Project Veritas, the investigative organization begun by James O'Keefe to out organizational corruption and dishonesty, just released a video that shows a Barry University official embracing a proposed idea from an undercover videographer to start a pro-ISIS club at the Miami campus.
The video, part of the Project Veritas College Investigation Tour, opens with the narrative: "We told administrators we wanted to start a pro-ISIS club. Our investigator is actually an honor student at the university."
It opens with a man, identified as Derek Bley, coordinator for leadership development and student organizations at the campus, offering to help the undercover student, named Laura.
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Laura then says she wants to know the steps to forming a club on campus.
She says: "I wanted to start a like humanitarian club on campus. Do you think the name's OK? I mean, because I don't want it to be like too political. Like for students, Sympathetic Students in support of the Islamic State. ... I want to start fundraising efforts on campus and what I want to do is raise funds to send overseas."
She then asks: "You know, do you think that's OK ... to call it that or what would you recommend?"
Bley mulls it out loud: "It doesn't have Barry University in there."
But he then agrees taking out the ISIS reference in the title might be better because of the terrorist connection.
Laura says: "I guess [they're] terrorists, but that's the thing, like, we're trying to help these people because there's a correlation, so they are terrorists but like, we're trying to help them ... give them funding so that they don't have to be impoverished and get involved in acts of violence."
She then cites the U.S. State Department line of thought that terrorists need jobs and economic boosts to help them turn from their acts of violence.
Moments later, Laura asks Bley if he thought she could start the club. And his reply?
"Yeah, we're not here to limit people and their clubs," he said, the video shows. "If there is a demand or a need, or an interest that students have to do this, we're here to support that. So, but I would recommend maybe coming up with one or two other possible names just in case this one does not get through."
Laura later says in the video: "One of the things I want to do with the club, the Sympathetic Students in favor, in support of the Islamic State, I want to raise funds to send overseas and humanitarian efforts to help like the widows and the children of people who have died over there in the Islamic State. ... Does the school have resources? Do they donate [some of these supplies]?"
Bley suggested she would have to ask around, but "we have the bookstore," the video showed.
She then asked about the possibility of representing ISIS at the school's annual Festival of Nations.
The video goes white for a second then cuts to Bley, saying: "That would be a perfect event for what you are trying to bring education to."
Laura says: "Then we could pass out Islamic State flags and educate people," while Bley nods his head and assents.
The Project Veritas narrator cuts in and says Laura returns a couple days later to participate in further discussion about the club. But the topic of debate focuses only on the name, and not the mission, of the proposed group.
James O'Keefe, president of Project Veritas, said of the undercover clip in a written statement on his group's website: "It is disturbing to see our nation's university system festooned with professors and administrators that are sympathetic to ISIS."
The group just a few days ago released a video of one of Cornell University's assistant deans telling an undercover Project Veritas videographer it was OK by him to start a pro-ISIS club on that campus.
Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities, said then, as reported by WND: "The university is not going to look at different groups and say you're not allowed to support that group because we don't believe in them or something like that. I think it's just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what's going on in all parts of the world."