The Muslim Student Association (MSA) is the largest Muslim organization in North America. Today, over 150 MSA chapters exist on American college campuses, including BYU. What exactly is this organization's business? Read how patriotic some of our Muslim students are acting. At a meeting in Queensborough Community College in March 2003, a guest speaker named Faheed declared, "We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don't lobby Congress or protest because we don't recognize Congress. The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it … Eventually there will be a Muslim in the White House dictating the laws of shariah." During an October 2000 anti-Israeli protest, former MSA president Ahmed Shama at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) stood before the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, shouting "Victory to Islam! Death to the Jews!" MSA West president Sohail Shakr declared at the same rally, "the biggest impediment to peace [in the Middle East] has been the existence of the Zionist entity in the middle of the Muslim world." Prior to September 11, 2001, the MSA formally assisted three Islamic charities in fundraising: the Holy Land Foundation, Global Relief, and Benevolence Foundation. Afterwards, all three were accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of having serious links to terrorism and were ordered closed. The MSA chapter of the University of Southern California, says on its website that the duty of Muslims is to: "Defend the rights of Muslims abroad, and to see to it that Islam can spread freely in non-Muslim lands (including the use of force). Organize jihad against any non-Muslim government which prevents Muslim da'wah from entering its land." The MSA's presence serves as a feather in a University's cap of diversity, and no formal inquiry into its motives or political agenda is acceptable. They are immune to criticism and given the benefit of the doubt. Here are some more eye-opening remarks:
Zaid Shakir, former Muslim chaplain at Yale said:
Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the secular system in the United States, for it "is against the orders and ordainments of Allah . . . the orientation of the Qur'an pushes us in the exact opposite direction as the forces that are at work in the American political spectrum.
Fawaz Damra, a convicted Imam from Ohio said:
The first principle is that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation...If what they mean by jihad is terrorism, then we are terrorists.
Sami Al Arian, South Florida professor who receives praise and support from academia's most prominent scholars, said:
Let us continue the protests. Let us damn America. Let us damn Israel. Let us damn their allies until death. Mohammad is leader. The Qu’ran is our constitution. Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution! Revolution! Until Victory! Rolling, rolling to Jerusalem.
Ibrahim Hooper of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said:
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.
Omar Ahmad of CAIR said:
Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran…should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.
Siraj Wahhaj is a convert to Islam, the recipient of some of the Muslim community's highest honors, and called "one the most respected Muslim leaders in America." He said:
I have a vision in America, Muslims owning property all over, Muslim businesses, factories, halal meat, supermarkets, all these buildings owned by Muslims. Can you see the vision, can you see the Newark International Airport and a John Kennedy Airport and LaGuardia having Muslim fleets of planes, Muslim pilots. Can you see our trucks rolling down the highways, Muslim names.
The first Islamic missionaries from abroad arrived in the 1920s and unblushingly declared: "Our plan is, we are going to conquer America."( Andrew T Hoffert, "The Moslem Movement in America," The Moslem World, 20 (1930), p. 309.)
Ihsan Bagby Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Kentucky, (PhD from University of Michigan) said:
Ultimately we can never be full citizens of this country, because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.
Imam Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America, said: "We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands."
And of course, this is peanuts when compared to the statements from Muslim authorities abroad. If you're a natural multicultural relativist (MR), I know what you're thinking. Something along the lines of, "Well all religions in America can produce examples of extremists who wish to conquer America and change its laws." That they can is beyond question. That they in fact do, is something that needs to be demonstrated before the MR doctrine is taken for granted. MRs don't want to interact much with the reality that undermines their assumptions. I would like to propose a challenge for anyone who can demonstrate examples of just one or maybe two Mormons, or Baptists, or Catholics, or Jews who believe the constitution should be overthrown by their religion. Since Mormons in America number about the same as Muslims, and the latter three outnumber them, assuming all things are equal, surely this should be an easy task. Further, it isn't just some looney Muslims who make these comments. This is the doctrine that is spewed at Islamic rallies on our own University campuses. My point here is simple. If we cannot fall back on the prominent Muslim organizations to be "moderate" in their voices, where else can we turn?
"When an Arab torches a school, it’s rebellion. When a white guy does it, it’s fascism." - Alain Finkielkraut