At MIT Siddiqui lived in the all-female McCormick Hall . She continued to be active in charity work and proselytising . Her fellow MIT students described her as being religious , which was not unusual at the time , but not a fundamentalist , one of them saying that she was " just nice and soft-spoken . " She joined the Muslim Students ' Association , and a fellow Pakistani recalls her recruiting for association meetings and distributing pamphlets . Siddiqui began doing volunteer work for the Al Kifah Refugee Center after returning from Pakistan . Al Kifah included members who assassinated Jewish ultranationalist Meir Kahane and helped Ramzi Yousef with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing . She was known for her effectiveness in shaming audiences into contributing to jihad and the only woman known to have regularly raised money for Al-Kifah . Through the student association she met several committed Islamists , including Suheil Laher , its imam , who had publicly advocated Islamization and jihad before 9/11 . Journalist Deborah Scroggins suggested that through the association 's contacts Siddiqui may have been drawn into the world of terrorism : Aafia 's commitment to al-Kifah showed no sign of dimming when the connection between its Jersey City branch and the World Trade Center bombing became apparent . When the Pakistani government helped the US arrest and extradite Ramzi Yousef for his role in the bombing ( where Yousef hoped to kill 250,000 Americans by knocking one WTC tower over into the other ) an outraged Siddiqui circulated the announcement with a scornful note deriding Pakistan for " officially " joining " the typical gang of our contemporary Muslim governments " , closing her email with a quote from the Quran warning Muslims not to take Jews and Christians as friends . She wrote three guides for teaching Islam , expressing the hope in one : " that our humble effort continues ... and more and more people come to the religion of Allah until America becomes a Muslim land . " She also took a 12-hour pistol training course at the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club , mailed US military manuals to Pakistan and moved from her apartment after the FBI agents visited the university looking for her
assassinated Jewish ultranationalist Meir Kahane
Assassination of Meir Kahane
Aafia Siddiqui