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| UC-Irvine recommends one-year suspension of Muslim Student Union ACT! for America members deluged UC-Irvine with phone calls, emails Dear Harold, In February, the University of California at Irvine (UC-Irvine) sponsored an event featuring Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. Nearly a dozen attendees, one after the other, stood up and disrupted his remarks, in spite of repeated warnings by event hosts. ACT! for America chapter leaders and members deluged UC-Irvine with calls, complaining about this despicable assault on our cherished rights of free speech. In a pleasant surprise, UC-Irvine has recommended a one-year suspension of the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a militant Islamic campus group that coordinated the disruptive activities. We say it’s surprising, because the dominance of political correctness on so many college campuses usually precludes such administrative action like this. Not surprisingly, as noted in the article below (highlights added), the national Muslim Student Association, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated organization, has “condemned” the recommended suspension. Note how they complain that a suspension will violate the “free speech” rights of Muslims!
June 18, 2010 MSA National Condemns Suspension of Muslim Student Union The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report The national headquarters of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) has condemned the recommendation by a University of California official that the it Irvine Chapter be suspended for one year as a result of its members having disrupted a speech by the Israeli Ambassador in February. According to the MSA announcement:
The LA Times, however, reported the following findings of the UC Irvine Student Housing Director: In making the suspension recommendation, Lisa Cornish, UC Irvine’s director of student housing, found that the Muslim Student Union had “planned, orchestrated and coordinated in advance” an effort to disrupt a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on Feb. 8 about U.S.-Israeli relations. The recommendation was made in late May but not made public at that time... ...According to the report, the group’s goal was to “send the speaker a message” and to develop a “game plan” to disrupt Oren’s speech… ...The plan included identifying students willing to participate, drafting scripted statements and urging supporters to attend and cheer each disruption. The plan also instructed students to deny that the Muslim Student Union organized the protest, according to the report. The group violated university policies prohibiting “fabricating information (or) furnishing false information,” “obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration … or other University activities,” “disorderly or lewd conduct” and “participation in a disturbance of the peace or unlawful assembly,” according to the report. Oren was shouted down repeatedly by Muslim students who stood up and delivered statements such as “Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech.” Supporters cheered as the students were escorted away by police, and each time Oren attempted to resume his speech, another student jumped up with another outburst. The Times report also cited the following complaints by Jewish groups on campus: Jewish groups cite several incidents of perceived anti-Semitism on campus, including the defacing of an Israeli flag in a dorm room, the display of a poster equating the Star of David with a swastika, the vandalizing of a Holocaust memorial, and a 2006 program sponsored by the Muslim Student Union titled “Holocaust in the Holy Land” and “Israel: The Fourth Reich.” According to a Hudson Institute report, the Muslim Student Association was the earliest known public front organization of what would later become the US Muslim Brotherhood and many USMB leaders were active in the early days of MSA. The MSA is now a “constituent organization” of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), itself a major part of the USMB. Previous posts have discussed important individuals close to the USMB who have emerged from an MSA background such as Mazen Asbahi who then candidate Obama appointed as his campaign Muslim outreach advisor. Asbahi was a former MSA leader who resigned his position after less than two weeks on the job when the GMBDR detailed his ties to the USMB. The Investigative Project has compiled a report on the history and extremism of the MSA. To read the decision letter, go here. For video of the incident, go here. Reprinted with permission by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report.
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