{"id":412,"date":"2011-06-07T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-06-07T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:48:11","slug":"frank-gaffney-in-the-washington-times-american-mosques-jihad%e2%80%99s-incubators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingsharia.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Frank Gaffney in The Washington Times: American Mosques, Jihad\u2019s Incubators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How\u2019s this for a wake-up call: America\u2019s most cherished civil liberties and the Constitution that enshrines them are actually enabling Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other Islamists who have the declared mission of destroying our freedoms and government \u201cfrom within\u2026by [our] hands.\u201d\u00a0 Specifically, our enemies are using our tolerance of religion to create an infrastructure of mosques here that incubate the Islamic holy war called jihad.<\/p>\n

If this revelation is not exactly news to those who are serious students of the Brotherhood\u2019s decades-long, stealthy \u201ccivilization jihad\u201d in this country (for more, see the best-selling \u201cTeam B II Report\u201d published late last year by the Center for Security Policy: Shariah: The Threat to America<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), it will almost certainly come as a shock to the average American. Yet, the phenomenon of our rights being used to pursue our destruction has become undeniable \u2013 particularly now, thanks to an assiduously researched, peer-reviewed study published on June 6th by the highly respected journal, Middle East Quarterly<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u201cShari\u2019a and Violence in American Mosques<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u201d this paper describes an ominous jihadist footprint being put into place across the nation. \u00a0It is made up of ostensibly religious institutions, entities that, therefore, enjoy constitutional protection.\u00a0 But, according to the data examined by this study, most mosques in the United States are actually engaged in \u2013 or at least supportive of \u2013 a totalitarian, seditious agenda they call shariah.\u00a0 Its express purpose is undermining and ultimately forcibly replacing the U.S. government and its founding documents.\u00a0 In their place would be a \u201ccaliph,\u201d governing in accordance with shariah\u2019s political-military-legal code.To be sure, some American mosques are not part of the jihadist enterprise.\u00a0 And most Muslims in the United States, like most adherents of other faiths, are not regular attendees at their places of worship.<\/p>\n

Still, according to this study\u2019s two formidable authors \u2013 my colleague (and fellow Big Peace contributor), David Yerushalmi<\/strong><\/a>, one of the nation\u2019s foremost non-Muslim experts on the totalitarian Islamic doctrine known as shariah, and a highly respected Israeli academic and expert on Islam and Arabic culture, Dr. Mordechai Kedar<\/strong> \u2013 on-site investigations of a random but representative sample of American mosques in fourteen states and the District of Columbia produced chilling insights into the threat posed by many such institutions.<\/p>\n

For the purpose of their analysis, the authors examined data collected by surveyors who \u201cwere asked to observe and record selected behaviors deemed to be shariah-adherent. These behaviors were selected precisely because they constitute observable and measurable practices of an orthodox form of Islam, as opposed to internalized, non-observable articles of faith.\u201d\u00a0 Such behaviors included, among other readily discernible indicators: \u201ca) women wearing the hijab (head covering) or niqab (full-length shiftcovering the entire female form except for the eyes); b) gender segregation during mosque prayers; and c) enforcement of straight prayer lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the purpose of their study, the authors evaluated support for jihad by considering the presence in mosque bookstores, libraries and among recommended materials \u00a0\u201cliterature encouraging worshipers to engage in terrorist activity, to provide financial support to jihadists, and to promote the establishment of a caliphate in the United States. \u00a0These materials also explicitly praised actsof terror against the West; praised symbols or role models of violent jihad; promoted the use of force, terror, war, and violence to implement the shariah; emphasized the inferiority of non-Muslim life; promoted hatred and intolerance toward non-Muslims or notional Muslims; and endorsed inflammatory materialswith anti-U.S. view.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employing this methodology, Mr. Yerushalmi and Dr. Kedar found that:<\/p>\n