Profs Cover for Muslim Brotherhood Front

Abdulaziz Sachedina

The disturbing relationship between the field of Middle East studies and the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), continues to flourish. In the latest Campus Watch research, Andrew Harrod covers an IIIT panel discussion on Islamic sectarianism featuring Abdulaziz Sachedina, the International Institute of Islamic Thought Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University. His report appears today at Jihad Watch:

"I am simply a Muslim . . . one who submits to God," neither Sunni nor Shiite, stated Abdulaziz Sachedina, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University, at a recent IIIT panel. Nonetheless, "The Need for Intra-Muslim Dialogue," which took place before about thirty-five in the conference room of IIIT headquarters in Virginia following evening Muslim prayer, indicated why Islamic ecumenism remains largely a pious hope.

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-linked IIIT is a promoter of the MB's propagandistic "Islamization of knowledge" movement and the widely-used "Islamophobia" canard, with disturbingly deep connections to the field of Middle East studies. . . . Amidst such dubious characters appeared IIIT research director Ermin Sinanović. With no evident official concern, Sinanović teaches Middle Eastern politics to America's future warriors as an assistant professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy.

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