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In footage that gave Jewish students and parents flashbacks to October 7, two Virgina-area high school chapters of the Muslim Students Association created and posted theatrical recruitment videos which show students who refuse an invitation to attend a meeting of the MSA club being violently assaulted and kidnapped.
The MSA club at Langley High School in McLean, Virginia posted the first of the videos to Instagram in September. In the amateur production, a young woman clad in a pink hijab approaches a male student in a parking lot and asks him, “Are you coming to the MSA meeting this Wednesday?” When the boy responds, “Heck, no!” two other male students rush in, throw a black cloth bag over his head, and stuff him in the trunk of a nearby car that takes off with the trunk still ajar. Ethnic sounding music plays throughout the scene.
The same hijabed young woman is then shown repeating her question about attending the MSA meeting to three young women standing nearby. They respond hesitantly in the affirmative, clearly meant to be cowed by the abduction they just witnessed. The woman in the pink hijab then announces the time and location for the upcoming meeting before the camera cuts away.
The following month, students from nearby Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia posted a similar but even more disturbing performance. Shot inside a classroom in their high school, the video depicts a young woman with a black hijab and a Palestinian keffiyeh around her neck. The keffiyeh is a symbol widely associated with anti-Israel terrorism and the pro-Palestinian cause.
The young woman asks two male students, “Are you guys going to the MSA meeting tomorrow?” The boys respond cavalierly, “No, no, what is that? What is MSA, bruh?” Following this refusal, two more male students enter the scene. One carries another large keffiyeh which he throws over the head of one of the refusing students, and drags him away behind a black screen. The second confederate lifts the other refusing student and deposits him in a plastic bin, covers him in a third keffiyeh, and drags him away.
The young woman then approaches two more students, one of whom is clad in a black sweatshirt that depicts the entire nation of Israel in the red, white and green of the Palestinian flag. “Are you guys coming the MSA meeting tomorrow?,” she again asks. “Yes, of course!” they respond.
The two videos quickly spread online, horrifying Jewish students and their parents who interpreted them as mocking Hamas’s barbaric October 7 massacre and kidnapping of Israeli civilians.
“This particular video so clearly referenced and implicated events in the Middle East, it’s impossible to dismiss it as just a random manifestation of some online trend,” commented Guila Franklin Siegel, chief operating officer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, said of the Thomas Jefferson video that included multiple keffiyehs and a shirt depicting the entirety of Israel as Palestine. “And if we throw our hands up and say, ‘Well, that’s just something the kids are doing online,’ we’re failing them.”
“It’s almost chilling to see teenagers so lively acting out something that is so horrific,” added Franklin Siegel. “Parents are beyond outraged.”
To their credit, school district administrators did condemn the videos and promised to take action. “Acting out this type of violence is traumatizing for many of us to watch and, given world events, especially traumatizing to our Jewish students, staff, and community,” wrote Thomas Jefferson Principal Michael Mukai in a communication to parents.
“These videos depict violence, including kidnappings, with victims being hooded and placed in the trunk of a car, among other things,” said a representative from the Fairfax County School District, which promised that the students would face disciplinary consequences for violating school rules. CombatAntisemitism.org reported that several Thomas Jefferson students received school suspensions for their actions.
Both high schools are part of the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). In late November, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce announced that it would be investigating the Fairfax school district, as well as districts in Philadelphia, and Berkeley, California for failing to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination which violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
In a letter to Fairfax Schools Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid, the Committee described some of the incidents which led them to target the district in its investigation:
Jewish students allegedly faced repeated antisemitic bullying, including other students making the “Heil Hitler” salute and throwing coins at them. Another school for years allegedly refused to remove a hallway display that included painted tiles, 40 percent of which featured swastikas and Nazi flags. Just prior to the October 7th attacks, one high school’s Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) hosted a speaker who had made grotesque antisemitic statements. For example, he had tweeted, “I’m not racist I love everyone. Except the yahood [Jews],” and “Never met a Jew who didn’t have a huge nose.” In addition, one of FCPS’ own school board members repeatedly posted antisemitic messages online—using accounts that identified her as a member of the school board—including statements such as “Israel doesn’t exist.”
Predictably, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) defended the MSA students, claiming that the decision to discipline them for their conduct resulted from “racist tropes and stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs.”
“The video mirrors a popular trend of students promoting their events on campuses across the country,” CAIR claimed.
While the MSA recruitment videos were clearly intended as a tasteless joke, they point to an uncomfortable truth about Islam and its adherents. Dissent is not tolerated and is punishable by violence and death.
JihadWatch.org director Robert Spencer has described how these attitudes are intrinsic to Islam. “Islam is the only religion in the world that has a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates violence against unbelievers and mandates that Muslims must wage war in order to establish the hegemony of the Islamic social order all over the world,” Spencer explained.
The irony of the MSA videos is that the violence they depict is not really a joke. In the world of radical Islam, the threat is all too real.
“JihadWatch.org director Robert Spencer has described how these attitudes are intrinsic to Islam. “Islam is the only religion in the world that has a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates violence against unbelievers and mandates that Muslims must wage war in order to establish the hegemony of the Islamic social order all over the world,” Spencer explained.”
Yeah, right. Christianity NEVER resulted in violence and persecution of the Jews for being Jews or Christian heretics for being heretics. No Christian was ever burned at the stake for being a heretic or a blasphemer.
“The issue is not Islam versus Christianity. Every religion by its nature, by its rejection of reason, is compelled to turn to force and violence — ultimately. Every religion is a threat to civilization as soon as it can get its hands on political power. Just as Christianity was a threat and a malignant force for 1,000 years after Rome fell.” – Leonard Peikoff, “America versus Americans”
I hope you never have children!!!!!
Excluding Judaism.
Here, here! Couldn’t agree more.
You are what Dennis Prager categorized as a “moral relativist.” Apparently you cannot distinguish evil from good.
Your argument conceals a fatal misunderstanding: it mistakes the RCC and its spin-offs (“daughters” in religious-speak) for true Christianity. They are definitely not Christian as they fundamentally reject NT biblical teachings substituting their own interpretations and practices. The rest, as they say, is history.
When a believer obeys the NT teachings, violence is non-existent. In fact, the violence is always perpetrated by the adversaries of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Read the NT for proof, especially the writings of Paul.
You msa fools WILL rue
the day you slid out from under your slimy rock!!! I promise.
Christianity does not promote violence against people of any faith. A few people who call themselves Christians might, but you can’t blame the religion for the erroneous beliefs of a few.
you are ignorant. read history books. What Christian colonialists did in South America, Africa, Asia..
What have they done to Jews in Europe during 1000 years!!!
Why do we even HAVE a “muslim students association”?? What a most ludicrous thing to allow ourselves to be destroyed from the inside, out.
Islam needs to be completely banned in all civilized nations – and hopefully, once people finally admit to themselves that it is NOT a religion, maybe we can all agree and collectively empty them from our nations.
JihadWatch.org director Robert Spencer has described how these attitudes are intrinsic to Islam. “Islam is the only religion in the world that has a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates violence against unbelievers and mandates that Muslims must wage war in order to establish the hegemony of the Islamic social order all over the world,” Spencer explained.
You are right and Spencer is wrong: Islam is NOT a religion. It is a violent bigoted ideology that includes religious beliefs.
Do these same colleges and schools have Christian Student Associations?
Dhimmi leadership is the strength of Islamic insanity. History tells us that Islam is an aggressive leukemia coursing through any agreeable body politic. The willful ignorance of society always gets a rude education..
The evil that has been done in the name of Christ has gone against what Christ taught. Unfortunately, all of the evil done in the name of Allah and Mohammed has been prescribed by Mohammed and his Koranic rantings (since Allah doesn’t exist, except in the fantasies of the islamic faithful).
The last 1400 years has proved the impossibility for Muslims to live in peace with none Muslims. America is just start learning what Middle Eastern people knew since 7th century. And many Americas still refusing to accept the reality..
Exile ALL mooslums
Islam isn’t a religion but a political construct. It’s evil
The only reason Middle Eastern Muslims migrate to Europe or the US is to leech off taxpayers and jump on every welfare program available.
THEY RUINED EUROPE AS MUCH AS AMERICA. A COUNTRY IS NO COUNTRY AS LONG AS WE ARE OVERRUN WITH ILLEGALS AND REFUGEES. NO FOREIGNERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN OUR GOVERNMENT. JUST LISTEN TO THE RANTINGS OF ”TLAIB” AND OMAR. I HOPE THE SQUAD WILL BE REMOVED ASAP. THEY ARE TRAITORS TO OUR COUNTRIE. ALL CHRISTIANS NEED TO STAND STRONG AGAINST THE EVIL OF MOSLEM……………………………
The Schools these days have become a total waste of time for the Parents of the youth Home Schooling would be way better then all that Brainwashing/Indoctrination
the fucking teachers need to be lynched in front of these fucking teenage students – these fucking teenage students are going to grow to be radical and dangerous and should be lynched too to save us the future casualties from their terrorist acts!
wake the f up!
The moslem population in America must be repatriated, exiled, banned, and deported– there is no other option. Had this been Jewish students doing this, or Christian students, there would have been pandemonium and roiting by moslems.
This discussion needs to happen now as the population of the Mujahideen has reached crisis level in our country. No more negotiating about what level of islam would be acceptable in America. The answer: none.
If this had been done by Jewish or Christian students there would be fed/state law enforcement going after them! Islam has been granted ‘protected’ status and can do no wrong. CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization but still seems to be above the law. Government, instead of nipping this in the bud, has allowed it to flourish. Our own government, at all levels, are our own worst enemy.
Only major money matters. If If If there were any lawyers who would represent student who are Jewish, Christian, other moral and decent people to sue and to bankrupt the school districts then the schools and taxpayers would notice and reject Muslim students and their organization. Allowing this and slow walking or minimizing consequences enables it.
The USA needs to officially adopt a definition for what a religion is and what it is not. Of course, that definition would preclude faith systems that promote violence and other violations of federal laws. States could do the same to cover any other aspects of Sharia law not specified by federal law.