Now that the Muslim Student Association (there are chapters at numerous universities and colleges) has introduced Islam Awareness Week, we would like to define September as (Militant) Islam Awareness Month. The following picture makes the concept pretty obvious. However, it is first necessary to show what Islam Awareness Week is really about.

The Muslim Student Association of the University of Kansas posted the following:

Imam Mahdi Bray is a long time civil and human rights activist. He is currently the Executive Director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, and the President of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and the Interfaith Alliance, America’s largest interfaith organization with over 150,000 members, and also on the advisory board of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

It’s hard to imagine any modern German calling himself “Fuhrer,” but Bray has no problem whatsoever in using the title that was originally used by the murdering slave trader who sacked Khartoum in 1885, and whose followers killed General Charles Gordon. The original Mahdi, who was portrayed by Sir Laurence Olivier in the movie, was a murderous demagogue who claimed to commune with Mohammed and/or Allah, and who justified mass murder as the means of achieving his ambitions. We have previously cited Mahdi Bray’s promotion of civil disobedience as a reason why his Muslim American Society should lose its 501(c)(3) tax exemption. The key point, however, is that the Muslim Student Association invited this troublemaker and demagogue to be a speaker for Islam Awareness Week. This is not anything that we would recognize as “moderate” Islam.

The Muslim Student Association is also involved with an organization, the International Solidarity Movement, that has actual contacts with Foreign Terrorist Organizations (as defined by the U.S. State Department) like Hamas. ISM leader Huwaida Arraf wrote in a letter to the Washington Post that the ISM talks to terrorist groups like Hamas, and the MSA co-sponsored an ISM rally at Berkeley.

ISM plays campus rallies, too—and not with peaceful types. A well-funded “annual” Palestinian Solidarity Movement National Student Conference in February 2002 allied closely with the Islamist Muslim Student Association. The MSA co-sponsored the University of California at Berkeley event, at which it spearheaded a call to divest investments in Israel. Three months later, 60 Solidarity Movement students attended MSA’s Washington, D.C., annual conference to advance divestment strategies. Like several other Islamist groups, MSA featured Corrie on its web page after her death.

It is therefore quite clear that the Muslim Student Association is trouble, and the MSA infests numerous colleges and universities. We even have one in our back yard, although it hasn’t made much noise since we wrote a couple of letters to the editor of the local paper. There is a lesson here. Even though the typical left-wing stooges at that university supported the MSA against another local man who made the mistake of not distinguishing militant “Muslims” from Muslims, they could do nothing when we made that distinction while pointing out how Saudi Arabia treats women and Christians. Our second attack on the MSA went unanswered, probably because they were defenseless.

The following is addressed intentionally to the Muslim Student Association, and also to Barbara Grossman of Tufts University. Professor Grossman is a prominent Democratic donor, and her husband is a fomer Democratic National Committee chair. Our intention is to show proper respect for the Committee on Student Life, as chaired by Barbara Grossman, and its statement that “Labeling Islam violent is unacceptable in any way, shape or form.”

Note the circled date on the calender, and the background images, as well as the burning Twin Towers and wreckage from 9/11. Lest anyone forget, the individuals responsible for these things were not chanting “Shma Yisrael,” “Hare Krishna,” or “Jesus Saves” when they murdered three thousand innocent people that day.

Having dealt with September 11, we can now proceed to a much happier anniversary: September 12.

Adam Zamoyski’s The Polish Way reports that the Crimean Horde ran away the instant its Khan saw the Polish cavalry. The Islamofascist Tartars, like jackals and carrion birds that haunt battlefields in the hope of getting a meal, would have been eager to help the Turks sack Vienna, smash babies’ heads into walls, rape women, and kill the old and the wounded. They had no desire whatsoever, though, to meet anyone who could fight back, and they especially did not want to fight Polish cavalry. The Tartars had fast horses and a head start, and the Poles were too busy slaughtering the Turks to bother with them, so they did not lose a single man. Our position is that we should recognize September 12 as King John Sobieski Day, an unofficial holiday like Pulaski Day and Koskiuszko Day.

Sobieski Day could be commemorated by the consumption of crescent pastries or bagels (modeled after the captured Turkish battle standards) with coffee (another battle prize taken by the Poles), much as St. Patrick’s Day involves the consumption of soda bread and corned beef. This would be a fitting addition to (Militant) Islam Awareness Month.