{"id":149,"date":"2011-06-04T02:49:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-06-04T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:55:14","slug":"middle-east-quarterly-releases-results-of-multi-year-survey-of-american-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Quarterly Releases Results of Multi-Year Survey of American Mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its Summer 2011 edition, <strong>Middle East Quarterly<\/strong> published a groundbreaking report, &#8220;<strong>Shari\u2019a and Violence in American Mosques<\/strong>,&#8221; by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The survey, on which the report was based, found that 51% of US mosques had texts that either advocated the use of violence in the pursuit of a Shari&#8217;a-based political order or advocated violent jihad outright; another 30% had texts that were moderately supportive of violence. 19% had no violent texts at all.<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8211; culled from years of research, examining scores of mosques in the United States&#8211;is a rare opportunity for academics, policymakers, and the American public to <strong>understand the phenomenon <\/strong>known as jihadist terrorism and gauge the depth of support for it in the nation&#8217;s varied Muslim communities.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report is the product of the multi-year <strong>Mapping Shari&#8217;a Project<\/strong>. This website, <strong>Mappingsharia.com<\/strong>,  is a guide for further research and, specifically, an elaboration of the  Islamic texts used to gauge support for violent jihad in American  mosques.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the report note that, prior to this survey, &#8220;few empirical studies that attempt to measure the relationship between specific variables and support for terrorism.&#8221; <strong>Shari\u2019a and Violence in American Mosques<\/strong> measures that relationship based on quantifiable metrics: both behavioral and political aspects of worship and the types of text available or recommended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/meq\/\">To read the report in full, go to Middle East Quarterly<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its Summer 2011 edition, Middle East Quarterly published a groundbreaking report, &#8220;Shari\u2019a and Violence in American Mosques,&#8221; by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi. The survey, on which the report was based, found that 51% of US mosques had texts that either advocated the use of violence in the pursuit of a Shari&#8217;a-based political order [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}