[...]The long arm of the Saudi/Wahhabi conspiracy, supported by American neofascists and leftists, had reached me in Long Island. Rather than bring about the confrontation these fanatics desired, I left the mosque without speaking. Many small children were present, and I would not have risked an uproar. Later I found out that as soon as I was gone, a large crowd of scowling men in Taliban-style beards also departed the scene - after one of them had delivered a harangue denouncing me as a Communist, of all things. They obviously had not come to hear the children sing praises of the Prophet.

After further investigation of this incident, I concluded that it was a deliberate setup. If the Wahhabi thugs objected to my presence, they had many weeks, since it was announced, to bring it up with the mosque leadership. They did not do so. Rather, it is clear they hoped for the worst.[...]