'How Islam Perfected Thanksgiving'

Funny, but I was always under the impression the Pilgrims had something to do with starting up Thanksgiving. But thanks to an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, tonight New York college students will get the real story.

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.

The MSA "definitely should not be funded by the taxpayers," Queens College Republicans Vice President Ryan James Girdusky told The Post.

"The MSA has shown itself to be an alleged possible breeding ground of anti-American jihad's thoughts," Girdusky wrote the CUNY school's president in a recent letter.

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.

"He said, 'When I get enough money, I'm going to do some pretty bad things . . . and he talked about getting a bomb," recalled Karl, who now supports de-funding MSA.

You still think it's a good idea to hold the 9/11 trials in New York? It's maggots like this who'll be having a field day for the cameras.

By the way, this Wahhaj who was a guest of Mayor Bloomberg's a couple of weeks ago. Nice to see he has connections in high places.

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.