This presentation was put together with the hope of persuading the Board of Trustees of Nazareth College to see the err

1. Nazareth College and its
relationship with the International
Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Mr. Paul Sutliff, MS ED
Nazareth Alumni

2. Problem
• IIIT claims to be a moderate Muslim enclave of
academia and a center for espousing Interfaith.
• Nazareth College did not check to verify the truth
and validity of IIIT‟s claim, and pursued receipt of
$500,000.
▫ According to Dr. Shafiq‟s CV both he and Dr.
Braveman actively pursued this funding.

3. What is moderate Islam?
• Is it a Muslim who is more secular and less
Islamic?
▫ No, Muslims do not like the term secular to them
it means godless.

4. What is moderate Islam?
• Do moderate Muslims peddle a softer form of
Islam?
▫ Are they willing to co-exist peacefully with
peoples of other faiths?
 Yes, moderate Muslims exist who neither
commit acts of violence nor encourage others
to do so.
 Yes, moderates practice Itjihad rather than
jihad.
 Itjihad is settlement. The creation of Islamic
enclaves/communities then pushing for Islamic
laws to be accepted and used.
Khan, M. (n.d.). Who are the moderate muslims? Retrieved July 22, 2012, from Islam for Today:
http://www.islamfortoday.com/khan08.htm (NOTE: Khan claims to hold a moderate position but has
been caught endorsing suicide attacks. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/347)

5. What is moderate Islam?
• Do moderate Muslims peddle a softer form
of Islam?
▫ Are they comfortable with democracy and
the separation of politics and religion?
 Moderate Muslims believe in Shariah
law. Under Shariah democracy does not
exist, and there is no separation of
politics and religion.
Khan, M. (n.d.). Who are the moderate muslims? Retrieved July 22, 2012, from Islam for Today:
http://www.islamfortoday.com/khan08.htm (NOTE: Khan claims to hold a moderate position but has
been caught endorsing suicide attacks. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/347)

6. What is moderate Islam?
• The only true indicator of what we know as
moderate Islam is that of non-violence, both in
words and action.

7. Is IIIT an enclave for Moderate Islam
and academia?
• No, the founders of IIIT were members of the
Muslim Brotherhood
• No, various founders of IIIT were involved in the
creation of funding groups that funneled monies
to known terrorist groups
• No, IIIT has had personnel that maintained
direct connections to Osama Bin-Laden and the
Al Quaeda

8. Dr.
Hisham
Yahya
IIIT Founders Yaqub
Altalib
Basheer
and the Muslim Mirza Nafi
Brotherhood
Shaykh
Taha Dr. Jamal
Jabir al- Barzinji
Awani International
Institute of
Islamic
Thought
Founders that
are or were
Dr. Abdul Dr. Sami
members of the Hamid Alman
Muslim Sulayman Al-Arian
Brotherhood
Dr.
Anwar
Ahmed
Ibrahim
Totonji

9. What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
• Formed in 1928 by Hasaam Al- Banna
• Its stated purpose is still:
▫ Islam must dominate and not be dominated.
▫ The Restoration of the lost caliphate - i'adat al Khalifa al Mafqudah - is
the chief immediate political goal of the Islamist movement.
▫ Islam is currently inferior to the West because it deserted its roots. It will
triumph by returning to its pristine form.
▫ Social revolution and anti-colonial struggle are an integral and major
part of the mission of the Islamic revival.
▫ Violent Jihad is a central tenet of Islam and martyrdom in the cause of
Allah is highly valued. Violent Jihad is the greater Jihad, while inner
struggle for moral purity is the lesser Jihad.
▫ Islam must aim to take over the entire world and assert its superiority
through violent Jihad,
▫ Western civilization is doomed by its decadence and Jewish influence.
▫ Ideas such as democracy and human rights are products of Jewish
influence and Western decadence. Society must be ruled by God and not
men.
▫ The Jews are particularly vile enemies of Islam. Israel is to be opposed
because it is a foreign western implant.

10. Document found through
What is the Muslim Brotherhood doing
federal search warrant in
2002.
today?
• The current stated purpose for Muslims in
America according to the Muslim Brotherhood is
civilization jihad.
▫ Muslim Brother Explanatory Memo located
through an implemented search warrant:
• According to this memo IIIT is part of the MB

11. The Hamas is the “political
extension” of the
Muslim Brotherhood
• Hamas was created shortly before the December
1987 Intifada as a more militant, Palestinian
offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a
religious, political and social movement founded in
Egypt and dedicated to the gradual victory of Islam.
• Its virulent hatred of Jews and Judaism is deeply
rooted in the anti-Semitic writings of Muslim
Brotherhood theologians.
Source:
http://www.adl.org/main_Israel/hamas_facts.htm

12. The Hamas is the “political
extension” of the
Muslim Brotherhood
• Hamas means zeal. It is an acronym for Harakat
al-Muqawima al-Islamiyya, Islamic Resistance
Movement/ It was created as the armed wing of
the religious revivalist Muslim Brotherhood
(Ikhwan al-Muslimin) in Gaza, between 1987
and 1988.
http://mideastweb.org/hamashistory.htm

13. IIIT links to
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
• Dr. Sami Alman Al-Arian confessed to having
made or received contributions of funds, goods
or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad . . . in violation of 18 U.S.C. §371.”
R17-1563 at 1. He was sentenced to 57 months of
imprisonment.

14. PIJ history of terrorism Killed 105
Injured 235
1. An August 1987 shooting killed the commander of the Israeli military
police in the Gaza Strip.
2. A December 1993 shooting killed Israeli reservist David Mashrati aboard
a bus.
3. An April 1994 car bomb killed nine people and injured fifty aboard a
public bus.
4. A January 1995 a suicide bomb killed eighteen soldiers and one civilian
near Netanya.
5. A March 1996 suicide bomb at a Tel Aviv shopping mall killed thirteen
and injured seventy five more.
6. A June 2001 suicide bomb killed twenty-one people in a Tel Aviv
nightclub.
7. A June 2002 suicide attack at the Meggido Junction killed eighteen and
injured fifty.
8. An October 2003 suicide bomb at a Haifa restaurant killed twenty-two
and injured sixty.
9. An October 2005 bomb at a Hadera market killed five people.
10. An April 2006 suicide attack in Tel Aviv killed eleven.
11. A January 2007 suicide attack at an Eliat bakery killed three. Both the Al-
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PIJ claim responsibility.
Source: http://www.cfr.org/israel/palestinian-islamic-jihad/p15984#p8

15. IIIT links to
Al Qaeuda and Osama Bin Laden
• 1998 ABC News went to IIIT to make contact
with Tarik Abdulmelik Hamdi, who worked
as a publisher for IIIT, to get an interview with
Bin Laden. ABC was able to get the interview
and Hamdi was able to deliver a Sat phone
battery pack that according to federal agents was
used three months later in the bombing of
American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
▫ Affidavit of David Kane, March 13, 2002.
• Those bombings killed about 220 people and
wounded 4,000.

16. IIIT Leadership is still bragging about
having set up ways to fund terrorist
groups
• IIIT leadership had an intricate role in creating
the SAFA Trust and SAAR Group. Both groups
were determined to have been funding tools for
various terrorist groups.
• IIIT‟s current Vice-President, Dr. Jamal Barzinji
upon receiving an award from ISNA, was
introduced as having been a founder of both
SAAR and SAFA.

17. IIIT Publications promote violence
against non-Muslims
In examining the topic of
bias, “The Verse of the
Sword,” (ayah al-sayf) is
examined.
So when the sacred months have
passed away, then slay the idolaters
wherever you find them, and take
them captives and besiege them and
lie in wait for them in every
ambush, then if they repent and
keep up prayer and pay the poor-
rate, leave their way free to them;
surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

18. IIIT Publications promote violence
against non-Muslims
According to page 29, “the following
versus were considered abrogated:
• forgive them for God loves those
who do good to people
• repel evil with that which is best
• so patiently persevere
• do not argue with the People of the
Book except with means that are
best
• and (say:) You have your religion
and I have my religion.’

19. IIIT Publications promote violence
against non-Muslims
[Q]: How can Islam be an
ethical way of life if it
encourages terrorism?
An act of terrorism is that in
which “innocent people
(civilians or non-civilians) are
harmed in a way that goes
against the principles of
justice and human dignity.

20. IIIT Publications promote violence
against non-Muslims
• The average person will
not catch what is
happening here. They
will not ask the question:
▫ “Who are the innocent
according to Islam?”
 They do not see this is a
secret statement of
approval.
▫ The Innocence question
answered

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22. Conclusion:
• In order for Nazareth College to maintain its
academic integrity it must end its relationship
with the International Institute of Islamic
Thought immediately, or it risks being accused
of condoning what western society defines as
terrorist action by Muslims.