Saturday, January 17, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard L. Cravatts: Is Gaza's Islamic University an Educational Institution Academics Should Be Defending? - '...Nor is Islamic University alone in its role in helping to germinate radical Islam and jihadism. In fact, says Matthew Levitt, director of the Washington Institute's Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence, and Policy, the 11,000-student Al-Najah is the largest university in the territories, and "the terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and radicalization of students for which Al-Najah is known typically take place via various student groups," among them the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Bloc. "Of the thirteen members of Al-Najah's 2004 student council, eight," he says -- "including the chairperson -- belong to Hamas's Islamic Bloc."...'
