Over the next two weeks, Frontpage
will publish profiles of individual chapters of the Muslim Students
Association and Muslim Student Union on a variety of campuses around the country, showing how
they work to advance the cause of radical Islam and to lead the
effort to stigmatize Israel. These profiles are compiled in our new
booklet, "The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network." To
read the introduction, click here, "The MSA at UCLA," click here, "The MSA at Berkeley, click here, "The MSU at UC Irvine," click here, "The MSA at Brown," click here, "The MSA at Columbia," click here, and "The MSA at Michigan State," click here, "The MSA at Ohio State," click here, and "The MSA at Penn State," click here. – The Editors
One
of six community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system,
Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a small, two-year school that offers associate’s
degrees in a number of academic fields. Of the 17 undergraduate campuses in the
CUNY system, QCC ranks near the top in terms of Muslim student enrollment.
In
March 2003, QCC’s Muslim Students Association sponsored a closed meeting on the
Queensborough campus. The event was secretly infiltrated and monitored by WorldNetDaily journalist Aaron Klein,
who afterward reported on what he had observed there. According to Klein, the
MSA QCC event featured a presentation by American-born Abu Yousuf (age 20) and Pakistani-born
Muhammad Faheed (age 23), both of whom were U.S. leaders of Al-Muhajiroun,91
an
international Islamic fundamentalist organization (closely allied to Osama bin
Laden and al-Qaeda) whose overriding aim was to restore and expand, by means of
violent jihad, a Muslim Caliphate (empire)
that would operate according to the principles of Sharia,
or Islamic law.
Yousuf,
who spoke first, began by saying in Arabic: “With thanks to Allah we are here.
I testify that there is no God but Allah ... May Allah grant that I speak only
the truth.” He then switched to English, and charged that America’s 2003 invasion
of Iraq was part of a well-orchestrated “Christian crusade to rid the world of
Islam”; was rooted in the West’s lust for oil and for dominance over Muslim
nations; and would undoubtedly be followed by further U.S. attacks against Arab
countries. He accused American soldiers of seeking to “starve, rape and murder
our brothers and sisters.”
When
Faheed stepped to the podium next, he declared that Christians and Jews were
conspiring against Islam, and told his listeners that “we must not recognize
any government authority, or any authority at all besides Allah.” “We are not
Americans,” he shouted. “We are Muslims. The U.S. is going to deport and attack
us! It is us vs. them! Truth against falsehood! The colonizers and masters
against the oppressed, and we will burn down the master’s house! … The only
relationship you should have with America is to topple it!”
Repudiating
unequivocally the U.S. Constitution and Western secular governments, Faheed
declared: “Eventually there will be a Muslim in the White House dictating the
laws of Shariah.” Vowing that the U.S.-led war in Iraq
would soon be “felt in America,” Faheed
advised his Muslim listeners to prepare themselves for a violent battle against
the American people.” “The so-called terrorists are the only people who truly fear
Allah,” said Faheed. “… We must join with these organizations. They are the
only worthy causes, and the mighty superpower only fears them.”
Stating
that the U.S. is “not
strong,” Faheed said: “Vietnam,
they Americans lost. Somalia,
they ran away from. America
hasn’t won anything since World War II. We can defeat America.”92
NOTES:
91
http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/2007/fall/1.html
92
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6240
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31571
Ibid.