David Horowitz at UC Santa Barbara. The Freedom Center's president takes on MSA which whitewashes Islam's radical teachings and history and falsely depicts Muslim Americans as victims of widespread discrimination and violence. Established in 1975, the Muslim Students Association of the University of California at Santa Barbara (MSA UCSB) aims “to provide Muslim students with a space to share and enrich their Faith, organize events for Muslims and non-Muslims on [the] UCSB campus in order to raise awareness of Islamic issues, … provide accurate information about our often misrepresented Faith, and … contribute support, service, and diversity to the UCSB campus.” The organization is affiliated with MSA West but not with MSA National.

MSA UCSB depicts American Muslims as victims of widespread "discrimination," "harass[ment]," and "violent attacks" -- akin to "what the African Americans and Latinos endured in the pre-civil rights era.

On March 4, 2004, MSA UCSB members loudly and repeatedly disrupted a speech on the Santa Barbara campus by the Italian Muslim cleric Abdul Hadi Palazzi, a vocal critic of militant Islam whom they depicted as an apologist for "Zionism." One female MSA member asked Palazzi, “If not terrorism, what would they then do against the [Israeli] oppression?” After the speech, the MSAers ignored Palazzi's invitation to have them engage in a private, respectful dialog; instead they shouted various slogans and then left the hall. By contrast, Muslim students not affiliated with the school's MSA were respectful of Palazzi and did converse with him privately.