USC Cracks Down on Muslim Student Association “Haditha of Hate”
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him….”
The so-called Haditha (sacred teaching) of Hate is one of the most notorious writings in Islam. It instructs Muslims to kill Jews. One would think that Muslims would try to keep this phrase secret from the rest of the world.
Not so the Muslim Student Association at the University of Southern California, which has even put the haditha up on its campus website. Now, as a result of protests lodged by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the university’s Provost, Chrysostomos L. Max Nikias, has ordered the MSA to remove the haditha from its website.
I applaud the action by USC. Finally, one university (hardly a conservative bastion) has summoned up the courage to put the MSA in its place, albeit belatedly. This haditha should have been struck down as soon as it appeared. This cannot be considered free speech. It is a call to murder, plain and simple. If this is what USC’s MSA subscribes to, it reveals them to be nothing more than radicals and vicious bigots. This kind of language has no place in American society. Similarly, those Muslims who subscribe to this “teaching” have no place in our society. Decent Muslims who want to gain a place in our society must turn away from this kind of language.
It would be nice to see my own university, (UC-Irvine)take similar measures against the MSU (Muslim Student Union). It would be refreshing to hear UCI’s leaders tell the MSU that speakers who come to our campus and call Jews “low-life ghetto dwellers” (Imam Mohammed Al-Asi), glorify acts of mass murder by suicide bombers in Israel (Amir Abdel Malik Ali) and displays that depict Jews with hooked noses, thick lips and leering gazes are not going to be tolerated any longer at UCI. Don’t hold your breath. The cowards who run UCI have, up until now, not summoned up the courage to confront the MSU and their vicious speakers. In fact, the MSU receives funding from UCI in the form of money taken from student tuition fees. The May 2008″Palestine Awareness Week” was funded by UCI to the tune of $6,500, according to Frontpage Magazine. Thus, UCI supplies funding to MSU to bring in hate mongering speakers and erect racist, anti-Semitic displays that denigrate Jews.
So it will be up to the rest of us to bring the public’s attention to what is going on in academia. David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, for one, will be putting on a “Stop the Jihad on Campus Week”, which will occur during the week of October 13-17, 2008. Public attention must be brought to the actions and words of these various MSA’s across the nation. Hopefully, the public can demand that universities crack down on hate speech on their campuses.
gary fouse
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