University of California at Irvine and the Muslim Student Union

On February 8th. Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, was invited to speak on the campus of UCI. His speech was disrupted by eight UCI students and three students from the University of California at Riverside. All of the students were removed by the police and no charges have been filed.

Over many years the administration of UCI has failed in its duty to assure that the campus of UCI did not become one of America's institutions of higher learning where anti-Semitic expression is commonplace. The Muslim Student Union is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood who are the comrades-in-arms of Hamas, a brutal terrorist organization. The MSU has a long history of disruptive behavior, anti-Semitic hate-speech, student intimidation, and fund raising for Hamas. There is a studied nastiness born of a consuming hatred that stains and infects everything they do. By failing to speak out against the MSU and exercise their right of "free speech" the UCI administration has given implicit support to organizations that are dedicated to war and whose undiminished goal is our eventual ruin. All of the MSU's efforts are part of a coordinated global jihad that uses double standards to demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel while infiltrating academia and government institutions in the West counting on subversion to accomplish what overt Islamic radicalism may not. Ideals of "academic freedom" and the right of "freedom of speech" should not be perverted by UCI to enhance these goals which are inimical to the national interest and are not the purpose of an American university. Chancellor Drake and his administration have become what the Soviets used to call "useful idiots". It is time for urgent action to put an end to their manipulation by the most radical and destructive elements of a retrograde religion dedicated to the baleful domination of a global caliphate supervised by the stern application of the intolerant, vengeful and odious apparatus of Sharia Law. My e-mail to Chancellor Drake follows:


Dear Chancellor Drake,

The orchestrated abuse aimed at Israel's Ambassador Oren and the planned disruption of his speech at UCI last Monday evening by members of the Muslim Student Union was the culmination of UCI's pathetic lack of resolve to discipline the MSU for their constant, and often ugly, violations of UCI policies, rules, and standards. This poltroonery has led the MSU to the confident assumption that they can act with impunity even to the extent of breaking the laws of the United States as they did last May when George Galloway, M.P. held a fundraising event for Hamas sponsored by the MSU on the campus of UCI. Now, in the words of that exemplar of sedition, Jeremiah Wright, "the chickens have come home to roost" but considering the MSU's long list of prior serious infractions, which have gone unpunished, why would we expect anything else?

After many years of bully-boy and thuggish tactics by the MSU, that would have been heartily admired and even envied by Hitler's brown-shirts, your administration's response can only be characterized by paraphrasing Winston Churchill when he turned on the Treasury Bench in 1936 and damned it for going on in strange paradox decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Constant heckling restricts free speech and abuse is not an argument. It is clear, even to the most impartial observer, that the MSU is all for free speech just so long as they are the ones doing the talking. When obvious and egregious violations have occurred, justifying inaction against a group of hate-mongers by taking refuge in the protection of "free speech" and "academic freedom" gives the solid impression that you have joined forces with the irreconcilable wing of Islam that seeks to give us all a one-way ticket back to the 7th. century. Many of us believe that on that journey we would be treated to all the cruelty, all the brutality, and all the barbarism contained in Islam's title deed namely the Koran itself. Nothing in the recent disgusting behavior of the MSU alters that view.

The mind is our most precious possession and it is not well trained or well served by assuming that which it must prove. The massive, well oiled, and efficient contraption of distortion, The Palestinian Myth Machine, selling all of its fantastic absurdities and fictitious claims on behalf of a fake cause and a fake people, has had an undue influence on members of the MSU who have become lazy intellectual guttersnipes by allowing it to fashion their opinions instead of taking the trouble to do their own academic due diligence. Thus they are reduced to bumper-sticker slogans and sound-bite protests whose arguments hang by the rotten thread of prejudice masquerading as opinion.

You and your administration now have an opportunity to redeem yourselves by immediately suspending the MSU as well as the eight UCI students who were removed for disrupting the proceedings. The kind of rabble rousing Jew-hate fests organized by the MSU that take place every year with the likes of Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali and Mohammed al-Asi spouting their diatribes, obvious lies, and incoherent reasoning should now be prohibited. They are directly linked to their political masters, the Muslim Brotherhood and their agents of terror, Hamas. To expect us to believe that the MSU stands alone is to suggest that we are possessed of an imbecile credulity that would make an African witch-doctor positively green with envy. These hate-mongering extravaganzas of anti-Semitic propaganda are devoid of educational content and never lead to anything that could be remotely described as reliable or informative intellectual discourse. Any attempt to bestow some sort of academic relevance upon them is entirely bogus. Why you continue to tolerate the intolerant, as well as the intolerable, and why fat ladies wear Bermuda shorts remains, for me, two of life's more enduring mysteries.

Something that is not an enduring mystery, however, is the Hamas Charter. It ranks as one of the most unambiguous declarations of hate ever produced. Read it. There you will find Hamas' boast that their destruction of Israel will be their proud contribution to the eventual establishment of a global caliphate. So much for the "religion of peace" and please do not accuse me of suffering from Islamophobia. If anything, I am suffering from Islamonausea which sickens as it surfeits.

Thus far, your cold reluctance to take strong and effective action against the MSU for persistent violations not only of UCI policy but also of common decency has strengthened their conviction to keep their minds hermetically sealed against truth and reason. Better to remain ignorant than to suffer the indignity of being proved wrong by Jews and infidels.

Furthermore, by not countering the false accusations as well as the obvious and vicious lies regularly disseminated by the MSU about Israel and Jewish people you co-operate with evil and in a real way become evil yourself. This is one of the most pernicious effects of political correctness since you lose any sense of probity and your standing to resist anything is thus eroded and destroyed. There was a good reason why in his "INFERNO" Dante saved the most scorching parts of Hell for those who, faced with a moral dilemma, tried to remain impartial. It is a pity the "INFERNO" is just fiction otherwise it would be comforting to know that when you and many members of your administration finally die the rest of us would be in no doubt as to your exact whereabouts.

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