IMAM WILL LECTURE ON HOW THE MOSLEMS “PERFECTED THANKSGIVING”….AT QUEENS COLLEGE
IMAM IN QUEENS COLLEGE FLAP
By DAN MANGAN
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A controversial imam who authorities have called an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is scheduled to speak tonight to a Muslim student group at Queens College on the subject “How Islam Perfected Thanksgiving.”
The appearance by Brooklyn mosque imam Siraj Wahhaj – who also testified for convicted terror plotter “blind Sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman – and a recent nasty verbal altercation involving members of the Muslim Student Association that invited him, has spurred some other students to demand that Queens College cut off funding for that group.
The MSA “definitely should not be funded by the taxpayers,” Queens College Republicans Vice President Ryan James Girdusky told The Post.
“The MSA has shown itself to be an alleged possible breeding ground of anti-American jihad’s thoughts,” Girdusky wrote the CUNY school’s president in a recent letter.
Professor Tim Rosen said that at a screening of the anti-radical Muslim film “Fitna” two weeks ago, a MSA member was “laughing” and muttered “good” during footage showing American businessman Nicholas Berg being beheaded by terrorists in Iraq, and that the student was “giggling and saying ‘good’ ” during footage of planes hitting the Twin Towers.
At a raucous post-screening debate with Queens College Republicans, who hosted the film, an MSA member said, “If I had enough money I would be part of the jihad army, I would kill all the Jews,” recalled College Republicans treasurer Eli Karl.
“He said, ‘When I get enough money, I’m going to do some pretty bad things . . . and he talked about getting a bomb,” recalled Karl, who now supports de-funding MSA.
Girdusky said a female member of MSA “said something like, ‘How could you show something like this [the movie] when we get attacked for denying the Holocaust? ‘ ”
The MSA did not respond to requests for comment.
Karim Abdullah, a spokesman for Wahhaj, said the allegation that the imam was somehow involved in the 1993 bombing is completely baseless. And Abdullah said that Wahhaj testified as an “expert witness” in the case of terror booster Rahman, not as an advocate.
Mayor Bloomberg last week expressed regret for having Wahhaj attend a Nov. 12 City Hall meeting of Muslim leaders, where the mayor and the imam had shaken hands.
Queens College, when asked about Wahhaj issued a statement noting that speakers invited to campus are protected by the Constitutional guarantee of free speech.
The college also said it has “award-winning programs to foster peace between Muslims and Jews.”
Queens College did not address a question about how campus security responded when some members of the College Republicans called security to report the MSA member who had mentioned “jihad” and a “bomb” after the movie screening.
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