Solution to terror? 'Shut down mosques'
Organization claims these 3 centers not religious, but 'breeding grounds for jihad'
Drew Zahn
Monday, April 29, 2013
wnd.com 
A “human rights” organization is calling on government authorities to shut down three U.S. mosques it claims are not merely religious centers, but political entities and “breeding grounds for jihad terror.”
The American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, explains its demands are part of an 18-point plan to protect the nation from Islamic terror in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement, “In accord with those calls for responsible law enforcement regarding subversive activities in U.S. mosques, we are asking that government and law enforcement officials launch immediate investigations into the Islamic Society of Boston, the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque of Fairfax County, Va., and the Noor Center of Columbus, Ohio.”
“Any mosque advocating jihad or any aspects of Shariah that conflict with constitutional freedoms and protections should be closed,” AFDI insists.
AFDI argues shutting down the mosques wouldn’t be a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment protecting freedom of religion, because Islam is not merely a religion, but a “political system.”
“AFDI calls for the U.S. and other non-Muslim governments to recognize officially that Islam is a political movement and so not solely religious in the strict sense of the U.S. Constitution,” the organization states on its website. “Islam in its mainstream theological formulations and its dominant form throughout its history – not ‘extremist Islam’ or ‘hijacked Islam’ or ‘Islamism,’ but Islam in the Qur’an and Sunnah as understood by Islamic jurists and theologians – can and should be regarded as an authoritarian and supremacist political system as well as a religion, and thus Muslim groups should be subject to all the scrutiny and legal requirements of political organizations, without being able to shield their political activities behind the protection of religious freedom.”
AFDI, therefore, is calling for “immediate investigation into foreign mosque funding in the West and for new legislation making foreign funding of mosques in non-Muslim nations illegal,” as well as for “surveillance of mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S. and other non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials.”
AFDI explained in a statement why it specifically called for closure of the three mosques in Massachusetts, Virginia and Ohio.
The Islamic Society of Boston, AFDI claims,
•Was founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, now in prison for financing al-Qaida;
•Was attended by Aafia Siddiqui, now serving an 86-year-sentence for plotting a jihad attack in New York City;
•Was attended by Tarek Mehanna, now serving 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaida;
•Was attended by Ahmad Abousamra, who has fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI;
•Was attended by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bombers.
The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Va., AFDI asserts,
•Was established with funds from a Muslim Brotherhood group;
•Was led by Mohammed al-Hanooti, the mosque’s imam from 1995-1999, who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing;
•Was led by Anwar al-Awlaki, the mosque’s imam from 2001-2002, who the U.S. government says was involved in al-Qaida terrorist operations and has had extensive contact with three 9/11 hijackers, the Fort Hood jihad murderer and the Christmas underwear bomber;
•Included Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a camp counselor at the mosque now in prison for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush;
•Was attended by Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer.
The Noor Mosque in Columbus, Ohio, AFDI asserts,
•Is led by Dr. Hany Saqr, previously an imam for another mosque, which at that time was the base of operations for al-Qaida, including convicted jihadists Iyman Faris, Nuradin Abdi and Christopher Paul;
•Has been directly linked to the Somali Muslims who have gone from the U.S. back to Somali for jihad terror training;
•Has had members who threatened the life of Rifqa Bary, a teenage girl who left Islam for Christianity.
“These mosques are not unique,” Geller claims. “There are many others like them. But they are the tip of the spear. It is time that our officials demand that they obey American laws or be held accountable for not doing so.”
AFDI asserts itself as a “human rights” organization because of its stance against the encroaching tyranny of Islam’s Shariah legal system, claiming it defends the freedom of speech from Islamic “blasphemy” laws, the freedom of conscience from the Islamic death penalty for apostasy and the the equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to Shariah’s “institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.” |
