Nothing to be thankful for: Radical cleric speaks at college

It's been a while since I've written about radicals speaking at a college, and even longer since the topic wasn't Bill Ayers. James Richardson writes in Red State about Siraj Wahhaj, a Muslim cleric who was named in 1995 an unindicted coconspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj was invited to speak at Queens College, New York event called "How Islam Perfected Thanksgiving."

What's not to be thankful for is that the group that invited Wahhaj, the Muslim Student Association, has a history of associating itself with radicals.

Richardson writes:

Despite Wahhaj's altogether sordid and troubling past, the imam was invited with open arms to campus of Queens College by the Muslim Student Association (MSA), whose members just days before attended a College Republican film screening event of an anti-radical Muslim film and reportedly laughed and muttered "good" as beheading footage of American businessmen and the collapse of the World Trade Centers aired.

At a debate following the film, one MSA member said, "If I had enough money I would be part of the jihad army, I would kill all the Jews," according to one College Republican present. Another spoke of getting a "bomb."

The MSA receives fund from Queens College. That's scandalous.

So is this: Wahhaj attended a New York City Hall Muslim community meeting last month--he was invited by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In 1996, Wahhaj testified as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik.

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