And with good reason. The Brotherhood is dedicated, in its own words, to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within." "Controversy Surrounds Construction of Mosques Across U.S.," by Lauren Green for FOXNews.com, July 2 (thanks to all who sent this in):
They're separated by thousands of miles, but they share a common controversy: Mosques.Murfreesboro, Tenn., has joined a growing list of midsized towns in the U.S. that are embroiled in conflicts over proposed mosques being built or bought in their neighborhoods.
Including Murfreesboro, residents have risen up against mosques in two other Tennessee towns; in Staten Island, N.Y.; Sheboygan County, Wis.; and the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, as well as the proposed mosque and Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero, which has garnered some of the most heated battles.
A new Quinnipiac Poll shows that well over half of New Yorkers - 52 percent oppose building a mosque near the 9/11 site. Only 31 percent support it.
Among ethnic groups, Hispanics show the greatest opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, 60 to 19 percent.
Among religious groups, Jews and white Catholics expressed the greatest opposition, both at 66 percent.
Those who support building the mosques say the opposition comes from growing Islamophobia, racism and ignorance.
Those who oppose adamantly deny that bigotry is involved.
In Murfreesboro, Republican congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik says she's not against the building of a mosque, but she does oppose the construction of an Islamic cultural center, which she says would be an Islamic training facility. "This has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with a radical agenda," she says.
But in Staten Island, fears that a mosque will become a breeding ground for homegrown terror are rooted in reports about who's financing the deal.
Residents of the heavily Catholic neighborhood are in an uproar over a Muslim group's plans to buy a shuttered convent and convert it into a Mosque. Besides concerns about increased traffic and little parking, there are disturbing reports surrounding the organization, the Muslim America Society, which is funding the purchase.
According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, MAS has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a 100-year-old movement that is widely regarded as one of the most influential Islamic fundamentalist groups in the world. Its stated agenda has been to spread Islam and Shariah law throughout the West. Some of its members also reportedly created Hamas.
"The Muslim American Society was created in the early 1990s as the de facto arm of the Muslim Brotherhood," says Steve Emerson, IPT's executive director.
He says the MAS and Muslim Brotherhood claim to oppose terrorism, but "behind closed doors they support terrorism and have defended various terrorists that have been convicted in the United States since 9/11."
But Ibrahim Ramey, the human and civil rights director for MAS Freedom, adamantly denies any connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas or terrorism.
"There are people who don't like Muslims and don't like Muslims in their neighborhood who have been vociferously and consistently trying to link MAS with foreign organizations and movements, but that simply isn't true," Ramey says.
"We are not agents of Hamas nor do we answer to them, nor do we provide money for them, nor are we part of any conflict that they have with the U.S. Government, or any authorities in the United States."
Note the careful and evasive wording. There doesn't seem to be any explicit denial of a link to the Brotherhood, at least in Ramey's words as reported here. And no one was charging that he "answers" to Hamas.
Emerson says his group has documentation linking MAS with the Muslim Brotherhood. He also says MAS has been on a spending spree in the last two years, either buying property to establish mosques, as in Staten Island, or taking over existing mosques, like the huge Dal al-Hidrah in Northern Virginia and the very prominent Islamic Society of Boston in Massachusetts."The way to gain influence among the Muslim community is to control the mosques," Emerson says. "The way to control what people think in the Muslim community is to have the right imam preach the right message. So by acquiring these mosques the Muslim American Society gets the right to appoint the imam and distribute the message they believe is necessary to spread Islam around the world."...
One of the groups that come up often when studying terrorism, counter-terrorism and like subjects is the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a group found in Egypt and is considered by the government there to be terrorists, though the group denies that it has any ties to terrorism or acts of terrorism.
Other groups known to be involved in terrorism and acts of terror are believed to be linked to the brotherhood in Egypt. And alleged members of the brotherhood have been arrested and charged with acts of terror.
"opponents plan march against Murfreesboro mosque" - Nashville "Tennessean":
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100703/NEWS01/7030339/Opponents+plan+march+against+Murfreesboro+mosque
Tennessee is getting serious, and it's high-time.
in Arabic the word mosque is 'masjid' and its meaning is, "place of battle". Simple enough.
In Murfreesboro, Republican congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik says she's not against the building of a mosque, but she does oppose the construction of an Islamic cultural center...
She thinks a 'cultural center' might be used for ...'Islamic training'...Of course Mahoundians would never use a mosque for such purposes...
Then she says...
"This has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with a radical agenda,".
We can see that this nice RINO lady has looked deeply into the subject...Read the Quran and listened to all the fine Islamic speeches ala Adjem Chaudary etc...in order to come to these profound conclusions...'Religions' got nothing to do with it...It's that pesky 'radical agenda' that's the problem...I wonder if Lou could identify for us, just what is this 'radical agenda', and how they justify it?
Oh never mind, it's obvious she has not looked 'that' deeply...
Be careful at any protests in which you're involved:
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2010/06/read-hereabout-boeing-guards-who-somehow-let-twelve-or-was-it-fourteen-handguns-be-stolen-from-a-storage-locker-at-the-he.html
considering the past history of what goes on in Mosques, people should step up and forbid them to be built...
Nothing but trouble comes from a Mosque.
Mosques are the mechanism by which Islam spreads...'If you build it they will come'...and come ...and come...
I am in favor of stopping all mosque building and close the rest, forcing the Mahoundians into cultural centers, that are still mosques, but the insulting intrusion of obvious victory and phallic symbols (minarets), are lessened, which is a blow to Islamic supremacy...
Having spent much time over the past 3 years studying the qu'ran and hadith, and reading somewhere between 40 -45 books on Islam, including all of Mr Spencers, all of Dr Mark Gabriel's, all of Brigette Gabriels, The Muslim Mafia, etc.. In my opinion this is NOT just physical and political warfare, its also Spiritual Warfare, the Christians and Jews against the antichrist!
Thats why I've started the group Surround Them with Prayer. Our goal is to surround every mosque and muslim center with Prayer. To Pray that they will stop following their pedaphile false prophet, and false God and open their hearts to the ONLY True God!
Islam is a major crisis and we MUST fight it on ALL fronts, Spiritualy, Education, Law Enforcement, and when needed with our Military. Thats why anytime I'm invited to speak anywhere after I do my best to educate, I try to establish Prayer Groups that are commited to Pray daily to change the muslims heart, and lead them to the one and only True God!
Of course, one might do a little forensic accounting and see who holds the notes on these properties. Pretty soon, I bet, the Islamic Development Bank (ISB) shows up. In Boston, not only do they hold the sham financing items but the deed to the property is held in Kuwait - not the city's registry of deeds - a surrundering of sovereignty to another government.
In these cases: look for the details.
Every easement of local ordinances becomes a precedent.
While you're thinking of this, ask; Do these mosques line-up with the actual number of Muslims in your community?
Then, with that answer, go a step further; How many will be converted, your children, neighbors and their children, to make the shrines fill up?
Then think of how many political refugees; Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan (it doesn't matter what side they were on - ask a UN guru) will be 'placed' in your community.
Try to oppose it and you have the UN, the UN human Rights Commission, ACLU, CAIR all waging LAWFARE upon the town in which the Cleavers raised Beaver.
Ask a Swede, a Dane, someone from Holland, the pastor in Totemham on the Bilge.
"Those who support building the mosques say the opposition comes from growing Islamophobia, racism and ignorance."
The proverbial pot calling the kettle black.
I think our government has been replaced; hence, the ground zero mosque. For those of us who are islamoloathic I suppose the only recourse to the mosques is to 'burn them out', everywhere, and completely, again and again, until we bankrupt the Saudis building fund. Take that , Akmet. You can control
our sell-out politicians, but you can't control the unrest of an aroused American people. The time to excise this cancer is at hand.
Kiss a Hispanic!
Very interesting comment, Dan...What a creative idea...and, ya know..might be quite effective.
I wonder just what might happen, should many mosques be surrounded by the prayers of God's people? "...surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses..." just came to my mind...I just wonder.
Would it be necessary for people to form a ring physically around a mosque for prayer? Or can it be done by many hearts in many places, with bowed hearts praying collectively?
Hmmmmmm.
"We are not agents of Hamas nor do we answer to them, nor do we provide money for them, nor are we part of any conflict that they have with the U.S. Government, or any authorities in the United States."
"Note the careful and evasive wording. There doesn't seem to be any explicit denial of a link to the Brotherhood, at least in Ramey's words as reported here. And no one was charging that he "answers" to Hamas."
I think it rather odd and see that "other careful wording" exists which has not been commented upon.
At least in this instance we should take note of how our government is referred to by the MAS spokesman. When I speak about our country's government I say the "government" not the U.S. Government, nor the "authorities in the United States." These phrases place MAS as outsiders of the government, as we know they are, and it shows an attitude of defiance and lack of assimilation, which we also know to be true because of the constant desire to replace our laws with Sharia.
Other phrases showing the separation from our culture and history and republic rule of law are most likely also discernable in other statements of the Muslim community in our country. A study of such would be illuminating! How can one assimilate as they claim when their words continue to show separation instead of drawing nearer?
Dan Cox
your idea about having prayer groups focusing in on the mosques, is a good one.
I'd call the groups 'Jericho Groups', bearing in mind of course what is said in Ephesians 6 - "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places". The powerful image of the impregnable walls of Jericho falling down flat without even having been physically touched, is an image of what we are praying will happen in the psychological and *spiritual* dimension. Get your aspiring intercessors to read Joshua 6: 1- 16 side by side with Ephesians 6: 10-18.
The nonreligious members of this forum should observe that Dan is very far from proposing that prayer be the *only* method of response to Sharia Creep and the combat Jihad.
He mentioned the fields of Education, Law Enforcement, and the Military, before mentioning prayer.
Pulsar
you said -
"Nothing but trouble comes from a Mosque."
True dat.
Here are two current examples, which were both featured just now at the New English Review blog
one from Swaziland, where the Muslims have built a mosque right opposite the main Catholic cathedral, and are proceeding to make trouble in many and varying ways:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/28339
[original links =
http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=14462
'Noisy mosque irritates Manzini'
http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=18107
'Lady attacked in Mosque is dead'.
and the other from Kolkata in India,
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/28346
Sunday, 4 July 2010
'Islamists trying to construct mosque in a Hindu area in Kolkata'
where Muslims are pulling a stunt that looks very much like what they are doing in Murfreesboro - planking down a great big mosque right in the middle of a majority NON-Muslim area, whose inhabitants are responding much as the good citizens of Murfreesboro, though with even less hope of succeeding.
Original Indian source link:
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=352&page=16
Now, I think that the good citizens of Murfreesboro and the 'two other Tennessee towns', and of Staten Island, and those protesting the 9/11 mosque, might find those news stories from India and from Swaziland, Africa, to be most interesting, and to provide a great incentive to keep up with the resistance.
There is, too, this 'Jerusalem Post' article, by Seth J Frantzman, on what can only be called the aggressive siting of mosques:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710820237&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Apr 29, 2009 20:29 | Updated Apr 30, 2009 18:09
"More than a coincidence: Minarets, geography and power".
Just in case the link has lapsed, or lapses in future, I will cite the most pertinent passages:
"The building of new mosques has become an issue throughout European cities, from Munich to London. In some places, such as Italy, Switzerland and Greece, governments have struggled to prevent their erection.
"Yet while there is controversy over their very construction, there is usually very little questioning about **why they are built where they are built** {my emphasis - dda}.
"A survey of historical placement of mosques in important cities and newly conquered Muslim lands, as well as a survey of the placement of mosques in diverse neighborhoods, shows that **their placement is anything but random and that strikingly often they are built next to the houses of prayer or the neighborhoods of non-Muslims** {my emphasis - dda}."
Frantzman observes:
"Even in more obscure locations, the building of minarets has served as an expression of power and influence.
"The center of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem has long been the Hurva Synagogue which was constructed and reconstructed several times between 1700 and the present. **But attached to this great synagogue is a mosque whose minaret is intentionally taller than the Hurva's dome** {my emphasis - dda}
.
"The America Colony Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah has a mosque next door to it.
"The Western Wall of Jerusalem has a mosque perched atop its northern end.
"The Mount of Olives Jewish graveyard has a mosque which adjoins it.
"Jeremiah's Grotto in east Jerusalem, which was for a long time a pilgrimage site, now obscured by the east Jerusalem central bus station, also has a mosque at its entrance.
"The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem **has a large mosque just across from it on Manger Square, constructed in a town which at the time was 80 percent Christian** {my emphasis - dda}.
"A controversy over Muslim attempts to build a mosque next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth led to riots in 2002.
"In each of these cases the mosques were built after the non-Muslim building was constructed.
"The building of mosques is not always an expression of power, but historically and today in mixed communities mosques are constructed with a view toward the non-Muslim other.
"This author is even familiar with a family of Palestinian communists in the West Bank where a mosque was, not coincidentally, constructed next door to their house.
"It becomes blatantly obvious in a community like Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, where almost every other mosque is situated next to a Christian building or former holy site."...
Just as, you will note, that noisily aggressive and local-traffic-regs-flouting Mosque in Manzini in Swaziland, built right opposite the Catholic cathedral.
Note the careful and evasive wording.
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Yes—and note there is no condemnation of Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood here, nor of their aims and goals.