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From today's bulletin from Jihad Watch.
In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the "extremist ideology."
Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom's 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project's 2008 study.
Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America
were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity
ultimately to impose Islamic rule.
And in the summer of 2011 came another study showing that only 19% of mosques in U.S. don't teach jihad violence and/or Islamic supremacism.
And now here is more on the latter study:
Study Shows U.S. Mosques Repositories of Sharia, Jihad, and Muslim Brotherhood Literature and Preachers
Peer-reviewed study most extensive empirical examination of U.S. mosques to date
December 12, 2011 – New York, New York: A leading international
peer-reviewed journal specializing in the empirical study of terrorism
has published a study that found that 80% of U.S. mosques provide their
worshippers with jihad-style literature promoting the use of violence
against non-believers and that the imams in those mosques expressly
promote that literature.
The study also found that when a mosque imam or its worshippers were
“sharia-adherent,” as measured by certain behaviors in conformity with
Islamic law, the mosque was more likely to provide this violent
literature and the imam was more likely to promote it.
The abstract for the study summarizes the research findings:
A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was
conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma
calling for violence against non-believers. Of the 100 mosques surveyed,
51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had
texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent
texts at all. Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely
to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their
non-Sharia-adherent counterparts. In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam
recommended studying violence-positive texts. The leadership at
Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper
study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent
mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to
promote violent jihad. The leadership of mosques that featured
violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who
were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques
that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.
The study was published in December 2011 by Perspectives on
Terrorism, a scholarly international journal of the Terrorism Research
Initiative (TRI), a global initiative that seeks to support the
international community of terrorism researchers and scholars through
the facilitation of collaborative projects and cooperative initiatives.
TRI was established in 2007 by scholars from several disciplines in
order to provide the global research community with a common tool than
can empower them and extend the impact of each participant's research
activities.
The mosque study had previously been published by the Middle East
Quarterly in September 2011, an academic peer-reviewed journal which
specializes on Middle East regional issues. Because of the
ground-breaking nature of the study, which brings a rigorous empirical
methodology to the question of home-grown jihadists, MEQ granted
permission to Perspectives on Terrorism to publish a more extensive
analysis of the study’s conception, methodology, and results.
The study’s authors, Professor Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University
in Israel and David Yerushalmi, who serves as general counsel to the
Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., have both published
widely on terrorism, Islamic law and its underlying doctrines of jihad
and violence against unbelievers.
The study may be accessed here at the Mapping Sharia website.
The study may be accessed here at MEQ.
The study may be accessed here at Perspectives on Terrorism.
Posted by Robert on December 11, 2011 8:32 PM
This is sickening.
ReplyDeleteThis is what the mainstream news media ISN'T telling you.
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