A recent letter criticizing David Horowitz for linking the Muslim Students Association to radical jihadists mischaracterized the Islamo-Fascism campaign and Horowitz's efforts to raise awareness about the threat of radical Islam ("Horowitz misinforms students about Islam," Nov. 12).
The Muslim Students Association portrays itself as a religious and cultural organization, representing all Muslims. As a result, MSAs receive generous funding from student activities boards - often more than most other student groups. For example, the University of Pennsylvania's Muslim Students Association receives $20,000 from student government while college Republicans and Democrats receive nothing.
A May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum named the MSA as one of the Brotherhood's like-minded "organizations of our friends" who share the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These "friends" were described by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands... so that... God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."
The national MSA has sponsored hate speakers such as Sheik Khalid Yasin who has called for the execution of gays and accuses Jews of orchestrating the 9/11 terror attacks. Last spring, the MSA brought Sheik Yasin to Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota State, the University of Minnesota, St. Cloud College and Sinclair Community College. The MSA has named its student scholarship fund after a member of the Muslim Brotherhood network and has sponsored "Nakba" celebrations to coincide with Israel's birth date whose agenda is the destruction of the Jewish state.
The Islamo-Fascism Awareness campaign defends Muslims, particularly Muslim gays and women, from their oppression under the rule of Islamo-fascists. By exposing the links between the MSA and radical jihadists, Horowitz provides students with perspectives on radical Islam that they would be unlikely to hear elsewhere.
-REUT COHEN Senior Associate, The Terrorism Awareness Project, The David Horowitz Freedom Center
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