Tuesday, 28-Oct-2003 6:13 PM

Is the Wall Street Journal a Terrorist Front?

According to Bernama, which is now headed by a close ally of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, an FBI raid on a Herndon, Virginia, Muslim institute last year found documents which listed Anwar as a contributor to the institute's quarterly journal.

Is this supposed to be proof of a terrorist connection? Only in Malaysia, apparently.

Anwar has also written articles for Newsweek, Time, and the Wall Street Journal, amongst others.

Are they terrorist fronts, too?

But let's go back to the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), the “terrorist” journal published by the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Virginia. Among the members of the journal's international advisory board are such well-known “terrorists” as:

Louis Cantori, Director of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy

Professor John Esposito, Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University

Amien Rais, the Indonesian political leader

James P. Piscatori, University Lecturer in Islamic Politics Wadham College, Oxford University

and

M. Kamal Hassan, Rector of the International Islamic University, Malaysia

Perhaps we should ask Kalimullah Hassan and Rita Katz whether these people are also terrorists.

And who was it that appointed Kamal Hassan as the Rector of Malaysia’s International Islamic University? Should he not be investigated for terrorist links as well?