Hat tip to Campus Watch and Frontpage Magazine
It seems the West Coast is not the only area where university-based Muslim Student Associations have come under law enforcement scrutiny. Ryan Mauro has written a report which appears in Frontpage Magazine and Campus Watch. It concerns the controversy over the NYPD's investigations into MSA chapters on several university campuses in the city.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11825
Not surprisingly, Islamic organizations are trying to iintimidate the NYPD into ceasing their investigations notwithstanding the list of examples of MSA alumni who have gone into the jihad against this country. This also ties into that 1960s thinking that university campuses are some sort of sanctuaries from law enforcement, which they clearly are not.
The point is not that every member of a Muslim Student Association chapter on any university campus is a jihadist. I don't believe that for a minute. Many join simply because they see it as a social support group when they begin their university careers. Yet, the list of radical speakers that regularly appear at MSA-sponsored events is a matter for concern and signals a radical bent among the leadership that is worthy of scrutiny.
Having suffered two major terror attacks and a couple of other thwarted attempts, New York has the right and the responsibility to take necessary measures to prevent another. I fail to note any unjustified arrests of innocent people being carried out here. Hopefully, the city will stick by its police.
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What you left out is what, exactly, the NYPD is investigating. To investigate an organization, as such, is generally an abuse, unless the very purpose of the organization IS the commission of felonies (Cosa Nostra for example).
Are the police investigating MSA, or are they investigating individuals who belong to MSA, because there is probably cause to believe that these individuals are committing criminal acts? Or, do they have evidence that MSA is in fact an organization formed for criminal purpose? (Gary Fouse says no, you are clear about that).
The question remains then, what IS the NYPD investigating, and WHO are they investigating? No general reflect to either "support your police" or "defend civil liberties from the barbarians in the police department" is in order.
The article gives an extensive list of terrorists that have come from MSA organizations... "There's an extensive list of MSA leaders engaging in terrorism and chapters promoting extremism" The police would negilgent if they were NOT trying to infiltrate the organization to find out what else is planned. That is just good police work. Very few terrorists come out of the Chess Club on campus.
The UCI MSU emails show a willingness to go into a hostile environment, risk their college education, and imprisonment solely to disrupt a speaker on campus who would dare to defend Israel. These 11 have shown that they have what it takes to risk all for the cause. No doubt we will see some of their names sometime in the future when they get a bigger, more important, assignment from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Of course the police have to know everything they can about them and their support networks. If the authorities were truly vigilent, those 11 names would already be on the "No Fly" list.
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Good police work is to follow INDIVIDUALS who are known are suspected, by evidence amounting to probably cause, to be engaged in criminal activity. If that leads into MSA, because those individuals are active in MSA, then so be it. But if those individuals were all rounded up, and there were no evidence any remaining MSA members were similarly engaged in crime, the name "Muslim Student Association" would NOT be grounds for infiltration.
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