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Muslim Student Association: Islamofascist Troublemakers at Penn State

“Muslim Student Association’s Response to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW)” (Penn State Daily Collegian) attempts to whitewash militant “Islam” while denouncing Islamofascism Awareness Week as racist and intolerant. We have six words for them: “If the shoe fits, wear it.” Another Muslim Student Association, in fact, invited a genuine neo-Nazi to the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, so “fascist” hits the nail on the head.

The Muslim Student Association’s taqqiya begins,

Labeling an entire religion as fascist is offensive, inaccurate and inappropriate since it conveys a faulty image of more than a thousand Muslims at Penn State, and a billion Muslims around the world.

The Muslim Student Association is lying, a practice that comes naturally to Islamofascists, about Islamofascism Awareness Week. No one has labeled the entire religion as fascist. Islamofascists are individuals who invoke Islam as an excuse to behave like fascists, and their victims often include genuine Muslims who want only to live in peace with their neighbors. The MSA needs to create a phony issue as a smokescreen behind which to hide before it can continue with its strident politically correct squealing.

The Muslim Student Association continues,

Such a label trespasses the frontiers of freedom of speech that is bounded by the infringement of other people’s rights with respect to freedom of belief and falsified attack on their personal integrity.

Penn State’s Muslim Student Association is now attempting to censor David Horowitz and the other sponsors of Islamofascism Awareness Week by saying that the label Islamofascist, which fits the Muslim Student Association like a tailored glove, “trespasses the frontiers of freedom of speech that is bounded by the infringement of other people’s rights with respect to freedom of belief and falsified attack on their personal integrity.” In other words, us infidels and kafirs should not have the First Amendment right to expose the conduct of Islamofascists, a category that (as shown below) easily encompassess Penn State’s Muslim Student Association.

The biggest fear among Muslim students, faculty, administrators, and community is that the event creates an environment of intolerance, fear, and prejudice. Faculty could be perceived by their students as fascists; students could view their colleagues as promoters of fascist agendas, and staff could be alienated by colleagues and superiors.

Penn State’s Muslim Student Association is already guilty of precepitating a fascistic incident with the aid of complicit faculty members in the School of Visual Arts.

PSU censors exhibit By Jessica Remitz Collegian Staff Writer

For Penn State student Josh Stulman, years of hard work ended in disappointment yesterday when the university cancelled his upcoming art exhibit for violation of Penn State’s policies on nondiscrimination, harassment and hate.

Three days before his 10-piece exhibit — Portraits of Terror — was scheduled to open at the Patterson Building, Stulman (senior-painting and anthropology) received an e-mail message from the School of Visual Arts that said his exhibit on images of terrorism “did not promote cultural diversity” or “opportunities for democratic dialogue” and the display would be cancelled.

…Charles Garoian, professor and director of the School of Visual Arts, said Stulman’s controversial images did not mesh with the university’s educational mission.

The decision to cancel the exhibit came after reviewing Penn State’s Policy AD42: Statement on Nondiscrimination and Harassment and Penn State’s Zero Tolerance Policy for Hate, he wrote.

…Stulman said advertisements for the event were defaced in the Patterson and School of Visual Arts buildings, one of which had a large swastika on it.

After Penn State President Graham Spanier stepped in to mitigate the damage that was being caused to his university’s reputation, Professor Garoian apologized to Mr. Stulman.

Charles Garoian, director and professor of art education, sent an e-mail apology to student Josh Stulman yesterday — a week since he decided to cancel Stulman’s art exhibit, Portraits of Terror.

…Muslim Student Association Vice President Heather Barton wrote that it was legally wrong to cancel the exhibit, but she thought Garoian should not suffer “any enormous consequences.”

“I personally feel very hurt and threatened by this exhibit, and I know that a lot of other Muslim and International students do too,” she wrote. “I definitely feel that this exhibit [threw] gasoline on the already burning fire of hate and ignorance towards Muslims and peoples of Middle Eastern origin.”

We do not see why Muslim students should feel hurt or threatened by an exhibit that condemns terrorists, unless they sympathize with terrorists. Noting a recent poll that shows that 60 percent of American Muslims under 30 are more loyal to Islam than to the United States, the proposition that a rather high proportion of Penn State’s Muslim Student Association sympathizes with suicide bombers and the perpetrators of 9/11 becomes eminently reasonable. “If the shoe fits, wear it.” Furthermore, there is nothing hateful or ignorant in the least about pointing out that the individuals who cut the throats of flight attendants and flight crews on 9/11 before flying planes full of innocent people into buildings full of more innocent people were not chanting “Shma Yisrael,” “Hare Krishna,” or “Jesus Saves.” They were chanting to Allah who, when we last checked, is the Islamic Deity.

Instead of trying to censor artwork that condemns terrorism, the Muslim Student Association should be denouncing terrorists as mufsidoon (evildoers) who commit tajdeef [blasphemy against Allah] by using Islam to justify hirabah [forbidden killing of innocents]. Since the Muslim Student Association, not only at Penn State but elsewhere, is running interference for the mufsidoon instead, we must come to the obvious conclusion. “If the shoe fits, wear it.”

We reiterate that most Muslims do not share or defend this ideology of mindless violence, but Penn State’s Muslim Student Association did defend it by attacking Mr. Stulman’s exhibit. “If the shoe fits, wear it.” Furthermore, although Ms. Barton says Stulman’s exhibit should not have been cancelled, the MSA’s hand was very deep in this matter.

Penn State officials and the Muslim Student Association advisor who professed concern about Stulman’s work refused Stulman’s repeated efforts to meet with them.

Penn State art professor Robert Yarber, also a named defendant in this lawsuit, labeled Stulman a racist propagandist who promoted Islamophobia, and said Israel was a terrorist state that had no right to exist.

Hillel advisor Tuvia Abramson continues,

In my 23 years in Hillel on 3 different campuses I have not seen an act so blatant as the act of censorship, discrimination, and anti-Semitism like the one which applies to Joshua Stulman. This was not a single act. This was systematic abuse and intimidation which was applied by the School of Visual Arts to coerce the student and force him to cancel his art exhibition all because of its political content. The message of Joshua’s exhibit was this: When you preach hate, teach hate, and indoctrinate children with hate…..you will have terror. When you use the airways and the political system to reinforce hate, you create a mechanism by which these children will learn how and when to destroy innocent life. [This is apparently the message to which the Muslim Student Association objected.]

This message was blocked by the director of the School of Visual Arts and its faculty without discussion or review of most of the artwork with the student Joshua Stulman. The director issued a statement canceling the exhibit stating the cancellation was based on Penn State’s Policy AD42 about Zero Tolerance for Hate and that Joshua’s work did not promote a democratic dialogue or cultural diversity.

The second reason stated for canceling the exhibit was due to the sponsorship of Hillel for the reception on opening night. Both of these statements were false, misleading, and were never discussed prior to receiving the letter of cancellation. They were fake excuses to find justification to shut up the exhibit because of its political content, which did not go along with the political opinion or agenda of Professor Charles Garoian and art lecturer and advisor Robert Yarber.

We note again that Professor Garoian has apologized to Mr. Stulman. As far as we are concerned, he is therefore no longer part of the problem. The Muslim Student Association which, as shown above, may have played a role in instigating this incident to begin with, isn’t merely part of the problem; it IS the problem. It is enough of a problem that the desirability of providing it with University funding and facilities (at the expense of Pennsylvania taxpayers) becomes highly debatable. There is a crater in Pennsylvania where Flight 93 went down thanks to the ideology that the Muslim Student Association seems so determined to defend and whitewash.

Penn State’s Muslim Student Association is only one of a network of troublemaking campus organizations. The one at the University of Pennsylvania (in Philadelphia, no relation to the Pennsylvania State University in State College) invited a genuine neo-Nazi to campus. Unlike the First Amendment rights of the Jew at Penn State, however, those of the neo-Nazi were apparently respected.

Muslim Students at Penn Sponsor Nazi
By Jonathan Calt Harris
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, October 09, 2003
This week the University of Pennsylvania’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) is celebrating its “Islam Awareness Week.” For the keynote address on Thursday, October 9, the MSA invited “Reverend” William W. Baker, a former chairman of a racist and anti-Semitic organization, the Populist Party.[1]

Baker, the founder and director of Christians and Muslims for Peace (CAMP) will be one of two invited speakers and the first non-Muslim ever invited to speak at this annual week-long event.[2]

…Baker was in the news in 2002 when he was fired by Rev. Robert Schuller of Crystal Cathedral Ministries,[4] following an exposé in the Orange County Weekly, for his ties to neo-Nazism and his anti-Semitic writings.

…The weekly’s investigation revealed that Baker had served as the Populist Party’s chairman in 1984 and organized its convention that year. The Populist Party was an initiative of Willis Carto, the well-known neo-Nazi figure also known for founding the Institute for Historical Review, a group devoted to Holocaust denial,[6] and publisher of the nation’s foremost anti-Semitic newspaper, The SPOTLIGHT (now reorganized as the American Free Press).

Baker has a long record of anti-Semitism; for example, his self-published 1982 diatribe, “Theft of a Nation,” called for the dismantling of the “Zionist State.”[7] In a 1983 speech to the racist Christian Patriot Defense League in Missouri, Baker referred to the Reverend Jerry Falwell as “Jerry Jewry” (for his friendliness to Jews), and his disgust at traveling to New York City, getting off the plane to meet, “pushy, belligerent American Jews.”[8]

…The Populist platform distributed at 1984 convention included provisions calling for the repeal of sections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the restoration of segregation laws.

Penn’s Muslim Student Association is therefore not only Islamofascist, but old-fashioned fascist (the Hitler/Mussolini kind) as well. Next we come to the Muslim Student Association at Tufts University that, again with the aid of complicit faculty members like Barbara Grossman, engaged in arguably “fascistic” censorship of a student publication. According to Town Hall’s Ben Shapiro,

On Monday evening at Tufts University, I attended a long, grueling show trial — the kind of show trial that doubtless will be repeated at campuses across the United States. This show trial was convened with the sole purpose of punishing The Primary Source, Tufts’ lone conservative periodical.

What was The Source’s sin? On December 6, 2006, The Source printed a tasteless parody carol entitled “O Come, All Ye Black Folk.” The carol was written from the perspective of an admissions officer, admitting students solely based on racially discriminatory stereotypes: “All come! Blacks, we need you, / Born into the ghetto. / O Jesus! We need you now to fill our racial quotas.” The point of the carol, the editors later said, was that affirmative action is inherently degrading to racial minorities. After the carol was misinterpreted, the editors repeatedly apologized for printing it.

In the April 11, 2007, issue, The Source printed a page entitled “Islam: Arabic Translation: Submission.” The page carried quotes from the Koran juxtaposed with facts about certain adherents of Islam — their involvement with terrorism, discrimination against women, and the slave trade, among others.

…So the CSL held a hearing to determine whether The Source ought to be punished. The show trial was closed to outside media; I was only present because members of The Primary Source editorial board asked if I would give a closing statement on their behalf.

Barbara Grossman, the radical left chair of the CSL, compared printing the carol to spray-painting a swastika on a synagogue. Another CSL member stated that labeling Islam violent was unacceptable in any way, shape or form.

Daniel Halper’s “Several Standards” adds,

The CSL’s incentives to find the Source guilty of “harassment” and “creating a hostile environment” were extreme. The committee’s chair, Barbara Grossman (the wife of former Democratic National Committee chairman, Steve Grossman), has donated over $70,000 to democratic candidates in the last four years and was unable to contain her frequent, biased comments throughout the hearing. As expected, a week and a half after the five-and-a-half-hour hearing, the committee found the publication guilty of both charges.

In this case, the Muslim Student Association was definitely the instigator and perpetrator of the entire incident.

….The second [complaint], filed by the Muslim Student Association (“MSA”), represented by Shirwac Mohamed and Nayema Khan, charged The Primary Source with harassment and creating a hostile environment on campus through the publication of “Islam-Arabic Translation: Submission,” a commentary published in its April 11, 2007 edition that imitated the format of the MSA’s advertisement for events during Islamic Awareness Week.

While the Muslim Student Association has the First Amendment right–despite its total disrespect and contempt for the First Amendment right of others–to spew its propaganda and lies on American campuses, it does not have the right to university funding, funds taken from student tuition and activity fees, and especially taxpayers (who pay for state universities like Penn State) to further its agenda. Pennsylvania’s taxpayers need to take a closer look at what is happening at Penn State, and perhaps ask their legislators to do something about this problem.

We also have a Muslim Student Association at Wilkes University. It allowed itself to make noises in the local newspaper last year, in response to a dentist who wrote some negative things about Islam. It is no longer making noises, at least not outside of Wilkes University. Perhaps our own exposure of how women, gay people, and religious minorities are treated in Islamic countries encouraged it to lie low, and none of the faculty members who had been bleating on its behalf wanted to take us on over the matter. This underscores our fundamental belief that, if one can bring oneself to ignore the usual squeals about racism, intolerance and of course diversity, and go right down their throats, leftists run like rats. Now it’s time for Penn State’s Muslim Student Association to scurry for its rat hole, and quickly.

Attention, Penn State Women. This is what the Muslim Student Association doesn’t want Islamofascism Awareness Week to make you “aware” of:

In the United States, you take it for granted that you are legally the equals of men, with the same right to vote, and the same legal rights in courts of law. This is not true in barbaric Islamofascist nations.
* Saudi Arabia considers women half-human for “blood money” (wrongful death) compensation.
* Saudi Arabia is holding several female American citizens in white slavery.
* In many Islamic countries, the legal testimony of a man is worth that of two or even four women.
* In many Islamic countries, laws and/or customs allow men to batter, abuse, and even kill women who displease them. Google on the phrase “honor killing” to learn more.
* Iran sentenced a young woman to death for killing a man who was trying to rape her. (Had he succeeded, she would probably have been stoned to death for adultery.)

Islamic Gender Apartheid, by Phyllis Chesler, describes how women are treated in Iran.

Women in Iran and elsewhere in the Islamic world are viewed as the source of all evil. Their every move is brutally monitored and curtailed. The smallest infraction – a wanton wisp of hair escaping a headscarf – merits maximum punishment: Flogging in public, or worse. This is happening in Iran even as we speak. In 2005, a hospital in Tehran was accused of refusing entry to women who did not wear head-to-toe covering.

According to the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, two out of every three Iranian women have experienced serious domestic violence. Eighty one per cent of married women have experienced domestic violence in their first year of marriage.

1990, Iranian journalist, Freidoune Sahebjam, published a haunting and carefully rendered account of how, on August 15, 1986, a 35-year-old woman was stoned to death in Kupayeh, Iran. It is titled: The Stoning of Soraya M. Soraya, (peace be upon her), was lynched by the villagers with whom she had lived all her life. Her own father, her two sons, and her lying, greedy, heartless, criminal-husband, Ghorban-Ali, all threw the first stones.


PENN STATE WOMEN: THIS IS WHAT THE MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION DOESN’T WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF.

Attention, Gays and Lesbians of Penn State. This is what the Muslim Student Association doesn’t want Islamofascism Awareness Week to make you “aware” of:

The Yale Herald (November 2004) reports,

“The Palestinian Authority subsequently arrested Adam three times for his sexual orientation, torturing and humiliating him. It is illegal to be gay in the Palestinian Authority, Eli said, and the police actually employ special undercover agents that seek out gay men, whom the police then torture, kill, or force to work as prostitutes. It is not surprising, Eli said, that he and Adam decided to flee to Israel, the only place where they would not be persecuted for their sexuality.”

“Gay Palestinians Suffer under Arafat” says in part,

“It is not widely known that, along with its war against Israel, the Palestinian Authority is conducting a vicious campaign against its own homosexual population. The New Republic, in its Aug. 19 issue, exposed hideous human rights violations by the Palestinian Authority, which employs special police squads to capture men who have sex with each other. The lucky ones are forced to stand in sewage water up to their necks or lie in dark cells infested with insects; others are simply starved to death.”

Gay Man Criticizes Palestinian Society (Alex Tehranian, Special to The Hoya Friday, October 22, 2004; Page A1):

“A Palestinian man described the challenges of living as a homosexual in what he deemed an oppressive society last Tuesday in New South. …He said he was unwilling to reveal his last name or hometown for fear of being discovered by the Palestinian Authority.”


Palestinian Gays Seek Safety in Israel
:

“For these gay men, life in the seedy parts of central Israel is far better than the virtual death sentences they fled in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.” “Torture by Palestinian Authority security services or vigilante attacks by relatives is a fate suffered by countless gays in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where sodomy carries a jail term of three to 10 years.” “Islam prescribes capital punishment for homosexual activity.”

“Islam prescribes capital punishment for homosexual activity.” This is what the Muslim Student Association seems to be defending, along with “honor killings” of women, and persecution of Christians, Jews, and even the wrong “kinds” of Muslims as infidels and kafirs. If the Muslim Student Association was not sympathetic to violence against gay people, misogyny, femicide, and religious oppression, it would be foremost among the promoters of Islamofascism Awareness Week in condemning the use of Islam as an excuse to perpetrate these atrocities. Since it is doing exactly the opposite, it is pretty obvious where it stands: on the side of a hateful ideology that has no place at Penn State, or indeed in any civilized nation on earth.


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