Officials at the University of California at Los Angeles have rejected a prominent advocacy group’s demands that they remove a Muslim Students Association chapter from the campus. ACT for America, a group founded to combat what it regards as Islamic radicalism, has gathered more than 900 signatures on a petition urging UCLA to ban the association “on the grounds that their purpose is to conduct a stealth jihad against America through the indoctrination of our youth on college campuses.” In leveling such accusations, ACT for America has cited remarks made in January at a Muslim conference at the university—remarks that Phil Hampton, a UCLA spokesman, says the group has mischaracterized. Mr. Hampton says the Muslim group has done nothing that justifies banning it. David Horowitz, a conservative who often criticizes radical Islam, has issued a statement calling the ACT for America campaign misguided because it would curtail the Muslim Students Association’s First Amendment rights.
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