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Volume XIII, Issue # 250, October 16, 2011
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ACADEMIC PAY TO PLAY: RADICAL ISLAMISTS
FUND ONE OF THEIR OWN IN ONTARIO
By Winfield Myers
ISLAMIST PENETRATION OF CANADIAN SOCIETY: ISLAMIST INROADS INTO CANADA'S INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION -- DEVELOPING AN ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN CANADA SIMILAR TO THE ONE OPERATING WITHIN THE
BORDERS OF THE U.S.A. -- SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA WAGING THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST BOTH
CANADA & THE U.S.A.
FULL STORY:
Huron University College (HUC) in Ontario announced Friday morning the appointment of Ingrid Mattson, a professor
at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut and former President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), as the first
London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at its Faculty of Theology.
The move validates widespread concern, as revealed in the Campus Watch article by Canadian journalist
Barbara Kay and a letter from concerned faculty and friends at HUC, both published in May, that the support of several
Islamist groups in funding the chair would lead to the appointment of a radical Islamist as the first holder. In Ingrid
Mattson, the funders' wishes have been fulfilled.
Mattson, an Ontario native and convert to Islam, whom the New York Times called, "perhaps the most noticed
figure among American Muslim women," has a long history of defending, denying, and obfuscating the true nature of
radical Islam in settings both academic and political. She was the first woman and convert to lead ISNA, which has
close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 U.S. v. Holy Land
Foundation, a terrorism financing case that tracked monies funneled to Hamas. Daniel Pipes has written that, under
Mattson's leadership, ISNA was "a key component of the Wahhabi lobby." Journalist Stephen Schwartz noted earlier
this year that, her tenure at ISNA complete, Mattson was "still advancing radical Islam," as she did in an October, 2001,
CNN chat room, when she claimed that Wahhabi Islam "really was analogous to the European Protestant Reformation."
Her new perch at HUC was funded in part by organizations with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood: the Muslim
Association of Canada (MAC) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). In 2008, Temple University
declined a $1.5 million gift from IIIT to endow a chair in Islamic studies, citing ongoing federal investigation of IIIT's
possible involvement in funding Palestinian terrorists. To make matters worse for HUC, the chair also involved the
Islamic Centre for Southwestern Ontario -- an organization with ties to a Libyan-based charity of now-deposed dictator
Muammar Qaddafi.
As reported by the Ottawa Citizen on May 7, 2011, the Islamic Centre's head, Assem Fadel, also led the
Libya-based World Islamic Call Society (WICS), whose charitable status was revoked by the Canadian government this
spring after it determined that a Libyan charity sent money to the private bank account of WICS's head -- the same
Assem Fadel. Fadel then transferred the money to WICS, from which it was sent to terrorist organizations outside
Canada.
The letter's writers stated the problem succinctly:
"Here we have a clear and indisputable link between
Qaddafi-sponsored terrorist related activities
involving the President of the Islamic Centre of
Southwestern Ontario, a funding organisation of the
chair in Islamic Studies."
In an April letter signed by twenty-six "alumni, friends, and faculty" of HUC, then-Interim-Principal (President) Trish
Fulton was alerted to the radical nature of the chair's supporters, including the Muslim Association of Canada's boasts
on its website that it seeks to practice Islam according to "the approach of Imam Hassan Al-Banna [who] best
exemplifies [a] balanced, comprehensive understanding of Islam." Al-Banna was the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood, the inspiration of many contemporary radical Islamist groups, and its motto is:
"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qu'ran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is
our highest hope."
Fulton dismissed these objections in a telephone conversation with Barbara Kay in May:
"To my [Kay's] question of whether she felt the beliefs
and principles of MAC and IIIT were 'compatible with
[Huron's] values,' I received a prompt and firm 'yes.' Dr.
Fulton elaborated: 'We don't probe deeply into values
held by donors.' Huron, she said, is 'concerned about
the legitimacy and the civic presence' of donors, but
'not the views they may hold on a wide variety of
cultural issues.' In Dr. Fulton's view, it is only a
group's 'actions' that would 'compromise the academic
pursuit.'"
Fulton's successor, Stephen McClatchie, took over HUC July 1, 2011. In the press release announcing Mattson's
appointment, McClatchie enthused, "Mattson brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise to this area of
study and Huron is privileged to have a scholar of her calibre." He said that HUC is "honoured" that she accepted
their offer.
It's likely that the financial supporters of Mattson's chair, with their ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Qaddafi
regime, are equally honored by the College's eagerness to do their bidding. After all, they got exactly what they paid
for.
Originally Published in Campus Watch, October 16, 2011
Republished with the Permission of Campus Watch
URL: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11795
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Canada: America's Northern Neighbor & Ally
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Currently, Winfield Myers is Director of Academic Affairs at the Middle East Forum. Previously, Myers served as
Managing Editor of The America Enterprise magazine at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research (2006-2011); Chief Executive Officer of the Democracy Project, Inc. (2005-2006); and Senior Editor &
Director of Communications at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2002-2005).
Myers's education includes five years' of study (1987-1992) towards the Ph.D. in History at the University of
Michigan, his having completed all the required work except the Doctoral Dissertation. He holds the B.A. and M.A.
degrees in History from the University of Georgia and the A.A. degree in Liberal Arts from Young Harris College.
Myers has very strong interests in higher education and its reform, public policy analysis, American and Canadian
foreign and national security policy, the history and defense of Western Civilization, Christian history and
theology, Southern U.S.A. history and literature, architecture, and management of non-profit organizations and
publications.
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