THE INCREASING CONFIDENCE OF EXTREMISTS - AT 9:11 A.M. ET:  After the exploits of Major Hasan at Fort Hood, and the bitterly resented decision to try the mastermind of 9-11 in an ordinary court in New York, you'd think the jihadist crowd would lie low for a while.  But, of course, it's exactly the opposite.  They sense weakness in the administration, and they will exploit it, especially on our college campuses, where they're often more than welcome.  From the New York Post:

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.

Not a chance of that. 

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.

Can you imagine what would happen to any student who got up and announced, "I want to kill all the Muslims"?

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.

I love it when colleges invoke the Constitution to protect extremists.  They rarely refer to it when the rights of others are involved. 

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.

I'd imagine that either there was no response, or the Republicans were chided for their cultural insensitivity.  It wasn't long ago that a dean at Pace College, five blocks from Ground Zero, threatened to report a group of students to the police for "hate speech" for daring to show the film "Obsession," which exposes Islamic extremism.

In many parts of the world - in Afghanistan, in Iran, in Western Europe, even in parts of Latin America, jihadists are asserting themselves, sensing that the man in the White House will do nothing but "engage" them.

November 20, 2009