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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 25, 2015, 03:22:55 pm
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SDSU: Muslim Brotherhood-linked student group rallies not against jihad terror, but against “Islamophobia”
November 25, 2015 9:22 am By Robert Spencer 6 Comments
“A list of demands posted on Monday to the SDSU Muslim Students Association Facebook page includes: zero tolerance for ‘Islamophobic’ speech.” In other words, they want the university to set them up as arbiters of what is acceptable speech, so that they can stifle any criticism of Islam and jihad terror, in accord with Sharia blasphemy laws.
According to Discover the Networks, “The Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA (also known as MSA National), was established mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Nyack College theologian Larry A. Poston writes that “many of the founding members of this agency [MSA] were members of, or had connections to,” the Muslim Brotherhood or Jamaat-i-Islami. The three most significant founders of MSA were Hisham al Talib, Jamal Barzinji, and Ahmed Totanji, and all of whom were MB leaders of Iraqi descent. Other noteworthy individuals who served as early co-founders of MSA were Mahboob Khan and Malika Khan.”
MSA-SDSU
“Muslims at SDSU Stage ‘Anti-Islamophobia’ Rally,” by Michelle Moons, Breitbart, November 24, 2015:
Members of the Muslim Students Association at San Diego State University (SDSU) held a rally Monday rally against Islamophobia after a reported attack that the group is highlighting as a “hate crime.”
A list of demands posted on Monday to the SDSU Muslim Students Association Facebook page includes: zero tolerance for “Islamophobic” speech; mandatory training for faculty, staff and students; increased coursework offered on Islam; more money for the Center for Intercultural Relations; and “that the SDSU administration address, alleviate, and eliminate systems of oppression that disproportionately target students of color, womyn [sic], and all marginalized students on campus.”
The incident referenced in the demonstration happened last Thursday. According to local ABC News affiliate 10 News, campus police say that a yet-unidentified twenty-something white man pulled off a woman’s headscarf in a campus parking lot and hurled racial comments at her. The report indicated that she was not injured in the altercation.
The Muslim Students Association called for students to come forward with information, while urging students to “create a more inclusive campus climate by promoting tolerance and acceptance between different cultures and religions.”
Ironically, SDSU has hosted anti-Israel events in the recent past, as has the Muslim Students Association, which supports an ongoing campaign for divestment from Israel.
SDSU has also experienced other problems with anti-Israel rhetoric. In 2013, the professor of an Arabic language course at SDSU eliminated the country of Israel on a map. The instructor replaced Israel with “Palestine.” After the pro-Israel group Stand With Us called out the professor and demanded action on the part of the university, SDSU issued a statement calling the map “inaccurate” and “unacceptable.”…
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/san-diego-state-university-muslim-brotherhood-linked-student-group-rallies-not-against-jihad-terror-but-against-islamophobia