The MSA has “cultivated a vast network of likeminded organizations and people to accommodate its radical ideology through stealth jihad.
by Mark Tapson
The report begins by noting that the Muslim Students Association (MSA) of the United States and Canada was established in 1963 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood at the University of Illinois:
Its creation was the result of Saudi Arabia-backed efforts to create a network of international Islamic organizations in order to spread its Wahhabist ideology. It was essentially “an arm of the Saudi-funded, Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Muslim World League. Since its inception, the MSA has emerged as the leading and most influential Islamic student organization in North America. Today, there are nearly six hundred MSA chapters in the United States and Canada.
The report goes on to investigate the key principles of the MSA and to establish “its clear nexus to the MB and its adherent organizations.” It proceeds to examine the MSA’s “rampant anti-US, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric both on and off campus” and to “analyze the manner in which the MSA provides material support to terrorism travel.” It demonstrates conclusively that “current and former members of the MSA account for a significant share of individuals who have left home to join in terror related activities abroad.”
The impressively detailed, thorough report concludes that “[t]he MSA has developed and refined an effective method of identifying and recruiting the type of individuals susceptible to radicalization, and it is operating almost unimpeded”:
The MSA has had over fifty years to expand across campuses in North America, and in that time they have solidified their role in influencing both academic and political circles. They have remained true to their original purpose as an arm of the global Muslim Brotherhood Movement, and have been successful in implementing its policies and agendas. The MSA cultivates individuals, some who go on to hold important positions in mainstream society, to carry the radical ideology espoused by the organization with them, beyond the campus. This has created the situation we are confronted with today. The rate of extremist rhetoric from university MSA’s is increasing, namely with the IAW and BDS movements gaining global momentum, while it has equally cultivated a vast network of likeminded organizations and people to accommodate its radical ideology through a stealth jihad.
If you want to educate yourself or others on this vastly influential and subversive arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, this TSEC report is an authoritative, comprehensive place to go.