[Editor's note: Don't miss Eric Bell on Frontpage's television program, The Glazov Gang, which we will air in our Monday, Feb. 13 edition.]

Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests were:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery).

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/08/the-jamie-glazov-show

See you next Tuesday night!

In this edition of The Glazov Gang, three distinguished guests shed light on the real meaning of Mitt leading the GOP presidential context. Our guests are: Sonja Schmidt, a conservative political analyst, Evan Sayet, America’s #1 conservative comedian and Kevin Hand, CEO and President of Hand & Associates. To see Part I of this three part series, which focused on the communist roots of Occupy Wall Street, click here. To see Part II, Jihad Denial, click here. Part III, Romney Rising, is below:

Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests were:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery).

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/08/the-jamie-glazov-show

See you next Tuesday night!

Speaking at an anti-Sharia conference in Nashville, TN, ACT! for America founder Brigitte Gabriel reveals shocking information on the level of Islamic indoctrination in public schools. Even more daunting, Gabriel explains, millions of dollars from Islamic radicals, particularly from oil-rich Saudi Arabia, pour into our universities to further promote the Islamist agenda. See Gabriel’s entire account below.

Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: Click here.

In this edition of The Glazov Gang, three distinguished guests shed light on our culture’s reluctance to name our enemy by its name. Our guests are: Sonja Schmidt, a conservative political analyst, Evan Sayet, America’s #1 conservative comedian and Kevin Hand, CEO and President of Hand & Associates. To see Part I of this three part series, which focused on the communist roots of Occupy Wall Street, click here. Part II is below. Part III, which focuses on Romney Rising, will run in tomorrow’s edition.

Join the Jamie Glazov Show on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests are:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery).

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/08/the-jamie-glazov-show

Phone-in # is (347) 857-1380

See you on Tuesday night!

In this edition of The Glazov Gang, Frontpage’s television program, three distinguished guests shed light on the rebirth of communism on American soil. Our guests are: Sonja Schmidt, a conservative political analyst, Evan Sayet, America’s #1 conservative comedian and Kevin Hand, CEO and President of Hand & Associates. See Part I of this three part series below. We will run Part II, Fired for Islamophobia, in tomorrow’s edition.

[For the whole story behind Occupy Wall Street and how this movement marks a new phase in the rebirth of the communist Left, read the new broadside by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn. This essential pamphlet exposes the roots, leaders and hidden agendas of the radical movement and its war on capitalism and free societies.]

Join the Jamie Glazov Show on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests are:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery).

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/08/the-jamie-glazov-show

Phone-in # is (347) 857-1380

See you on Tuesday night!

Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests were:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Dr. Tim Furnish, an author and Muslim world analyst who holds a PhD in Islamic history from Ohio State and who learned Arabic in the US Army; his areas of expertise are Islamic eschatology, Mahdism, sects and transnational movements. He has lectured at Joint Special Operations University, the Army War College, Ben Gurion University and the annual Mahdism Conference in Iran.

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show

See you next Tuesday night!

On January 21, Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, spoke at an event titled ”The Persecuted Church: Christian Believers in Peril in the Middle East,” hosted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (read this report for more details on the conference).  Raymond’s talk, which provided “context and continuity,” can now be seen on video, which follows:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Editor’s note: Brooke Goldstein is coming to speak at the Philadelphia Chapter of the Freedom Center tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 2. To mark this occasion, Frontpage is rerunning below Jacob Laksin’s interview with Ms. Goldstein that ran in our Jan 26th issue.

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FrontPage Interview’s guest today is Brooke Goldstein, a New York City-based human rights attorney, author and award-winning filmmaker. She serves as director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about and facilitating a response to the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law. Her award-winning documentary film, The Making of a Martyr, uncovers the illegal, state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of Palestinian children for suicide-homicide attacks. To view the trailer, click here. Goldstein is the co-author, with Aaron Eitan Meyer, of the recently published Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide for Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare.

Goldstein will be speaking at the Philadelphia Chapter of the David Horowitz Freedom Center at The Office of Duane Morris, LLP. 30 South 17th Street, 12^th Floor, Philadelphia, PA  19103, on February 2nd from 5:00 to 6:30pm. To register for that event, click here.

FP: You run an organization that focuses on it and you’ve recently written a book about it, but for the benefit of the uninitiated reader, what is “lawfare” and what is it designed to accomplish?

BG: Lawfare is the use of the law as a weapon of war. More specifically, it is the manipulation of international human-rights law, the laws of armed conflict and legal terminology leading to their misapplication. Lawfare has basically three strategic goals. First, to frustrate and hinder the ability of democracies to fight terrorism. Second, to undermine the rights of sovereign nations, including the rights to defend their citizens against imminent threats and exert sovereign control over their territory. And third, to punish and silence free speech about real national-security threats such as militant Islam, Islamist terrorism and terror financing.

FP: How does lawfare help to stifle free speech about the threats we face? And how did you become engaged in this subject?

BG: I’m a Canadian by birth but I moved to this country because I wanted to practice law and have a tremendous respect for the American Constitution.  In the United States people enjoy more rights then ever recognized by a governing authority in the history of civilization. Yet there are many Americans who do not know what their rights are under the First Amendment and who don’t understand the implications of its guarantor of free speech. For instance, I get calls and emails from people who don’t know that blasphemy is not a crime in this country, or that free speech encompasses the right to speak and write truthfully about religion. I’ve gotten into discussions with bloggers who thought that hate speech was a crime in this country, which it’s not. American citizens have a right to speak freely and critically about their government and about religion.  That principle is the cornerstone of liberal democracy and what the founding fathers based the First Amendment on.

You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand these rights and people who did not receive a legal education still want to be active citizens. They want to write a blog or an article about, say, their local Muslim Brotherhood-connected chapter or about the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) or about the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). But they’re afraid  they’re going to be targeted with a lawsuit strategically designed to silence their speech.  And lawsuits, as we know, are expensive.

I co-wrote Lawfare to encourage journalists, bloggers, members of the media and American citizens at large to exercise their rights and speak freely about the most important issues of our time.  The goal of the book is to arm American citizens should they fall victim to such “libel lawfare.”  To counter the “chilling effect” on free speech about militant Islam.  The book serves as a very accessible primer on the First Amendment and as an overview of U.S. libel law versus foreign libel law.  It provides case examples of  the brave men and women who have been targeted with malicious lawsuits for publishing works exposing the financiers of terrorism and even for parodying religion (like the Danish cartoons of Mohammad.) There is no place in a free society for such stifling of public dialogue, especially when the speech is related to national security issues. I was not prepared to stand by while groups like the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC)  lobby the U.N. and the U.S. for the resurgence of blasphemy laws.  I recommend the book to anyone who may be remotely in lawfare’s harms way or who wants to maintain our precious standards of freedom.

FP: Let’s say I am an independent writer who wants to publish something about Islamic radicalism. What I should I do to protect myself from these lawsuits?

BG: Number one, get yourself media liability insurance. Everyone who publishes should have media liability insurance, regardless of the fact that what you may write about is true. The whole point of lawfare is to file a frivolous lawsuit, so that even if you win, in the end you still lose time and money spent defending your rights. Media insurance can cost you  around $1,500 a year, depending on your risk-liability, but it’s super-important and an expense well-spent. Number two, always have a second pair of eyes, preferably an attorney, read over your article with the goal of spotting any potentially libelous statements. And always cache websites. Often people put up information that can be used against them on the web and when they realize that they take it down. If you rely on internet articles you need to cache the articles in case those pages are taken down. If you have any concerns, you should call us at The Lawfare Project. We operate as a non-profit and one of our activities is to hook people up with legal counsel if they need it. We also perform libel review, though we always recommend that people get an attorney to represent them, as we are not a law firm, nor do we take on clients. And finally, you should read our book. It provides really simple examples of people who have been sued in the past, how they won, and what you need to do to protect your rights.

FP: What is the state of free speech in this country as it concerns discussion of Islam and Islamism?

BG: I think this country affords the greatest free speech protections that have ever been afforded in organized civilization. But there have been a couple developments that are very troubling and that point to the stifling of healthy dialogue and debate. The first thing is the chilling effect created by the libel lawfare suits. We have witnessed situations where Yale University Press publishes a book called Cartoons That Shook the World about the Mohammed cartoons, and yet doesn’t publish the cartoons at issue. I think it’s a problem when Comedy Central allows the creators of South Park to defame every religion except for Islam. It’s a problem when you have Random House refusing to publish a fiction novel – The Jewell of Medina by author Sherry Jones – because it is afraid that publishing any fiction about Mohammed’s child bride Aisha will be denounced as “Islamophobic.”

The other major challenge to free speech comes from the Obama administration. The administration has co-sponsored UN Resolution 16/18, which follows a series of resolutions spearheaded by the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, aiming to outlaw the blasphemy of religion in international law. The OIC is 57-member voting block at the UN that has hijacked the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council. That resolution is now being implemented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They are wiping out all references to Islam and Islamic terrorism in counterterrorism training manuals. They’ve created a blacklist of seasoned FBI officials, some of whom have been there for over ten years, who are no longer allowed to brief on Islamist terrorism the very men and women tasked with protecting us from Islamist terrorism. The Department of Defense’s report on the Fort Hood shootings omitted the word Islam and made no mention of the killer, Nidal Malik Hasan’s, well documented jihadist sympathies such as his speech on suicide bombing and an essay arguing for the painful punishment and liquidation of non-Muslims.  So now we are not just stifling public debate but  we’re stifling the ability of people in our national security apparatuses to protect us. It’s a serious problem.

That said, I’m much more worried about the status of free speech in Europe and in Canada. In the Netherlands they put Geert Wilders, a democratically elected official, on trial for hate speech against Muslims because he spoke to his constituents about the threat of Islamist terrorism. Just recently, an Austrian citizen, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff,  was  fined for the crime of blasphemy against Islam, in Austria! The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has gone after the author Mark Steyn and the television personality Ezra Levant for writing a book on Muslim demographics and republishing cartoons of Mohammad, respectively. Even though neither of the CHRC’s quasi-legal proceedings have been successful, they send a message that there are legal loopholes that can be taken advantage of by people who don’t want us to talk about Islam. And if we can’t talk about and understand Islamist terrorism, how can we defeat it?

Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests were:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Dr. Tim Furnish, an author and Muslim world analyst who holds a PhD in Islamic history from Ohio State and who learned Arabic in the US Army; his areas of expertise are Islamic eschatology, Mahdism, sects and transnational movements. He has lectured at Joint Special Operations University, the Army War College, Ben Gurion University and the annual Mahdism Conference in Iran.

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show

See you next Tuesday night!

Join the Jamie Glazov Show on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guests are:

Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” — where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America’s Bible Belt.

and

Dr. Tim Furnish, an author and Muslim world analyst who holds a PhD in Islamic history from Ohio State and who learned Arabic in the US Army; his areas of expertise are Islamic eschatology, Mahdism, sects and transnational movements. He has lectured at Joint Special Operations University, the Army War College, Ben Gurion University and the annual Mahdism Conference in Iran.

To read Robert Spencer’s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell’s firing at the Daily Kos, click here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show

Phone in #: (347) 857-1380

See you Tuesday night!

Imagine that the president overnight decreed that women must cover themselves from head to toe lest they be imprisoned. Imagine suddenly a new brigade of morality police appears on the scene to patrol for unacceptable behavior, jailing and beating transgressors on sight. Imagine a new regime of rules that sentenced women defending themselves against rape to death. This is the world that Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a Canadian-Iranian human rights activist, and her family left following the Islamic revolution in Iran. Below, Afshin-Jam recounts her amazing story and successful campaigns to save lives in the Islamic Republic of Iran through her own individual initiative. Addressing an audience at the 2011 TEDx event in Vancouver, Canada, Afshin-Jam reveals her hope to one day create an international body of justice for the victims of human rights abuses in the world.

Introduction: Muslim Hate Groups On Campus by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a new Freedom Center pamphlet that exposes the radical origins and violent objectives of the main Muslim student organizations on our nation’s campuses. These organizations, principally the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, are sponsors of the hate-fests known as “Israeli Apartheid Weeks” or “Palestine Awareness Weeks.” As Greenfield shows, they are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Several campus presidents of the Muslim Students Association have gone on to take up leadership positions in Al Qaeda.

To download the pamphlet, click here. To order the pamphlet, click here or buy it for 0.99 on Kindle.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently made news by referring to Barack Obama as a “Saul Alinsky radical” whose philosophy is destructive of traditional American values.  Who was Saul Alinsky? What was his message? How has his radical vision, a key element of the 1960s leftist assault on America, influenced Obama?

You can find the answers by reading David Horowtiz’s Obama’s Rules for Revolution:  The Alinsky Model posted below.  Since its publication in 2010, more than 2 million copies of this best selling pamphlet have been distributed.  Horowitz shows the entire iceberg whose tip was revealed in Newt Gingrich’s comment.

FrontPage has been covering the connection between Obama and Alinsky and other 60s radicals since the election of 2008.  This leftist network, which heavily influences the current White House, is dissected in detail in our encyclopedia of the Left, discoverthenetworks.org.

Please help the Freedom Center educate our citizens in this critical time about Obama’s efforts to radically transform America—his intellectual inheritance from Saul Alinsky. Please support the Freedom Center and help us immediately get another printing of Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model into circulation.

To purchase the pamphlet, click here.

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Ohio State University is currently in an uproar over an ad run by the David Horowitz Freedom Center in the student newspaper, The Lantern. The ad, titled “Former Leaders of the Muslim Student Association (MSA), Where Are They now?,” lists nine MSA co-founders and former presidents that have documented ties to terrorist groups. The story has now caught the attention of WBNS 10TV, which has reported on the denunciations by some students of the ad as “hate speech” and their complaints that The Lantern should have rejected it. It relays the Muslim Student Association’s statement that The Lantern “has a legal right to print such an advertisement, but has an ethical responsibility to reject hate speech.” WBNS 10TV’s report also includes an interview with David Horowitz for his defense of the ad.

Far from any kind of “hate speech,” the ad simply lists nine terrorists and jihad operatives — including one of the world’s most wanted men, Anwar al-Awlaki (killed in 2011 by the US government) — who were formerly presidents and co-founders of the MSA before their transition into terrorism. It states the irrefutable facts about these individuals and exposes a sinister trend in the ideological affiliation of the organization.

In light of this disturbing information being brought to the fore, it is no surprise that the MSA and others at OSU have acted swiftly to demonize the messenger in an effort to eclipse the content of the ad and to prevent future publication. But the Freedom Center ad says nothing remotely derogatory or hateful of Muslims or Islam, and that is why The Lantern found nothing wrong with publishing the ad in the first place.

More information on the radical origins and agenda, terrorist associations and anti-Semitism spread by the MSA and its partner organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, can be found in the Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, Muslim Hate Groups on Campus, a new Freedom Center pamphlet written by Shillman Journalism Fellow, Daniel Greenfield.

Watch WBNS 10TV’s video report on this story here.

Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week’s guest was:

Dave Bray, the lead singer of the new openly conservative rock band, Madison Rising. The band’s self-titled debut album was released on October 17, 2011 and has already charted in the top 100 best selling rock albums on both iTunes and Amazon.com. The overarching theme of the band’s music is that of liberty, independence, smaller government and personal responsibility. Visit the band’s site at MadisonRising.com.

[To read Jamie Glazov's Frontpage interview with Dave Bray, click here.]

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/01/25/the-jamie-glazov-show

See you next Tuesday night!

The Freedom Center’s advertisement is printed in full below this story.

Controversy is brewing at Ohio State University after The Lantern, the campus’s official student-run newspaper, published the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ad exposing the Muslim Student Association’s extensive links to terrorism. The advertisement, titled “Former Leaders Of The Muslim Student Association (MSA), Where Are They Now?,” lists nine MSA co-founders and former presidents that have documented ties to terrorist groups. These individuals rose to high leadership positions within organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with some serving prison time for their roles in terrorist operations. The list includes such terrorists of international notoriety as the recently dispatched Anwar al-Awlaki (former MSA president at Colorado State University).

In the face of such shocking information, students at OSU have opted to direct their ire at the messenger, even denying that the ad constitutes free speech. Some students, as reported by Sami Kishawi at the website Sixteen Minutes to Palestine, are alleging that the ad is “discriminatory” and are protesting to The Lantern’s editor, while the OSU’s MSA is “planning courses of action.” Kishwai quotes Jana Al-Akhras, a 2nd year student and member of the university’s MSA, as saying that the ad is “a blatant attempt at reinforcing stereotypes and causing widespread fear of Muslims on campus.” “There’s a fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech,” Al-Akhras said.

The Lantern publishing the ad, which says nothing remotely derogatory or “hateful” about Muslims or Islam, is an act of allowing freedom speech. Far from being discriminatory, the ad simply presents irrefutable and substantiated facts of former MSA leaders having ties terror. The facts show an undeniable trend in the ideological affiliations of the MSA, about which most university students have very little knowledge. The ad ties in directly with the Freedom Center’s campaign to expose the radical agenda, terrorist ties and virulent anti-Semitism promoted by the MSA and its partner organization, Students for Justice in Palestine. A new Freedom Center pamphlet, Muslim Hate Groups on Campus, written by Shillman Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield, provides irrefutable documentation of these disturbing realities.

The Freedom Center’s advertisement is printed in full below this story.

Controversy is brewing at Ohio State University after The Lantern, the campus’s official student-run newspaper, published the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ad exposing the Muslim Student Association’s extensive links to terrorism. The advertisement, titled “Former Leaders Of The Muslim Student Association (MSA), Where Are They Now?,” lists nine MSA co-founders and former presidents that have documented ties to terrorist groups. These individuals rose to high leadership positions within organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with some serving prison time for their roles in terrorist operations. The list includes such terrorists of international notoriety as the recently dispatched Anwar al-Awlaki (former MSA president at Colorado State University).

In the face of such shocking information, students at OSU have opted to direct their ire at the messenger, even denying that the ad constitutes free speech. Some students, as reported by Sami Kishawi at the website Sixteen Minutes to Palestine, are alleging that the ad is “discriminatory” and are protesting to The Lantern’s editor, while the OSU’s MSA is “planning courses of action.” Kishwai quotes Jana Al-Akhras, a 2nd year student and member of the university’s MSA, as saying that the ad is “a blatant attempt at reinforcing stereotypes and causing widespread fear of Muslims on campus.” “There’s a fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech,” Al-Akhras said.

The Lantern publishing the ad, which says nothing remotely derogatory or “hateful” about Muslims or Islam, is an act of allowing freedom speech. Far from being discriminatory, the ad simply presents irrefutable and substantiated facts of former MSA leaders having ties terror. The facts show an undeniable trend in the ideological affiliations of the MSA, about which most university students have very little knowledge. The ad ties in directly with the Freedom Center’s campaign to expose the radical agenda, terrorist ties and virulent anti-Semitism promoted by the MSA and its partner organization, Students for Justice in Palestine. A new Freedom Center pamphlet,  Muslim Hate Groups on Campus, written by Shillman Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield, provides irrefutable documentation of these disturbing realities.