the SS.
Why do top MSA leaders keep joining terror groups and involving themselves in terror plots?
Because the words of their demonic ‘god’ and their pedophile prophet Muhammed(Pig Blood Upon Him) demand it.
That was a low blow but it shouldn’t come as a surprise from a moron and prejudice person such as yourself.
The MSA is just another student organization out of many, like the SDS, that have always been welcomed on the campuses of our left wing dominated campuses. The only reason they have any following is that the principles that undergird our GREAT COUNTRY are no longer being taught and POLICY based on those principles is ABSENT from our foreign policy establishment. Do grants go to countries that don’t follow Article 1, section 2 of our Constitution (ie. electing the tax man EVERy 2 YEARS!)? Yep. Why shouldn’t we be accused of supporting tyrants when we leave a people unsure of when they’ll get another vote! Do we sponsor trips for religious…people..like GZM Imam Rauf to travel the world begging for money from countries that don’t support our First Amendment? Of course. Even Afganistan can’t seem to get worked up about stoning lovers to death! Certainly we should be accused of supporting barbaric regimes. We note the anniversary of the Prague Spring suppression by the Soviets and their tanks but huge majorities of the population think being unarmed in your own self-defense is proper. We deserve what comes our way if we won’t defend ourselves. VOTE DEMOCRAT!
Inserting moron brain….”how can you possibly paint all Muslims with such a broad brush, suggesting that just because of the actions of a small few, that this somehow reflects the actions of all, peace-loving Muslims (btw, Islam means peace). It’s like saying all Christians or all white people are murderers because of Timothy McVeigh.”…removing moron brain.
Wow, that’s what the inability to think critically feels like.
It’s easy if you try.
“Only fraction of Vikings comite violence. Most are traders and farmers.”
Funny, I never feel that there are only a small few muslims who are hostile to the non muslims.
Can I assume muslims who pray at mosques blasting prayer call through loudspeaker loudly are peaceful? I don’t think so because if churches do the same, they will be shut down immediately for not being peaceful. Yet, the muslims never complain about their mosques’ prayer call.
So, the “peaceful” muslims who do not mind terrorizing the non muslims using the sound of prayer call are not peaceful.
If you do not like the word “terrorizing” I used, then go to a mosque that has a loudspaker in the early morning and listen to its morning call prayer. For me, it is really loud and it certainly can heighten my tension.
Too bad that isn’t what he said…but that is no doubt what you heard.
Who’s moronic here? The guy who spoke truth (him) or the guy who can’t challenge it without disparaging comments about a lack of intelligence minus anything to actually prove it (you)?
OK, the comment was meant as a swipe against the type of easy, obvious, and wholly meaningless reply that I find so irritatingly commonplace among the media elite, from Oprah to the universities, the MSM news, that reflexively bends so far over backward in its attempt to apologize for the actions of an obviously aggressive and violent death cult, that it appears that they have their heads wrapped around and up their asses. These people condemn generalization as a deficiency of thinking, when, as Hegel rightly point out “generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.” If you cannot discern that the Muslims are up to no good by this point, based on a huge pile of evidence easily available, then you are a man with his head stuffed up his own end; Islam is the problem, and a big one. The comment above about Vikings being peaceable farmers is in the same spirit, as would be the idea of seeing the Mongol hordes outside the gates and noting that maybe they were here to bring a more effective mail system.
Watch “Mars Invades,” an inadvertently great film about just how credulous people can be–just before they get whacked by a gang of killers; that’s about how I see the Muslims and their peace plan.
The MSA and all all its Muslim-Brotherhood-affiliated-support organizations, some posing as charities, are actively engaged in soft jihad, destroying the United States with a thousand papercuts, a thousand subtle and not so subtle orchestrated disruptions, wherever then can.
I do have a favorite MSA chick, here exchanging “ideas” with David Horowitz at the University of San Diego.
Watch to the end. This chick will speak volumes to you.
MSA stands for Malicious Stupid Agendists
Not to mention Timothy was not even a Christian.
He was an Atheist who believed in science:
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1189
Let’s see now….
Mohammed was a terrorist….a looter, a plunderer, a pillager.
A mass murderer, a butcherer, a beheader, a torturer of helplessly bound prisoners.
An unapologetic serial child rapist. Who forced children to watch their parents torturous murders, before defiling and enslaving them.
A man of such an extreme and uncontrolled violence so evil, he condemnes the ENTIRE POPULATION of the world to perpetual war terror and violence, FOREVER, if all do not immediately submit to him.
Also remember folks, this is their version of him, proudly proclaimed in their holy books. There is no other legend of this guy but theirs. And it is by all accounts, a nasty evil tale of violence and hatred they make no apology for, one they are in fact proud of.
And now, were supposed to be surprised…shocked, shocked I say…when we discover that College age (warrior age) believers in this tyrant just happen to clandestinely support terrorist causes?
The problem with Muslim student organizations is that they are MUSLIM student organizations. You cannot separate Muslims from Mohammed, and Mohamed equals terrorism. You cannot be a follower of him, without believing in, and supporting his cause. They know this, but somehow we don’t?
Imagine if you will, a college administration allowing (funding!) a white supremist Nazi shinhead group on campus.
Told its just a “Northern European cultural association”
They only follow Hitlers “business and technology economic models” and are disappointed people would suspect any ill will, given that the majority of Nazis never actually killed anyone themselves….it was only a few extremist that gave a modern, noble, advanced civilization a bad name.
Would anyone actually believe them?
Or would they (rightly so) call Bullshit, straight up in their face, and say they’re nothing but a front group for something evil and repugnant to all decent people, and have no place among civilized society. Yank their funding (as if they ever would have gotten any to begin with) close their office, and otherwise give them the physical and idiological “bums rush” off campus?
Islam is what it is. They know what that means.
Why cant we just say it too?
As a young student first in Cairo, later in Kuwait, Yasser Arafat made his career as a “community organizer”. Later we saw how the current Hamas boss, Khaled Meshal, the one the Mossad flunkies failed to put out commission with a powerful syringe in Amman, was also a student activist in Kuwait. This is the breeding ground for terrorists. Columbia University served as the breeding ground for America’s modern traitors, the SDS, it moved to Chicago University and Berkley. Most bomb making for Hamas was manufactured in the Islamic University in Gaza, and most of the hard core brains of the Palestinian “Resistance” came from Beir Zeit University near Nablus. Several cells operated within, pretending to be a cool IT group. They were so undercover, few knew what they were about, but they were loyal to a mysterious Al Qaida affiliated outfit, which even the local Hamas “Maximum Leaders” were not aware of. Those not familiar with the history of the spread of the Facistic Islamic Muslim Brotherhood and its many off shoots, will simply suffer the consequence of dealing with it under much more unpleasant terms than just reading about it.
Mr Poole-the old kine says if it quacks kie a duck, etc etc etc. The MSA is a part of the virulently islamic supremacist group the muslim brotherhood. Among there better known jihaddis are Ayman Al Zawahari and the former jihaddi professor Sami Al Arain(who, in typical commie academia fashion, taught at USF for how many years??????). Ive dealt personally(even violently once-i beat down a MSA punk harassing my daughter)with these scum and they are violently crazy. They shouldnt even be allowed to be here and should be treated as we treat a criminal pointing a gun in our direction.
“These include an MSA national president who was al-Qaeda’s top financier in the U.S., a chapter president who was one of al-Qaeda’s co-founders, and a former MSA faculty advisor who is currently the terrorist most wanted by the U.S. government. Other MSA leaders have been recently identified in several domestic and international terror plots, and some currently are facing terrorism charges.”
Geez, how old are these “students”?
They are just following Mohammad. What’s to worry about?
ROPMA!
Did my post get lost???
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…some chapters have been outspoken in their demand for a moderate, non-violent form of Islam.
I’d be more impressed if they had gotten anything but the back of a hand from the others.
“Why do top MSA leaders keep joining terror groups and involving themselves in terror plots?”
Because that’s what muslims do.
the MSA is insinuating itself into our culture through the offices of our own politicians and the thugs and despots responsible for the vile actions of the followers of Islam.
that is, unless we simply hit these rodents in their faces with garbage can covers.
i vote the latter.
Because while it’s illegal to BE a terrorist, it is legal to TEACH people to become terrorists. And it’s legal to GLORIFY terrorism.
And the majority of Muslim institutions DO glorify and teach people to become terrorists.
The cleverness of the structure of Islam is that most Muslims only quietly condone terrorism and do not perpetrate it directly themselves. That way they have a convenient excuse to why we can’t blame the entire religion. This way the cult can create an endless supply of terrorists who will do the dirty deeds on behalf of the majority. All the while the cult itself has a perfect alibi and therefore can avoid scrutiny.
An added bonus for them is that liberals gets suckered right into their strategy.
That’s why.
It shouldn’t be legal to glorify terrorism and show support. People screaming Death to the West post-911 need to face severe punishment.
People cite 1st Amendment but look at the 2nd Amendment. Right to bear arms but look: not everyone has that right. If you’re a felon, you do not have that right.
Let’s put in a clause for the first Amendment also. Some things just need to be off limits. Like glorifying terrorism and provoking people to act against the country.
The USA should not harbor traitors who leech off of the rest of us! Using our freedom, which they so enjoy to threaten us. This is unacceptable.
Islamic Insights into Islam
Some people firmly believe that we are known by the company we keep. I’m not certain whether that qualifies as an established truism but we can certainly be known by the manner in which we treat our own.
Islam, Islamic nations, Muslims generally treat “their own” dismally at best and often inhumanely.
Take, for example, Islamic Pakistan which is currently being almost being flooded out of existence.
One would think that fellow Islamic nations, a number of which are wealthy beyond imagining, would be lined up to offer financial and humanitarian assistance to the millions of Pakistanis.
If one so thought, one would be miserably wrong. What aid is being sent is predominantly provided by private Muslim groups and charities not by Muslim countries which, for the most part, are practicing a policy of benign neglect toward fellow Islamic Pakistan.
That would be the same policy of neglect applied to Muslim Palestinians whose plight is bemoaned by the Islamic world at the same time it makes no effort to alleviate Palestinian suffering.
However, Islamists also demonstrate their inhumanity toward their own in a number of other ways. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1854)
Anwar Al-waki is (#1) on the terrorist watchlist. He served as Pres. of the MSA at Colorado State University. He attended San Diego State University in 1994.
I’m asking Congress to pass a law that would require colleges and universities to pledge not to use resources for support of a group identitied by the feds as a foreign terrorist organization. The Supreme Court recently upheld a the federal statute prohibiting support for foreign terrorist groups. The Court also upheld a law that allows universities to require student groups to accept “all comers.”
The measure should have bi-partisan support, but would most likely be championed by Republicans in Congress when they re-assume leadership control after the November election.
I’m not aware yet of a link between MSAs (or other groups) and direct support of foreign terrorist groups – or whether MSAs actively support fundamentalism. The assumption, of course, is that student groups promote peace and tolerance. However, there does appear to be proof that some student groups that sympathize with the Palestinians are in support of Hamas and Hezbollah. These student groups have been leading efforts to get student governments (and university governing boards) to boycott Israel. Whether the groups are fronts for terror groups is certainly of concern to intelligence agencies.
People concerned about this issue should contact Congress to support the measure. Congress can deny funds to colleges and universities that refuse to enforce federal law banning support for terrorist groups.
“All I Ever Needed to Know about Islam, I Learned on 9/11″
After those planes struck America on September 11th, 2001, many relatives of the victims roamed the smoking rubble and toxic air of Ground Zero in the vain hope of some word, any word, on their missing loved ones.
Few received any word.
By the very nature of their quest, all of those who posted notices on those dusty, dirt- encrusted doors and walls left standing in the vicinity of Ground Zero seeking information on fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters were emotionally moving but one was exceptionally so. A small boy carried a large sign asking, “Has Anyone Seen My Daddy?” with a photo of his dad attached.
It’s unlikely that anyone had seen the boy’s father.
It’s far more probable that he was one of those vaporized by the ferocity of the planes’ impacts, burned alive, crushed in the falling debris of two thousand-foot towers, or he was one of those many and still-uncounted who chose to escape the searing flames by a few moments of deadly exhilaration before they were literally obliterated when their bodies smashed into the pavement.
Too graphic? Too Much Information? Well, too damned bad for any overly-sensitive psyches out there. 9/11 is what it is, was what it was, and to hide from its realities is both an act of pusillanimity and perilously un-American. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1857)
This organization in my city of Columbus Ohio needs to be investigated and I will look further into it.