• Sponsored a March 2003 speaking engagement for two U.S. leaders of the Islamist organization Al-Muhajiroun

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. QCC aims to prepare students to attend four-year colleges, chiefly in the CUNY system. Of the 17 undergraduate campuses in the CUNY system, QCC ranks in the top three -- along with Queens College and LaGuardia College -- in terms of Muslim student enrollment.

In March 2003, QCC's Muslim Students Association (MSA QCC) sponsored a closed meeting -- i.e., it was officially open only to Muslim students -- on the Queensborough campus. The event was secretly infiltrated and monitored by WorldNetDaily journalist Aaron Klein, who is Jewish; Klein thereafter reported on what he had observed there. The information that follows was supplied by Klein in his March 18, 2003 article, "Soda, pizza and the destruction of America."

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, 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 speaking 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." "America is hypocritical," added Yousef. "Now it says it must 'disarm' Saddam [Hussein], but they [Americans] armed him in the first place! And most of the crimes against Saddam's people were committed while America supported him and turned a blind eye to his atrocities."

Mr. Yousuf has been a frequent speaker at many New York-area colleges, and most of those engagements are arranged by the MSA.

When Mr. 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! … We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don't lobby Congress or protest because we don't recognize Congress! 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." He also demanded that his listeners reject the authority of secular Muslim states such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, "which have been bought out by America ... [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf gets $60 million a month to betray and arrest us [Muslims]."

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 [i.e., with proper devotion] fear Allah," said Faheed. "Since everyone fears the worldly things that Allah controls, they therefore fear these Islamic organizations [which have been labeled terrorist organizations]. 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."