Monday, May 28, 2007
At Family Security Matters, Luke Sheahan has an article on the Wahhabi-connected Muslim Student Association: The Muslim Students’ Association Associates with All the Wrong Folks:
This is a sobering glimpse of what the MSA is up to on college campuses. More frightening is that according to the MSA itself, there are 600 MSA chapters in universities in America and Canada, 150 of which are affiliated with the national MSA. The College Democrats of America reportedly at their height have had 500 active chapters. It is disturbing that a group with political and financial ties to hostile foreign governments has a sufficiently significant number of chapters on college campuses to rival one of our major political parties. If it were simply a religious group promoting Islam, I wouldn’t be so worried. But as you can see, MSA associates with all the wrong folks.
Related: Daniel Pipes has gotten around to posting about his disrupted talk (one of many) at UCLA: In a post full of interesting tid-bits, one of the parts that stands out is the cavalier attitude of the administration toward the possibility of any sort of disciplinary action:
There were more than four hundred people in the audience. An additional twenty or so protestors were silent and exited quickly without incident.
The four who overstepped the program's protocol were removed quickly and handled appropriately by university administrators and police.
We are committed to providing a secure environment for civil discourse. We believe this momentary interruption did not constitute a significant interference with your presentation or ensuing discussion...
Part of discipline is not just stopping the behavior, but ensuring it does not repeat. UCLA has lost the thread, and I'm quite sure this is the problem at most campuses these days.
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