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Condemnation of the United States' Middle East policy.
Vicious attacks on Israel as a racist, genocidal apartheid state.
Justifications for terrorism and defenses of its perpetrators.
These have been the stock in trade of policy statements by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) over the years.
Many of those statements, detailed in the second installment of a new report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), appeared in the pages of The Minaret, a now-defunct monthly magazine affiliated with the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC). MPAC has been closely intertwined with ICSC -- which originally gave it life -- by way of overlapping leadership and membership. Indeed, many MPAC officials worked simultaneously with The Minaret itself until it suspended publication in 2005.