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    sponsoring terrorism, or actually taking control.65

    Islamic fundamentalists have poured money into America's

    black communities in an effort that has brought more than a million

    U.S. African Americans over to the one true faith.66    While  most  of

    these converts remain peaceful, Al-Fuqra, a predominantly African-

    American Islamic group under the leadership of Pakistani Sheikh

    Mubarak Ali Jilani Hashemi, has declared a jihad in North America,

    and, according to law enforcement agencies, has been involved in

    bombings, murders and other forms of bloodshed in Colorado,

    Arizona, Pennsylvania and Canada.  It has been reported that Al-Fuqra

    also had a hand in the 1993 effort to blow up New York's United

    Nations building, the city's FBI headquarters, and its Holland and

    Lincoln Tunnels.67

    When the Iranians declared a death-sentence on British author

    Salman Rushdie, black American imams everywhere from Brooklyn to

    Los Angeles enthusiastically supported the move.  (So did the Moslem

    head of UCLA's Middle Eastern Studies Department.)  Even a loyal

    African-American Gulf War veteran, won over to Allah in 1991, stated

    after his change in faith that "soon it [Islam] will take over all of

    America, then the world."68

    The U.S. African-American community is only a beachhead.

    Islamic forces have been attempting to gain control of U.S. media

    outlets in the hope of using them as propaganda tools for the Moslem

    point of view.  The Saudis and America's Christian fundamentalists

    battled in the early '90s for the right to purchase America's second

    largest wire service, UPI.  Ultimately, the Arabs won.  In addition,

    Amal Adam, the former head of Saudi Arabia's equivalent of the CIA,

    was the primary backer of a British-based firm called Capcom, whose

    chief officers were the heads of TCI (Telecommunications

    Incorporated), America's largest player in the cable television game.  In

    1993, TCI made headlines when it came within a hair's breadth of

    merging with Bell/Atlantic.  Had the effort succeeded, it would have

    formed what financial analysts universally heralded as one of the

      eeping elections, manipulating generals, funding insurrections,

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