Academia is about indoctrination instead of higher education.
Via Sun News
Eleven of Canada’s highest-profile jihadi terrorists, terror suspects and alleged extremists have ties to the Muslim Students Association, a security conference has heard.
The data was presented on Thursday evening by the Canadian Military Intelligence Association in Ottawa, where three men were charged Tuesday with terrorism-related offences.
Suspect Awso Peshdary, 25, was an invited speaker of the Muslim Students Association at Ottawa’s Algonquin College last year. He’s accused of financing efforts to send recruits from Canada to Syria to join the Islamic State.
A second man, Khadar Khalib, 23, was a member of the same MSA and the third suspect, John Maguire, 24, attended MSA events at the University of Ottawa. The latter two are believed to be in Syria.
The 11 named at the security conference range from people, like Maguire, who reportedly attended a few MSA events, to top executives like former MSA leader Salman Ashrafi of Calgary.
He blew himself up in November 2013 in a double suicide bombing at an Iraqi military base, reportedly killing 46 people on behalf of ISIS.
Former friends in Lethbridge, Alberta say Ashrafi was very involved in the MSA.
The Muslim Students Association has operated on Canadian campuses since its inception the early 1960s when Canada’s Muslim population numbered just a few thousand.[…]
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the conservative think-tank Middle East Forum have all reported that the MSA was heavily financed by Saudi Arabia.
In its 2003 profile of the group, the Wall Street Journal noted that Saudi Arabia has “for decades has tried to inculcate young people with a fundamentalist and intolerant version of Islam.”
E-mails to MSA’s North American headquarters in Flint, Michigan were not returned by press time.
However, Adam Tulul, MSA president at Algonquin College, told QMI in an e-mail that the organization “unequivocally condemns violent extremism in all its forms.”
He said anyone who opposes Canadian foreign policy should “channel their energies proactively by becoming engaged citizens who express themselves through peaceful means.”
HT JettieG