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Saudi government funded jihad teaching in US mosques

Jul 20, 2016 2:54 pm By Robert Spencer

Four separate studies since 1999 all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. 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.

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. Specifically: “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 worshiper 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.” That means that around 1,700 mosques in the U.S. are preaching hatred of infidels and justifying violence against them.

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“Saudi government funded extremism in U.S. mosques and charities: report,” by Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, July 19, 2016:

Saudi Arabia was funding Muslim radicalism in mosques and charities at the time the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were gathering in the United States and making contacts with Saudi nationals, according to a declassified intelligence document.

To jihad watchers, the paper confirms their charges that the Saudi government and its wealthy citizens fund extremist teachings in America. To this day, the kingdom is pressing its harsh Wahhabi Sunni Islam on American Muslims as it seeks to spread Islam around the world, they say.

In the document, one Saudi who was receiving money from Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Riyadh’s ambassador to the U.S. at the time, made a startling statement to an FBI informant. The man, who had ties to some of the hijackers, told agents that it would do the U.S. no good to limit entry visas because a sufficient number of Muslims were already in the country to destroy it and create an Islamic state.

The disclosure was tucked in the “28 pages” — a long-secret chapter in a 2002 report by the House and Senate intelligence committees after an investigation in the immediate aftermath of the al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon. Of the 19 who hijacked four airliners, 15 were Saudis.

The report section, referred to as “Part 4,” deals mainly with one topic: suspected Saudi government support for the Sept. 11 plot. The George W. Bush administration insisted that the section remain classified. Under pressure, the Obama administration released the pages last week….

But the 28 pages also touch on an issue beyond the question of the attack itself. The Saudi government and Saudi citizens were funding groups that spread jihadi messages against the U.S., funded terrorist groups and were seen as recruiters for Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda terrorist leader.

Fifteen years later, the Riyadh government asserts that it undertook a monumental campaign to stop its citizens from funding terrorism.

Ties to terrorism

Here are some of the Saudi-linked entities mentioned in the 28 pages, which derived from the FBI’s and CIA’s earliest investigation into Sept. 11:

• The King Fahad mosque in Culver City, California. Sheik Fahad al-Thumairy was a Saudi diplomat in its mission in Los Angeles and an imam at the mosque.

Said Part 4: “The mosque was built in 1998 from funding provided by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdelaziz. The mosque is reportedly attended by members of the Saudi consultant in Los Angeles and is widely recognized for its anti-Western views.”

• The Ibn Tamiyah mosque in Culver City. The report called it “a site of extremist-related activity.” This mosque appears to be associated with the King Fahad Mosque.

The report: “Several subjects of FBI investigations prior to September 11 had close connections to the mosque and are believed to have laundered money through this mosque to non-profit organizations overseas affiliated with [O]sama bin Ladin. In an interview, an FBI agent said he believed that Saudi government money was being laundered through the mosque.

“In approximately 1998, the FBI became aware of millions of dollars in wire transfers from the Somali community in San Diego to A Bazakaat Trading Company and other businesses affiliated with Osama Bin Laden. At the time, the funding appeared to be originating from the local Somali community in the form of donations to various Somali non-profits. However, the FBI now believes that some of the funding actually originated in Saudi Arabia and that both the Ibn Tamiyah mosque in Los Angeles and the Islamic Center of San Diego were involved in laundering the money.”

• Omar al-Bayoumi. He met two of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, in San Diego in 2000. He helped the two find an apartment and obtain driver’s licenses. He managed a mosque in Cajon, California.

He received $400,000 from Saudi Arabia to fund a new mosque in San Diego. The FBI searched his papers and concluded, “after an exhaustive translation of Bayoumi documents, it is clear that in Bayoumi correspondence, he is providing guidance to young Muslims and some of his writings can be interpreted as jihadist.”

He also received money from Princess Haifa bit Faisal, wife of Prince Bandar. The FBI suspected him of being a Saudi intelligence agent.

• The Islamic Center of San Diego. The FBI suspected it of laundering Saudi money to al Qaeda. A center employee helped Hazmi and Mihdhar attend flight school and served as their translator.

• Osama Bassnan. An associate of Bayoumi’s, Bassnan praised Osama bin Laden and talked by phone with his family members. Bassnan worked at the Saudi Arabia Education Ministry in Washington. He later moved to San Diego.

He hosted a party in 1992 for the “Blind Sheikh,” a convicted plotter in the World Trade Center attack in 1993. Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheikh, received a life sentence.

The report: “According to an FBI asset, Bassnan spoke of bin Laden ‘as if he were a god.’ Bassnan also stated to an FBI asset that he heard that the U.S. government had stopped approving visas for foreign students. He considered such measures to be insufficient as there are already enough Muslims in the United States to destroy the United States and make it an Islamic state within ten to fifteen years.”

Bassnan and his wife also received money from Prince Bandar and his wife.

• Al Haramain Islamic Foundation. The FBI was alarmed by its ties to the Saudi kingdom and terrorists.

Said the report: “Intelligence reporting suggests it is providing financial and logistical support to al Qaeda.”

Al Haramain opened a U.S. office in Oregon and received about $700,000 from its parent organization in Saudi Arabia. Its documents show it wanted to appoint the imam for al-Bayoumi’s mosque.

The U.S. Treasury Department subsequently cited Al Haramain several times for ties to terrorism, and Riyadh banned its operations at home.

• The Islamic Assembly of North America. The Michigan-based group was “dedicated to the spread of Islam worldwide,” the report said.

“According to the FBI, the IANA’s mission is actually to spread Islamic fundamentalism and Salafist doctrine throughout the United States and the world at large. The IANA solicited funds from wealthy Saudi benefactors, extremists Islamic Sheikhs and suspect non-governmental organizations,” the report said.

The New York Times reported that half its budget came from the Saudi government. Its phone number in Michigan has been disconnected.

• The World Arab Muslim Youth Association and the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America. Both organizations are based in Riyadh.

The report: “There is reason to believe that WAMY is closely associated with the funding and financing of international terrorist activities.”…

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  1. salim says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    80% of mosques teaching jihad? that means 20% don’t! As an ex Muslim who spent many decades in Islam I don’t believe it. Jihad is the most revered worship in islam and it is unthinkable that a mosque or islamic school do not teach such a fundamental part of religion.
    Also I find it difficult to believe that a certain percentage of Muslims want sharia law, unless that percentage is close to 100% because what is islam without sharia? The Muslims who say don’t want sharia must be either not Muslims or liars, most probably liars.
    The West should become more vigilant to the widespread practice of deceit among muslims; they say what the West wants to hear but do what Islam wants them to do.
    As to the rest of the article, I don’t think most people have too much doubt about the Saudi funding of most mosques and islamic schools in the West

    • D J says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 3:47 pm

      People like you give me hope.
      3 years ago I did not know about taquiyya,kitman and muruna.
      Now I am awake.

    • Carrie says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 9:32 pm

      I agree with you: the 20% of mosques who said they don’t teach jihad, well, they lied.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Muslims can never stop holy work of jihad. It is every Muslims duty and Saudi Arabia is no exception. The Saudi robber king has to spend this money to spread jihad throughout the world or he won’t survive in the throne. This is the agreement they have with the Wahaabi clerics.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 9:36 pm

      You are absolutely correct Jaladhi. The whole idea of “jihad” was always to spread the unrest, and the fight OUTWARD – against the “other”.

  3. robm says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    As soon as the pigs are puked from the womb, they are groomed to be koranderthal deviant barbarian lunatics.

  4. Moses says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    Saudi Arabia funding Jihad .They are just following Allah’s doctrines (what else could go wrong.)

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    Saudi Arabia was funding Muslim radicalism in mosques and charities at the time the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were gathering in the United States and making contacts with Saudi nationals, according to a declassified intelligence document.

    This should surprise no one.

    • Christianblood says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 6:20 pm

      Saudi Arabia is the head of islamic dragon! Saudi Arabia spends trillions in funding and propagating islamic jihadist ideology all across the globe. American leaders are in the pockets of the evil house of Saud, all of them. America hates Christians but loves muslims such as the evil barbaric Saudis and the genocidal Turks.

      • Angemon says

        Jul 20, 2016 at 9:11 pm

        Christianblood posted:

        “Saudi Arabia is the head of islamic dragon! ”

        This is going to come as a surprise to you, but is Saudi Arabia were to disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow islam would still be here. You’d still have the other 55 OIC nations, including the nuclear, suicidal, genocidal Iran, from whom you run interference for on virtue of being aligned with Moscow. Or do you think that shia islam teaches something different than “convert, pay the jizyah or die”?

  6. Troybeam says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    It’s not just mosques people, it’s also our universities that build buildings for the sole purpose of teaching sharia law. Thanks to Supreme Court Kagan, Harvard University has such building since Kagan accepted a donation from the Saudi’s to build such a building when she was president of the college and there are many more such buildings across our nation.

    • Kay says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 9:39 pm

      And Bill Warner says textbooks have been changed (i.e. pre-university).

      Speak here. Speak to others too.

  7. Michael says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    Honestly, what else would they be teaching?

  8. Frank Livingston says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Who said this, to whom, when, why and what have we ever done about it? Would you consider this statement to be contrary to our Constitution, our way of life, a danger to our National/Homeland Security and the preservation of our nation and our Constitution? Would you think these are words of an enemy? Surely, both the House and Senate studied this but where are the reports?

    “The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every musselman [muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

    This statement was a part of a March 28, 1786, letter from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, the United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Continental Congress, concerning their conversation with Tripoli’s to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman as to why his pirates/terrorists hijacked our merchant ships, stole the ships and cargo while holding the sailors for ransom. (Source: Founders Online: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0315

  9. D.C. Watson says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    We knew this long before the clown pictured above ever took his embarrassing bow.

  10. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 8:25 pm

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

  11. Scorpion & Frog says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    The Scorpion and the Frog

    A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
    scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
    frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion
    says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”

    The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
    the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
    paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
    but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”

    Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature…”

  12. islam the religion of killers says

    Jul 20, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    The Western world should look at Egypt , in Egypt you have to preach only what the govt approves of, or you go to jail, (and Egypt does not give light sentences ) ..

    This is a way to slow the inevitable down for a while at least ..

    Change the law so , if they get caught preaching Jihad, the mosk is shut down and the Imam exported with out passport and citizenship ..

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