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My wife was a business student at Cal State Sacramento in 1989, while I was a journalism student there, and a business minor. I wrote for the Sac State Hornet. My wife is a Malay moslem, but she doesn't remember the terrorstani. At the time, I discovered to my considerable amazement, that some moslems there had the use of a large room on the second floor of the Student Union for the purpose of holding Islamic religious services. No other religious groups were allowed to do such a thing. (The University President, a Mr. Gerth, happened to be friends with some moslem cabinet members of the Malaysian government, including the then Foreign Minister, whose daughter was my girl friend's roommate). It was kept quiet.

There were lots of moslems on campus back then, including a large number of Palestinians, not to mention Lebanese and others.

What the Palestinians were doing there, I never did figure out. The University made some kind of arrangements . . .

The Imam Hamdani mentioned in the article is of Kurdish ancestry. He performed a marriage ceremony for my wife and I. I have found him to be a good man, and a straight shooter. He has for years followed a policy of strict independence from other Islamic organizations, something I'm sure he is glad of now. Back in the mid 90's he was a Rush fan, and might still be.

One of the other mosques in Sac held two fund raisers for the Number Two man in Al-Queda in the late '90's. Later, they admitted it to the media, but claimed they didn't know who he was, or where the money was headed. You know now how it works . . . moslem charities. Want to buy some swamp land in Arabee? They quite recently had a CAIR spokesman out to speak to the faithful. CAIR is afiliated with Hamas per the FBI, basically their PR arm. This mosque is loaded with Arabs from Egypt and Saudi. They have the gaul to fly an American flag out front. I call that camoflage.

I once wrote a two part article for their magazine on Malaysia. They published the first part on economics and growth, but the second part on the social scene there was killed. It mentioned such things as moslem women wearing mini skirts, legalized gambling, including Nevada style casinos, nude beaches, adult beverages, night clubs, Christmas as a national holiday, and other aspects of tolerance and live and let live. Oh, yes, mostly moslem Malaysia does indeed have nude beaches. No big deal. One of the killees of my story was an Arab prof at Sac State. Go figure. Of course, he didn't know about the Al-Queda connection, either, or so . . . even though he's from Egypt.

One night my wife and I attended a speaker's presentation on Malaysia. The white American moslem leftist would not call on me when I raised my hand to ask questions or make comments. His discussion was mostly about the Anwar Ibrahim affair. I had a lot to contribute on the matter, as my wife's father worked in the Prime Minister's office, and had also worked for Anwar, now in prison. (Suffice it to say the Malaysian government had 10 times as much on Anwar as they tried him for). The group did not want to hear it. I was finally allowed to speak, but this lead to outbursts of ranting, raving expressions of hatred and malice. I mean, standing up, red faced screaming. We left. The group is mostly middle eastern, especially Arabs. Malaysia is the second oldest democracy in Asia, following the form of their British mentors. As a moslem democracy, it far outdistances Turkey.

But, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want any of you to think I have a bad attitude. They say it's a religion of peace.

Thanks for your personal recollections. Very interesting, indeed.

Bumpity Bump! Keep spreading the word.

I discovered to my considerable amazement, that some moslems there had the use of a large room on the second floor of the Student Union for the purpose of holding Islamic religious services. No other religious groups were allowed to do such a thing.

As of last semester they had at least one Christian group meeting in the Student Union.

Thanks. Fascinating commentary from you. Do you think there is any link between Yazid Sufaat and the anthrax attacks? Also I've wondered if the explosives he purchased through his pharma company, about 4 tonnes of which never were recovered, were used in Bali? From a distance and not ever being there, I can't really tell how closely linked the Malaysian, Philippine and Indonesian extremist groups really can be. I've been surprised by the evident level of cooperation. The terrorists are very educated, relative to their normal peers and well off. Its like the SLA/Patty Hearst types of the muslim world.

EXCELLENT POST there, lostlegend. You gave a really good account.