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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: An ISIS Nest Grows in Boston

Sep 24, 2014 11:57 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic_Soc._of_Boston_3.jpgDenial, willful ignorance, wishful thinking: the hallmarks of our age. My latest in FrontPage:

Boston’s WCVB.com reported Monday that “the federal government is targeting Boston and two other American cities to shut down what they are calling the U.S.-Jihad pipeline to ISIS in an attempt to stop Americans from joining the terrorist organization.” Boston apparently made this elite list because Ahmad Abousamra, “an American college graduate from Boston, who has been on the run from the FBI for years, is suspected of joining ISIS and leveraging his computer skills to spread the Iraqi terror group’s propaganda on social media.” And so now Boston is reaping what it has sown for so many years.

The Islamic State has been linked to the Islamic Society of Boston. The Tsarnaev brothers, the Boston Marathon jihad mass murderers, went to mosque at the Islamic Society of Boston. So did other convicted jihad terrorists, Tarek Mehanna and Aafia Siddiqui. During all this, the FBI conducted “outreach” to the Islamic Society of Boston but never investigated it. Now they’re reaping the fruits of their politically correct willful ignorance.

Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino really, really wanted the Islamic Society of Boston to be well situated in the city. He gave the ISB an astonishing sweetheart deal on the land for the mosque. Menino, according to a 2008 Boston Phoenix exposé, “in a fit of multicultural ecumenicalism, approved the sale of city-owned land to the mosque for the bargain basement — and still controversial — price of $175,000, plus the promise of in-kind services, including upkeep of nearby parks. The predictable uproar that arose in the wake of not only selling land well below market rates, but also selling it to a religious institution in contravention of the supposed separation of church and state, was supposed to be muffled by making the complex available for community use. But oops — that never happened. The promised community facilities for non-congregant use still have not been built.”

Not only that, but although it was “originally intended to minister to an urban congregation of African-American Muslims, the mosque project was turned over by the city, with no fanfare and little notice, to the control of suburban-based Muslims of largely Saudi Arabian heritage: the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), which more recently became the Muslim American Society of Boston (MAS-Boston). Perhaps the city believed, incorrectly, that one Muslim community could easily step in for another. In fact, the two groups are quite different.”

The Muslim American Society is the principal name under which the Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States. According to a captured internal Muslim Brotherhood document, the Brotherhood’s “work in America is 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 the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

So Menino was instrumental in the construction of a Muslim Brotherhood mosque in Boston, which the Tsarnaevs attended. Were it not for Menino and so many others like him all over the country behaving as if Muslim Brotherhood ties were a matter of no consequence, it would perhaps not be so culturally unacceptable in America today to oppose jihad terror.

It has been so unacceptable for so long, however, that the Islamic Society of Boston mosque that the Tsarnaevs attended was never investigated, despite the fact that they were not the only jihad terrorists to frequent it. Aafia Siddiqui, a.k.a. “Lady al-Qaeda,” who was convicted of trying to murder American soldiers and may also have been plotting a jihad terror attack against an American city, was also a member, as was convicted jihad terror plotter Tarek Mehanna and Abousamra. The renowned Muslim Brotherhood sheikh, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has praised Hitler and called upon Muslims to finish his job of killing Jews, was a trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston and has addressed the mosque congregation during fundraisers. Another imam who has addressed the Boston congregation, Yasir Qadhi, has called for the replacement of the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law and said that the “life and prosperity” of Christians “holds no value in the state of Jihad.”

On June 12, 2013, as the scandal of the Obama Administration’s massive surveillance of law-abiding Americans was breaking, it was revealed that while the National Security Agency was listening to every phone call and reading every email, there was one place where people could be safe from surveillance: inside a mosque. Investor’s Business Daily reported that “the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.”

This panel “was set up under pressure from Islamist groups who complained about FBI stings at mosques. Just months before the panel’s formation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations teamed up with the ACLU to sue the FBI for allegedly violating the civil rights of Muslims in Los Angeles by hiring an undercover agent to infiltrate and monitor mosques there.”

And specifically: “The FBI never canvassed Boston mosques until four days after the April 15 attacks, and it did not check out the radical Boston mosque where the Muslim bombers worshipped.”

The next day, Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) confronted FBI director Robert Mueller about this, saying:

The FBI never canvassed Boston mosques until four days after the April 15th attacks. If the Russians tell you that someone has been radicalized and you go check and see the mosques that they went to, then you get the articles of incorporation as I have for the group that created the Boston mosque where these Tsarnaevs attended, and you find out the name Alamoudi – which you’ll remember because while you were FBI director, this man who was so helpful to the Clinton administration with so many big things, he gets arrested at Dulles Airport by the FBI and he’s now doing over twenty years for supporting terrorism. This is the guy that started the mosque were your Tsarnaevs were attending, and you didn’t even bother to go check about the mosque? And then when you have the pictures, why did no one go to the mosque and say, “Who are these guys? They may attend here.” Why was that not done, since such a thorough job was done?

Mueller initially disputed this, saying, “Your facts are not altogether well –” In a heated exchange, Gohmert shot back: “Sir, if you’re going to call me a liar, you need to point out specifically where the facts are wrong.”

Mueller responded: “We went to the mosque. Prior to Boston,” he said vehemently. “Prior to Boston happening, we were in that mosque talking to imams several months beforehand as part of our outreach efforts.”

Gohmert then asked: “Were you aware that those mosques were started by Alamoudi?”

“I’ve answered the question, sir,” Mueller replied.

Not satisfied with this, Gohmert pressed: “You didn’t answer the question, were you aware that it was started by Alamoudi.” Mueller then admitted that he had not been.

Meanwhile, Boston refused to run our AFDI pro-freedom ads (we are suing on free speech grounds, of course). In nearby Worcester, Roman Catholic Bishop Robert McManus canceled my scheduled talk on Muslim persecution of Christians because, he said, it would harm the wonderful dialogue that local Catholics were having with Boston-area Muslims. He did this at the behest of a local Muslim leader who openly professed his support for convicted jihadist Mehanna.

And so now Boston is a hub for Islamic State recruitment. How is all that “outreach” working out?

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 12:51 am

    And can we look forward to reportage by courageous truth teller Lisa Wangsness about this ?

    Or maybe even a Monty Python wink-wink nudge-nudge expose ?

    Better yet, an insider/enabler privilege guilt guide how-to guide with plenty of selfie photos !

    Nah — don’t hold your collective breath, JW readers . . .

  2. Paleologos says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 3:22 am

    Robert,

    I find this all so sad. These are all my old stomping grounds. I attended college in Boston and Worcester. I was fortunate to witness the Bill Russell and Larry Bird eras of the Boston Celtics. I took in many baseball games at Fenway Park, and watched the New England Patriots.

    All the while I realized I was in a liberal bastion, but never dreamed the general intellect had devolved to the point of swallowing whole the muslim kool aid that the islamocrats, as I now refer to the dems, have fed to the eager and clueless masses … hook, line, and sinker.

    You have posted before on your run in with McManus …

    … In nearby Worcester, Roman Catholic Bishop Robert McManus canceled my scheduled talk on Muslim persecution of Christians because, he said, it would harm the wonderful dialogue that local Catholics were having with Boston-area Muslims. He did this at the behest of a local Muslim leader who openly professed his support for convicted jihadist Mehanna. …

    As a Catholic and New York native, I am deeply troubled by the failure of McManus and other Catholics like him, as well as our current Pope, Francis, to come to grips with the inherent evil of islam the way Benedict XVI did.

    What makes a successful and powerful Jew like Mike Bloomberg ignore the facts …

    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5292/clueless-lefties-completely-ignorant-about-hitlers-ties-to-the-muslims/

    … and give an inane speech like this? …

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsHc1EHgQY

    I pray almost every day for God to lift this hellish cloud with which islam seems to have trapped much of the infidel world.

    The old battle words of the X Files ring true … “The truth is out there!” … there just doesn’t seem to be enough people really bothering to look for the truth. 🙁

    R/

    Paleologos

    • gungadin says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 5:59 am

      GREAT post !! As a former New Yorker who loves Boston, I too have seen the changes there. As an “old” man I’ve seen this country go from a time when they played the Stars Spangled Banner prior to the start of a movie to a time when its now acceptable to desecrate our flag. I’ve seen a time when jokes that poked fun at ones ethnicity now become a distant memory. We have passed a time when we had the ability to laugh at ourselves and kid with one another. Its all been replaced by “political correctness”…..I’ve said to my kids that unless this world wakes up, there will come a day that they will “once again feed Chrisitans to the lions”…..So very sad

    • Ashley says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 9:44 am

      Paleologos…you said it so well. Thank you.

      I’ve been here in MA for 30+ years…Bill Russell and Larry Bird indeed. Fine days before the word “jihad” hit my vocabulary.

      Now I feel like a stranger in a strange land.

  3. Undaunted says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 6:57 am

    My take on Boston and her bombers…

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2013/05/you-can-run-but-you-cannot-hide.html

  4. flhspete says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 7:03 am

    Following the spot on replies, I’d add to the points made that I am bothered that so many ppl go along with the idea that ‘but the West, too, is now gripped by insanity’. And that type thinking in the west. You and I see it. We call it out. We don’t accept the obvious lies. There are many of us. Millions. Yet ‘it’ continues bc of a corrupt few temporary politicians, media, clueless voters (yea I know, it’s corrupt anyway…), and cowards spread out (almost the entire republican USA party; all USA schools; all usa religious establishments). Yet there are millions of us. huh? So, the ‘west’ is us. When ‘us’ decides we had enough, we’ll push back. I hope it isn’t pretty. I’m 50+ years old and haven’t voted for a conservative potus since Ronnie. I too recall all that was said of yesteryear. I’m tired of the bs AND the bs lies my neighbors accept with blind faith. idiots. Yet there are millions of us. Just remember that when it comes time to push back or if you prefer, save ‘our’ way of life.

  5. DiMu says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 8:47 am

    Every mosque in the USA is either promoting jihad or supporting it by being passive. This is an information war as much as a territorial war, and the mosques are the epicenters of terrorist training. But for as long as Obama is in the White House, nothing will be done about this threat.

    The damage of another two year’s neglect will be astronomical!

  6. WorldWatchman says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 9:22 am

    The Federal government consisting of democrats AND republicans who have allowed muslims to live in our country along with governors and city mayors are responsible for the bloodshed in the streets of America from these sub-humans. The BIGGEST question is WHY WERE THEY ALLOWED ON AMERICAN SOIL?

    • mortimer says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 9:41 am

      Answer: 1) freedom of religion 2) UN treaty obligations to bring in Muslim refugees

      The UN treaty obligations have to be revisited. No one wants jihadists moving in or misogynists or supremacists.

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Basically, Americans are being forced by their STUPID, NAIVE, GULLIBLE politicians to FUND JIHAD RECRUITMENT!

    The delicious irony is that Saudi Arabia created the ISIS Frankenstein’s monster and now has to hunt and kill it!

  8. RichardL says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 10:55 am

    when, in ten years or so, islam will be acknowledged as the enemy of decency, freedom and wisdom, Robert will be treated like a sage. I don’t think he is a sage, but I think he is doing incredibly important work and has miraculously never put a foot wrong.
    Here in Germany, the tide is turning. The “islam is peace” incantations of those in power (and all the media) are now regularly answered by boohs. The AfD, a semi-conservative party, is gaining votes extremely fast since they have become more anti-islamic. In one state election they got 12%, while the SPD only got 2% more. Next federal election they will be the second largest party, I think. So, Germany might make it. Britain and France are lost. The US I am not worried about.

  9. Richard T. White says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 11:20 am

    I’m not very surprised at what’s going on in Boston relating to the Muslim community. Those liberal politicians, multi-cultural, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic crowd are strongly pushing their ideology at every level. I lived In Boston, Roxbury, for twenty years and witnessed the slow, deliberate, and thoughtful evolution of this growing and powerful religion. The City of Boston allowed the Muslim faith to build a 35,000 square foot mosque in Roxbury, one of the biggest in the country, in Boston’s predominately minority area. It has attracted many followers and if you ask the average Bostonian, they don’t have a clue about it’s existence.

    The question is , Can Muslims Be Good Americans?

    Religiously, the answer is no because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256.)

    Scripturally, the answer is no because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran.

    Geographically, the answer is no because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

    Socially, the answer is no because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians and Jews.

    Politically, the answer is no because because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and the destruction of America.

    Domestically, the answer is no because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him, (Quran 4:34.)

    Intellectually, the answer is no because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

    Philosophically, the answer is no because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.

    Therefore, after much study and deliberation, perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. To be a good American, we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Based on their ideology and belief, it would be very difficult to be both, a good Muslims and good American.

    The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.

    As a footnote, Malcolm X, was converted to Islam while sitting in the Charles Street Jail in Boston.

  10. Ronald D. Bruno says

    Sep 26, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    Fear not, this movement of ISIS is just part of the stage being set for the GT. God is sovereign and allows evil for a purpose. But the fullness of the gentiles has reached its precipice. The gospel has been preached to the world and so the end is near. The end of what? The world system; sin and evil. Whether Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Scientologist, atheist or any other religion or philosophy that leads people away from Jesus, it’s ALL going to be destroyed. I do not mention Judaism because a remnant will be saved when He returns. They will finally realize who their Messiah is when He lifts the veil over their eyes. (see Romans 11) Comfort in the fact that He is in control and this must take place. God did not intend for us to struggle in a sinful world for eons without end. Peace, love and harmony are only possible in the absence of sin. It needs to be banished. Then we can truly experience real peace on earth and good will under a righteous king, Jesus.

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