Debbie Schlussel’s New York Post article today is on the hate-spewing, terror-supporting Islamic cleric chosen by the Democratic National Committee to lead the invocation at its winter meeting: An Ugly Invocation.

Apart from this article, the mainstream media have absolutely no interest in this story; but it really is shocking how deeply the Islamists have managed to insinuate themselves into the corridors of American power. In the video of this event, you can watch Democrat leaders bow their heads in pseudo-piety as Imam Al-Husainy prays for them to follow “The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom.”

February 6, 2007 — THE Democratic National Committee made a strange choice to deliver the invocation last Friday at its winter meeting: Husham al-Husainy - an extremist who has a long record of support for prominent Islamists at war with America and Israel.

Al-Husainy’s words before the Democrats - asking God to “help us stop … occupation and oppression” - were jarring enough, since he was likely referring to either American soldiers in Iraq or Jews in Israel.

But his past statements and activity make those words even more ominous.

Al-Husainy heads the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center mosque in Dearborn, Mich., one of the largest Shiite mosques in North America. He is an open admirer of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - under whose rule Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

During last summer’s Israel-Hezbollah war, al-Husainy led rallies in Dearborn in support of the Lebanese terrorist group. Protesters displayed swastikas as well as anti-American and anti-Semitic posters.

I attended one rally, at Dearborn’s Bint Jebail Cultural Center - named for the stronghold in south Lebanon from which Hezbollah rockets rained on Israel. Al-Husainy was among several who delivered hate-filled, anti-American rhetoric. He cheered as others called for the hastened destruction of the Jews.

Then there are his anti-Semitic, anti-American conspiracy theories. In one interview, he said: “Saddam … handed Iraq to the Coalition. I believe he is an agent of America … And, by the way, I don’t want to exclude the Zionists. I think some extremists from the Mossad came in and took a chance to have some revenge, because we don’t know who killed [Imam Mohammed Bakr] al-Hakim or Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.”