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"nan" |
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24 Oct 2004 10:23:24 AM |
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Threat of Terrorist Support on American Campuses |
The Threat of Militant Islam On American Campuses
by David Horowitz (2003 FrontPageMag.com archive)
April 8, 2003
When I was a college radical and anti-war activist forty years ago, I
was quite the intellectual and (in my estimation) cautious and sober.
Though I became an editor and then co-editor of the leading radical
magazine of the Sixties, Ramparts, I never threw a rock during the
entire era. I never joined a radical sect and never went to Communist
Cuba or North Vietnam, which were then the meccas of the radical
faith. Although I was a founder of an organization called the "Vietnam
Solidarity Campaign," I never fooled myself that the Communist state
that would result from an American defeat would be a "rice roots
democracy," the way Tom Hayden [John Kerry's comrade & Fonda's ex) and
other leaders of the "New Left" movement proclaimed.
Nonetheless, before the era was over, I was lured by my desire to do
humanitarian good and to further the cause of social justice into
working with the Black Panthers, a group of radical gangsters who in
1974 murdered a friend of mine (the mother of three children) and a
dozen other individualss besides. The project I had become involved
in with the Panthers was building an elementary school.
From the vantage of the political and cultural left, my activities
with the Black Panthers were neither marginal or extreme. At the time,
the Panthers were icons of the progressive intellectuals, symbolizing
strong black leaders who were standing up for their "oppressed"
community. The entire liberal culture supported them. Leading cultural
figures like Garry Wills and Murray Kempton were writing praises of
the Panthers in the New York Times Sunday magazine Kempton even
compared their leader Huey Newton to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
in the Times' august pages. To this day The New York Times, The
Washington Post and other pillars of the American political culture,
celebrate the Panthers – the murderers of my friend and a dozen others
– as icons of the "social struggle."
Fortunately, the Panthers disintegrated in the early Seventies,
dragged down by their criminal activities, internecine battles and the
sordid brutality of their leaders, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver.
Before he died, Cleaver told a Sixty Minutes audience, "If people had
listened to Huey Newton and me in the Sixties, there would have been a
holocaust in this country." Many radicals, among them Cleaver's most
prominent promoter – Los Angles Times columnist Robert Scheer --
looked forward to that holocaust and actively encouraged it. The
Panthers were the "noble savages" of liberal compassion, symbols of
the injustice that America was said to be inflicting on American
blacks.
What would have happened if the Panthers had remained intact to the
present? What if they had been the arm of an international terror
network whose goal was the destruction of the United States? There are
such groups in America today. They are radical groups who identify
with the violent jihad of Islamacist terror organizations like
al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas. And they have the
support of a radical culture that regards America as the Great Satan,
and Muslims and Arabs as the people whom America oppresses.
On campuses across this country, embedded in the leadership of every
radical "anti-war" protest group, are organizations that promote the
culture of Islamic terrorism and its anti-Western, anti-Israeli and
anti-American agendas. One that will serve as an example for the
others is the radical Muslim Student Association (MSA). The Muslim
Student Association is an organization financed by the Saudis and also
by student funds at every university where it operates. The ideas and
enthusiasms that it promotes among impressionable college students
should give every American cause for concern.
On October 22, 2000, Ahmed Shama, president of the UCLA Muslim
Students Association led a crowd of demonstrators at the Israeli
consulate in chants of "Death to Israel!" and "Death to the Jews!"
Shama declared that Ehud Barak, Yassir Arafat and Bill Clinton were
all "racist zionists." "When we see that a peace process is being
negotiated between Zionists, mediated by Zionists, controlled by
Zionists, and being portrayed in the media by Zionists, we come and we
condemn all of you," Shama said.
One of the invited speakers at the event was Hamid Ayloush, a member
of the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was also an event
sponsor. In his speech, Ayloush solicited contributions for the Holy
Land Foundation, an organization that the Justice Department has shut
down as funder of al-Qaeda.
On May 26, 2001 the UCLA Muslim Student Association held a conference
of Islamic radicals on the UCLA campus. The conference featured
speakers from CAIR whose founder is a supporter of the terrorist
organization Hamas, and the Muslim Public Affairs council, a radical
group whose executive director has justified the terrorist killing of
243 U.S. marines in Lebanon in 1983 by Hizbollah suicide bombers:
"This attack, for all the pain it caused, was not in a strict sense, a
terrorist operation. It was a military operation, producing no
civilian casualties -- exactly the kind of attack that Americans might
have lauded had it been directed against Washington's enemies."
The UCLA Muslim Student Association has routinely invited
pro-terrorist speakers to the UCLA campus and paid for them with
student funds. At a January 21, 2001 event, nine months before 9/11, a
speaker called Imam Musa, an African-American Muslim who is a staple
of the anti-war rallies staged in Washington DC declared: "If you
were to say that the Soviet Union was wiped off the face of the earth
.. . . people would have thought you were crazy, right? The people of
Afghanistan didn't have the intellect or historical knowledge to know
that they wasn't supposed to wipe out the Soviet Union, is that right?
.. . . We saw the fall of one so-called superpower, Old Sam is next."
Prior to 9/11, the UCLA magazine Al-Talib featured a cover story on
Osama Bin Laden titled, "The Spirit of Jihad." The editorial declares:
"When we hear someone refer to the great mujahideen Osama Bin-Ladin
as a ‘terrorist' we should defend our brother and refer to him as a
freedom fighter; someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in
Allah's cause and speak out against oppressors. We take these stances
only to please Allah."
Two days before 9/11, Al Talib co-sponsored a dinner at UC Irvine to
honor then accused (and subsequently convicted) cop-killer (and Imam)
Jamil Al-Amin -- aka H. Rap Brown. Another cop-killer favored by
Muslim student groups and by the antiwar movement generally is Mumia
Abu Jamal. Imam Musa spoke here as well:
" You think Zionism and Palestine is the only dictatorial power in the
world. We're telling you about apartheid right here in America.… When
you fight Old Sam, you are fighting someone that is superior in
criminality and Nazism. The American criminalizer is the most skillful
oppressor that the world has ever known."
The Palestinian terrorists have become the Black Panthers of the
contemporary anti-war movement. The leftwing culture celebrates the
suicide bombers of women and children as desperate victims of Jewish
oppression. Attackers and destroyers of the Oslo peace process are
proclaimed as heroes. Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are
lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Americans are
condemned as Nazis.
How many American college students and antiwar activists have been
seduced by these poisonous elements at work in our society? It is
difficult to know. But one who has already paid for it with her life
is Rachel Corrie, a 24 year old undergraduate at Evergreen College in
Olympia Washington, who has become known as the "Saint of Rafiah," the
name of the West Bank town where she died. Evergreen is one of the
many leftwing campuses in America, whose values have been turned so
upside down by tenured leftists that it recently featured convicted
murderer Mumia Abu Jamal as its commencement speaker. (He spoke via
tape).
Rachel Corrie began her activist career as a member of the Olympia
Movement for Justice and Peace, an organization formed directly after
the 9/11 attack on America to oppose an American military response.
Its members feared that, "America would retaliate by bombing some of
the poorest and most oppressed on earth, the Afghan people." Their
Marxist view of the world is captured in one of the Movement's favored
slogans: "Corporate Globalization Equals Imperialist Domination."
It was not long after she joined the Olympia Movement that Rachel
Corrie was burning an American flag in the name of social justice. It
was logical step for her to gravitate to an organization that would
demonstrate her commitment to the cause. Through her contacts in the
antiwar movement she joined the International Solidarity Campaign,
whose purpose is to recruit young Americans to become human shields
for Palestinian terrorists. The Solidarity Campaign's ties to
terrorism became inescapable eleven days after Rachel Corrie's death
when an elite anti-terror unit of the Israel Defense Forces captured a
senior Islamic Jihad terrorist, Shadi Sukiya hiding in its offices in
Jenin.
Rachel Corrie was sent by International Solidarity to a town called
Rafia in the Gaza Strip to obstruct Israeli Defense Forces conducting
anti-terror operations. She sat down in front of an Israeli military
bulldozer, and – according to an American eyewitness -- was
inadvertently killed when the machine whose driver could not see her,
ran over her. This Sunday, the New York Times Magazine – the same
magazine that once celebrated the murderer of my friend by the Black
Panthers– had a tribute to Rachel Corrie, to her humanitarian
goodwill. The article was called "One Last Sit-In," to wrap the halo
of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement around her
pro-terrorist activities. The Times article summarized the news
reports of Corrie's death in these words: "23-year-old peace activist
from Olympia, Wash., crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer as
she tried to block the demolition of a physician's home in Gaza."
Author David Horowitz:
The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future
Horowitz reveals how the American political Left is quietly but
relentlessly waging a new "cold war" against America, undermining our
founding principles and ideals in the guise of "social justice.".
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