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11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association

Feb 6, 2015 10:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Salman Ashrafi2Surprised? Really? Discover The Networks reports that “the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA (also known as MSA National), was established mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Nyack College theologian Larry A. Poston writes that ‘many of the founding members of this agency [MSA] were members of, or had connections to,’ the Muslim Brotherhood or Jamaat-i-Islami….MSA speakers routinely spew anti-Semitic libels and justify the genocide against the Jews which is promoted by Islamic terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and by the government of Iran.”

The Muslim Brotherhood, according to a captured internal document that names the MSA as one of its arms in the U.S., is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.”

“Canadian terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association,” by Brian Daly, QMI Agency, February 6, 2015:

MONTREAL – 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 number of MSA clubs is estimated at several hundred across North America, providing prayer space and social events as well as speeches by imams and other Islamic presenters.

Some MSA members had more sinister plans, however, including al-Qaida financier Ahmed Said Khadr, the now-deceased head of Canada’s first family of terror and father of convicted killer Omar Khadr.

In her 2008 book entitled Guantanamo’s Child, journalist Michelle Shephard said the father was radicalized at the University of Ottawa’s MSA in the 1970s….

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured, Muslim Students Association Tagged With: Awso Peshdary, Khadar Khalib, Salman Ashrafi, Yahya Maguire


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  1. Huck Folder says

    Feb 6, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    Just Google : cbc msa and the first hit is this:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/algonquin-college-muslim-students-association-denounce-extremism-1.2945534

    [Nice to see CBC pull its head out of its arse, once in a while:]

    “Ottawa’s Algonquin College and its Muslim Student Association say they’re [now] working to fight extremism after current and former members have been associated with a man charged with terrorism-related offences this week.”

    They’ve been caught with their pants down, and in a compromising position.

    Again.

    “Later that afternoon, the association issued a statement saying it was “shocked and deeply disturbed” that former volunteers are now facing charges.” [That they were caught.]

    “Violent extremist ideology uses a cut-and-paste approach to our faith and distorts and perverts the teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him),” said the statement, emailed to CBC News by the association’s vice-president Adam Tulul.”

    So-called ‘secular’ ideology or apologism uses a cut-and-paste approach, and distorts and perverts the teachings and example of the ‘prophet’ muhammad, who stated that: “The best jihad is the one in which your horse is slain and your blood is spilled.”, said the statement, emailed to CBC News by the association’s vice-president Adam Tulul.

    “Our advice to anyone with grievances about issues like Canadian foreign policy or the status of Muslims living in Canada and abroad is to channel their energies proactively by becoming engaged citizens who express themselves through peaceful means, as well as who work to positively contribute to their communities.”

    Who says this has ANYTHING to do with Canada.

    It is ONLY and ENTIRELY an issue of islam!

    • Huck Folder says

      Feb 6, 2015 at 11:03 pm

      Sorry, I kinda missed the point of the title and ‘thrust’ of that CBC taqiyya:

      “Algonquin College, Muslim Students Association denounce extremism”

      Should have read:

      “Algonquin College a Hotbed of Islam and Jihadism,
      Muslim Students Association Caught Red-Handed Again.”

  2. pongidae rex says

    Feb 6, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    “We reject the notion that German National Socialism (the NAZI party) is an extremist organization simply because a tiny minority of extremists have committed acts of violence, racism and anti-Semitism. We declare our solidarity with the vast majority of the German people who are decent, peaceful and law abiding citizens.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938

    The above quotation does not exist and never happened. It it did, the USA would be a German speaking vassel state of the Third Reich with a puppet government installed by Berlin. Jews and Judaism would be extinct on this planet.

  3. Georg says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 12:09 am

    Shameless, but what else is new? All it takes is a quick glance at MSAers spouting off in just about any video to understand they’re often kooks who are hysterically fixated on ethnicity and would like everyone else to be as well. What a pleasant bunch. “Islam this, Muslim that, Muhammad, racist, Islamophobe, me, me, me, boo hoo, gimme, Koran, look at me, don’t look at me, say this, don’t say that, I can’t eat that, I have to eat this, I have to wear this, I can’t do that, I have to do this, I don’t like that, you have to like this, wear a hijab even though this is a public school and a Christian country, give us days off even though we’re .2% of the population, don’t cooperate with the FBI then complain we’re sometimes regarded with suspicion, be cold with kaffirs in their own country then cry when they’re cold with you, you must regard Islam as a great religion and are racist if you don’t, be ashamed of being American, be ashamed of being European, even though we moved here voluntarily this place sucks and you oppress us, let us teach anti-American classes in schools paid for by American taxpayers, litigate, litigate, litigate, jahiliyah, prey upon good will and be bitter for it.” And then some are perfectly fine, normal people. But I think we’ve all had it with the former, thank you.

    • Georg says

      Feb 7, 2015 at 12:45 am

      Here are some charmers that took all of 10 seconds to find:

      Watch here for the woman, I mean sister, dressed for an ascent of K2

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FwIC7agtqE

      Watch here for someone nobody should learn from

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNCYRBBEu8

      See How You Look in a Hijab (aka don’t be like the surrounding kaffir whores and 101 other ways to rationalize and relish real oppression and suffer imagined oppression, or perhaps earn extra bonus points and maybe even an all-time high score by passive aggressively suggesting all non-Muslims are immodest lowlifes! What?! We didn’t sayyyyy that!) *yawn* Spare me…

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 3:56 am

    Canadian non-Muslims *have* to write – and keep on writing – to their MPs and to the PM, demanding that the Muslim Brotherhood and all of its proxies, catspaws, “fronts” and wholly owned franchises (such as the Muslim Students’ Association) be BANNED, and all MB operatives identified, and sent packing. If citizens: then exile, or de-citizening.

    Aussies have to do the same.

    And Americans.

    All of us.

    Not write just once. Write once a month, and keep it up. If they fob us off with weaselwords, ignore the fob-off, and write again.

    And every time we write we should cite, chapter and verse, news stories like this one, as proof of a Clear and Present Danger.

    And the Danger, once recognised as real, can be made *less* Present, by evicting all MB operatives.

    • Georg says

      Feb 7, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      It’s illuminating to see how harshly something like the EDL is treated, despite their almost non-existent violence, and then to see how the MSA is treated. Every time you turn around MSA are linked with actual, bona fide, real-life terrorists- most commonly with the Muslim Brotherhood, who’d like to destroy our society from within, of course with CAIR, who are a thinly burqa-ed, I mean hijab-ed, I mean niqab-ed, grrrr, what’s wrong with me today… VEILED hybrid fifth-column-world’s-biggest-cry-baby-grievance-mongers, and now *drum roll* Islamic State! It’s a hat trick. They must be so proud.

      Why do I think if the EDL had 1/300 the criminal links they’d be “proscribed” if they were so lucky, and probably worse.

    • Alissa says

      Feb 8, 2015 at 8:36 am

      Every body on this blog says the same thing. We’ve got to stand up against these muslims; why isn’t the government doing something about them; look what these extremists did, are doing, will do, etc. etc.

      I agree with the outrage. We have to realize though that we are at war with them. They collectively know that and are prepared. We don’t and we aren’t. They are a major force to contend with even if they are just a fraction of our population because they are organized and cohesive and thoroughly hate-filled and violent…something we find shocking and terrifying because unlike them, we’re civilized.

      We have to understand that to oppose them with any sort of force with bring out an onslaught of their wrath. They will feel justified in delivering the full force of their jihad. This is why the government now is afraid to deal with them because in so doing our society will come to a stand still. People won’t get up in the morning and go to work. They won’t be hanging out at the mall on weekends or planning their summer vacation. It will escalate quickly into anarchy. In North America, they should have taken action when they first uncovered the muslim brotherhood mandate in the late 80’s; in Europe they should have taken action at least two generations ago. Our governments didn’t take action and protect us. They continued allowing dangerous people to immigrate. I think it’s going to happen but it will be catastrophic. I use to think that “preppers” were silly. I don’t anymore.

  5. Lia Wissing says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 4:49 am

    Will the MSA now be totally & absolutely banned from Canadian university campuses?

    • Georg says

      Feb 7, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      No

  6. cs says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 5:57 am

    Hummm, perhaps there is a connection… Perhaps it is not a religion of peace after all.

  7. Angemon says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 8:02 am

    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.

    Only eleven? Me thinks they’re not digging deep enough.

  8. Solo3 says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 9:40 am

    Could it be we have “lone wolf packs” around universities and mosques ?

  9. gp says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 10:17 am

    What a vile looking devil pictured above.

    But good news, once he is killed over there, his body will just rot (like all the other wicked ISIS filth) and he will never be sent home and no one will come forward to bury that scum.

    fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/29/unwanted-bodies-foreign-isis-fighters-pile-up-in-iraqi-hospitals/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obinsite

  10. Ayatrollah says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 11:30 am

    Is it islamiphobic to report on this stuff or islamiphobic to actually do it?

  11. Walter Jem says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    Somebody should inform the Muslim students that the 72 virgins? all got Aids from their whoring with Muslim men.

  12. abad says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    Meh, no, I’m not surprised.

    On a side note, one of my college professors at the converted to Islam from Christianity when he was doing his PhD in Islam and I have to wonder if his Muslim friends encouraged him to convert under the auspices of a terrorist group…….sad how some college students are so impressionable. Luckily I never had to worry about that during my university days, being well grounded….

  13. Noel Hershfield says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 4:11 am

    I have been following the BDS movement for years.Have attempted to submit articles and letters to the editor about their activities on our campuses,but was told by one editor that I di not know what I was talking about,and some insulting statements about my grammar. Not mush about them in our press either.the blind leading the blind!

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