MESA’s leaders never met an Islamist they didn’t embrace, so it’s in keeping with their fallen reputations that their annual conference next month in DC will feature a reception for the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization. In a Campus Watch article posted today atAmerican Thinker, I examine just how far IIIT’s tentacles reach into America’s universities:
The field of Middle East studies has a troublesome penchant for partnering with Islamist organizations. Case in point: The 2014 annual conferenceof the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) will host an International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) reception at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC on November 23.
Thetrue natureof IIIT, a Virginia-based think tank, was revealed during the 2007 U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, which unearthed a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandumnaming IIIT as one of the likeminded organizationsin the U.S dedicated to a “grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” so that “God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.” . . . As far back as 1988, an FBI investigation exposed IIIT’s goalto “get inside . . . American universities” for the larger purpose of instituting “the Islamic Revolution in the United States.” Clearly, IIIT is making headway.
