I translated Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s “Al-Usul al-Thalatha”, does that make me a terrorist too? Horowitz is a fucktard… to put it moderately.

As a Jew, I was pretty shocked by this, so I searched for the quote in the report. But THERE IS NOT A SINGLE LINE in the report about the USC chapter of the MSA in the report!. So first of all, the ad is misrepresenting what it claims to report.

But where does this accusation come from? it turns out that the University of Southern California, in association with the local Muslim Student Association, operates a search engine called “USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts”. If you search for the word “Jews” within muslim hadeeths (oral traditions attributed to the prophet Mohammed) on this link
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html
you will find 231 references to jews, and one of them includes the antisemitic reference quoted in the ad. This is the sum total of the MSA’s “brazen call to attack jews”! no wonder they didn’t dare to claim this in the actual report.

If, for example, a local Hillel had put up a comprehensive search engine about Jewish texts, they would inevitably have to include various anti-gentile passages that do sometimes appear in traditional sources. And if a Christian group did the same, they would find plenty of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim texts. Does this mean we can summarize the attitude of each religion towards other groups over the last few thousand years with a single quote? That would obviously be pretty ignorant. But Jewish history is full of such incidents, where a quotation or two from some religious source was enough to incite violent anti-Semitic persecution.

Shame on the promoters of such hatred.

Why don’t you or a student (if you’re not one) contact the editor & submit a column attacking Horowitz & the ad. I wouldn’t focus too strongly on the issue of whether they should’ve run the ad or not. I’d focus on tearing the contents of the ad to bits & then at the end of what you write saying that the editors did the newspaper & its readership by publishing something so hateful & fraudulent.

1. “MSA-UCB’s interests extend well beyond issues
related to education and personal growth. Its constitution
explicitly states that one of its chief objectives is to “develop
activism of Muslims on campus and in the community.” Yes indeed, they are EXPLICITLY calling for more activism in the community! watch out!

2. “in 1980, MSA UCB published a translation of writings by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the 18th century founder of Wahhabism, which went on to
become the dominant state sect in Saudi Arabia”. So they may really have published a book by an eighteenth-century Islamic scholar almost thirty years ago!!!

3. When Daniel Pipes came to campus they went to his talk and tried to “silence him by interrupting his speech and
repeatedly calling him a “racist”.

4. They organized a “week of events titled “Peace Not Prejudice Week” that opened with a screening and discussion of the film Ghosts of Abu
Ghraib, which depicted [...] America’s egregious disregard for human rights”.

5. “One of the featured speakers at Islamo Fascism
Awareness Week was Nonie Darwish [...] MSA-USB members
repeatedly interrupted her speech, calling her a “racist”. So, three examples of shocking “stealth jihad” for you right there. It starts from booing Nonie Darwish and will obviously end up in establishing a sharia state between Sproul Plaza and the Campanlie.

6. Their website refers students to two Islamic scholars on campus, one of which is Prof. Hatem Bazian (who is about as much of Jihadist as I am…). They also mention someone called Hamid Algar, who they claim is a supporter of Khomeini.

7. The only semi-plausible accusation is that in 2004 they hosted a conference which featured one speaker who made antisemitic remarks. If this is indeed what happened, it should obviously be denounced, but to smear the entire membership of the current MSA because of what one speaker said four years ago is shameful.

8. And while we’re playing guilt by association, half of this report deals with events that occured during Islamo-Fascism Awareness week, organized on this campus by the Berkeley College Republicans. The same organization invited Dinesh D’Souza to speak on campus a couple of weeks ago, and they advertised his talk with the following quote from his book “The End of Racism”: “The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well”.

Yep, I kid you not, I have it right in front of me. So the local representatives of David Horowitz and co. are openly justifying slavery, but I guess that’s not a form of “stealth jihad” so it must be ok.