“This is so encouraging because it is about time universities start taking responsibility for the actions of some of these groups that are out of control,”

An Arab-American and terrorism expert is encouraged that the University of California-Irvine has suspended a Muslim student group for a February protest that disrupted a talk by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

UC-Irvine has suspended the campus chapter of the Muslim Student Union for at least a year because of the incident that led to the arrests of 11 students.

On Monday, the university released a letter from a student affairs disciplinary committee to Muslim Student Union leaders, telling them the group was found guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities, and other violations of campus policy during Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s appearance in February.

The disciplinary committee found that the Muslim Student Union did in fact engineer the protests and instructed participants to lie about its involvement.

Brigitte Gabriel is founder and president of ACT! For America, and author of her own bestseller They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She is pleased that the university did the right thing.