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August 12, 2012A Mosque Is Not Like a Church or a SynagogueByJanet Levy

The markedproliferationof mosques in the U.S. since 9/11 should raise a red

flag for Americans. Recent controversies surrounding mega-

mosque construction projects countrywide -- many in locations with almost no

Muslims to speak of -- have grave implications for the future of these targeted

communities and areas beyond.

Accelerated mosque-building -- in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Staten Island,

Brooklyn, and Ground Zero, New York; and Santa Clara and Temecula,California, to name a few -- carries significance beyond the mere construction of

a collection of Muslim houses of worship. It represents yet another orchestrated

effort to oust traditional American values and replace them with Islamic

practices, laws, and beliefs.

Although most U.S. mosques heretofore have been built without resistance, the

newly attendant controversies present speciously polarized views between, on the

one hand, ostensibly welcoming, tolerant, multi-culti progressives who deny any

possible radical agenda despite substantial evidence to the contrary in existing

mosques and, on the other hand, so-called fearful, Islamophobic, ignorant bigotsunwilling to embrace diversity. Mainstream media's predominant point of view

is that any opposition to mosque-building represents a blatant unwillingness to

integrate Muslims into American communities. This view disallows the

possibility that such objections represent appropriate, reasoned responses to an

attempt to destroy America from within and supplant its culture with a

supremacist, totalitarian, and misogynistic ideology.

Islamic terrorism expert Steven Emerson, executive director of the Investigative

Project for Terrorism, attributes the spate of mosque-building and land

acquisition to the Muslim American Society (MAS), an arm of the MuslimBrotherhood. Emerson contends that the MAS has been actively buying up

property and establishing mosques to control the appointment of imams who

"distribute the message they believe is necessary to spread Islam around the

world."

It should be noted that a mosque is totally unlike a church or a synagogue,

entities that serve their communities under the law of the land and are both
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empowered and restrained under the First Amendment of the

Constitution. Under the Establishment Clause of that amendment, the

government is prohibited from establishing a state religion or conferring

preferential treatment on one religion over another. Although the government

may not interfere with religious beliefs and opinions, the proscription of religious

practices is permissible, as in the examples of polygamy and human sacrifice.

In the U.S. and in other Western countries, Christians and Jews freely and

critically choose their brand of theology from a multitude of ecclesiastic offerings

and determine their individual levels of religious observance or none at all. The

exercise of faith and the observance of faith-related practices occur across a

broad spectrum of individual behaviors based solely on personal choice.

In Muslim countries, no separation exists between mosque and state. Islamic

doctrine or sharia controls all aspects of a person's existence, from the correct

way to use the toilet to permissible forms of lying, or taquiya. For Muslims,

Mohammed is the perfect man, whose every example must be emulated, even

though by Western Judeo-Christian standards he was a mass murderer,

pedophile, rapist, torturer, and looter. Furthermore, Islamic doctrine is

immutable, and any criticism of the traditions and practices of Mohammed is

considered apostasy, which is punishable by death.

No free individual will exists or is allowed when it comes to practices and

observances. Sharia must be strictly followed. A mosque is a symbol of this

ultimate authority and serves the function of organizing every aspect of life in a

Muslim community.

Mosques are modeled after the first mosque established by Mohammed in

Medina, which was a seat of government, a command center, a court, a school,

and a military training center and depot for arms. Mosque leaders today issue

religious decrees, enforce Islamic doctrine, monitor conduct, provide training,

punish transgressions, and command actions, including the requirement to

conduct jihad.

In the "Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group

in North America," published in 1991 and discovered in a 2004 FBI raid of a

house in Northern Virginia, the Muslim Brotherhood explains historical stages of

Islamic activism for "civilizational jihad." This usurpation of American Judeo-Christian and Western liberal social, political, and religious values by Islam was

defined in the document which gave the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in

America as "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western

civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and

the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and G-d's religion is made

victorious over all other religions."
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The Explanatory Memorandumgoes on to describe the role of the mosque orIslamic center as being identical to the Medina mosque constructed by

Mohammed, with its status as a military base and a provider of jihadist

training.

In essence, the mosque or Islamic center building operates in the service ofestablishing an authoritative physical presence for a strategic base of

operations. Rather than the benign construction of a house of worship, the

building of a mosque represents one in a series of beachheads in the

interconnected network of bases to teach the skills of jihad, advance Islam, and

impose sharia in due time.

The radical nature of U.S. mosques was confirmed in 2005 by a study conducted

by Freedom House, "Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American

Mosques," in which it was determined that 80% of American mosques

encouraged Muslims to work for the establishment of the Islamic state and

espoused hatred and intolerance toward non-Muslims.

Beyond the Freedom House study and further bolstering the contention that the

mosque is an institution of concern for Americans is the incidence and

prevalence of mosques that have harbored and trained terrorists as well as raised

money for terrorist activities. One such example, the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in

northern Virginia, is referred to as a "terror mill" and front for Hamas

operatives.

The fact that it has been investigated for its financing and aid of terrorists is not

an unusual profile of activities for U.S. mosques. Established in 1982 with Saudifunding, the Dar al-Hijrah mosque is one of the largest and most influential

mosques in the country. Its leaders have routinely given militant sermons

condoning the use of violence and criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Imams preaching at the mosque have included Mohammed al-Hanooti, an

unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and

Anwar Awlaki, a senior al-Qaeda operative who was linked to three 9/11

hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hassan, and the Underwear

Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The mosque has hosted Muslims, including Sam Al-Arian, who have beenaccused and convicted of supporting the terrorist group Hamas. Astonishingly,

the Dar al-Hijrah mosque is still in operation, a privilege that would unlikely be

extended to a church or synagogue under similar circumstances.

According to former FBI agent and expert on Islam John Guandolo, we have

over 2,000 so-called Islamic centers across the U.S. modeled after the

first mosque in Medina. These Islamic centers can be likened to military
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command centers that imbue jihad ideology and serve as processing centers for

jihadist training, Guandolo says.

In view of the stated intent and the supporting ideology of mosque-proliferation,

we would be well-advised to heed the words of former Muslim and professor of

sharia law Sam Solomon, who declares, "We must never forget that Islam is anall-encompassing ideological system, and as such wherever there is a Muslim

community there will be sharia, and wherever there is sharia, there is

Islamization of the territory and ultimately the nation."

Rather than allowing the building of more mega-mosques in the United States,

we should halt existing projects and seriously consider shutting down existing

mosques to prevent the proliferation of an ideology that has publicly pledged to

destroy America.

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