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Anti-Muslim Activists Tied to Peter King Want to Ban Muslim Students Group

Brigitte Gabriel of ACT! for America, one of the leading anti-Muslim activists in the country, wants the University of California, Los Angeles to ban the Muslim Student Association. Gabriel is no marginal figure, as her group won a glowing endorsement from Rep. Susan Myrick (R-NC) (link is external)and she will host Rep. Peter King (R-NY)(link is external), who is using his perch as the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee to launch investigations into Muslim American communities(link is external), on her premier talk show(link is external). In addition, ACT! for America’s David Yerushalmi was heavily influential in shaping legislation in Tennessee (link is external)and Missouri (link is external)that would make it a crime to practice Sharia law, the legal code of Islam.

ACT! for America recently announced that it wants UCLA to ban the campus chapter(link is external) of the Muslim Student Association(link is external) due to the groups purported links to radical Islam. “We at ACT for America are serving this petition to UCLA in our effort to ban the assembly of any group advocating the overriding of the laws of the United States Of America with their own set of laws on a publicly funded university such as UCLA,” says the group in a letter to UCLA’s Chancellor(link is external), “We are specifically sighting the Muslim Student Association in violation of this.”

The letter goes on to say(link is external), “We demand that they be removed from campus on the grounds that their purpose is to conduct a stealth jihad against America through the indoctrination of our youth on college campuses.”

Now that ACT! for America has made its extreme agenda even more obvious, does Congressman King agree with his allies at ACT! for America that universities should ban groups which represent Muslim students?