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To: LindyBill who wrote (126986)	7/23/2005 10:10:25 AM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Slowly, the voices of anti-terrorism Muslims in the US may be getting heard. But it's shameful this article didn't appear in a US newspaper.

To: LindyBill who wrote (126986)	7/23/2005 1:24:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793964

Islam's US faithful are happy to embrace the American dream Would that it were universally true.

To: LindyBill who wrote (126986)	7/23/2005 11:41:18 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 793964

Alawan said: "If anybody preached in favour of bombing in this mosque, the community would be on top of them. ''They'd report it to the board [of the mosque] and he'd be fired. They can just send him 90 minutes west and he'd feel right at home. **************************************************************** Bridgeview Mosque Foundation/ Hamas member Mohamed Saleh arrested with Howard U prof Abdelhaleem Ashqar on terrorism charges August 21, 2004 MIM: After years of being under law enforcement scrutiny more proof of the obvious emerges revealing the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation's direct ties to Hamas . The BMF spokesman is Rafiq Jaber, the head of the Islamic Association of Palestine, which is the American wing of Hamas Which begs the question of how such a hub of terrorist activity in the Hamas stronghold of Bridgeview Illinois, is still conducting 'business as usual' and why Muhammed Hamid Khalil Salah is the only BMF associate who was arrested this week. . Imam Jamil Said of The Bridgeview Mosque Foundation is a known Hamas leader. The BMF president Oussama Jamal, , is a darling of the Chicago interfaith circuit, who apparently have no problems with his and Jamal's declarations at a post 9/11 community memorial service where he stated that he did not think Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks, and that terrorism was a direct result of US support of Israel. Jamal used the event to bash Israel and cry to the media about how Muslims are suffering in the US. ------------------------------------------- Hamas activist Oussama Jammal owns a film company and recently won an award at the International Family Film festival in California. ----------------------------------------------------- Oussama Jammal Oussama Jammal, President, The Mosque Foundation, Bridgeview, IL; At a post 9/11 press conference, in the presence of mosque spokesman Rafiq Jaber, and Imam Jamil Said, Ousama Jammal stated the following: "How certain are we that it was Arabs who were behind it?" Suggesting that Americans look at the causes, he argued that despair and fear are at the roots of terrorism. washington-report.org The Bridgeview mosque is known as a center of IAP, Hamas, and Al Qaeda activity. The spokesman for the Bridgeview Mosque is Rafiq Jaber, the national president of the Islamic Association of Palestine. which is "considered to be a front group for Hamas operating inside the United States". worldnetdaily.com Nabil Al Marabh, a suspected planner in the 9/11 hijackings attended the Bridgeview mosque. suntimes.com A member of the the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation, Mohammed Saleh, was the first American citizen to make the FBI's most wanted Islamic terrorist list . The Bridgeview mosque has also been linked to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity which was closed down by the U.S. government for fund raising for terrorist groups. littlegreenfootballs.com. ----------- littlegreenfootballs.com Among the leaders at the Bridgeview mosque are men who have condemned Western culture, praised Palestinian suicide bombers and encouraged members to view society in stark terms: Muslims against the world. Federal authorities for years have investigated some mosque officials for possible links to terrorism financing, but no criminal charges have been filed. Mosque leaders deny encouraging militancy and have denounced terrorism, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. They shun the fundamentalist label, saying they follow the true form of Islam and others do not. They point out that an elected board sets mosque policy; if the worshipers wanted a more liberal mosque, they would vote for one. "It's an election, a democratic process," mosque President Oussama Jammal said. The mosque now attracts thousands of worshipers—most of them Palestinian-Americans—by offering pro-Palestinian sermons, a spiritual refuge and a strict version of Islam The ultraconservative Saudi Arabian government partially pays the salary of prayer leader Sheik Jamal. -------------------------------------------------- MIM: Below Ousamma Jamal in tuxedo, being feted and receiving award as head of his private film company the "Fine Media Group" At a post 9/11 interfaith event at the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation he callously and brazenly stated that he does not think Americans "are willing to give up luxuries" in an apparent reference to Islamist jealousy of America's wealth and sinisterly mocks:"But how long will they hold out?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- washington-report.org Excerpt from "Portrait of a City" As for Osama bin Laden, the general consensus in Chicago's Arab and Muslim community seems to be that it would have taken more than the resources available to the "Nomad of Afghanistan" to carry out operations of the sophistication and magnitude of the Sept. 11 terror. "How certain are we that it was Arabs who were behind it?" asked Jammal. Suggesting that Americans look at the causes, he argued that despair and fear are at the roots of terrorism. His remedy: "Go after what makes people hopeless." Do Americans have the patience for that? Jammal sounded doubtful. "We, as Arabs, are no strangers to suffering," he noted. "Americans are saying now that they are willing to give up some luxuries to get through the next phase. But how long will they hold out?"