Capturing the MidEast in short soundbites: poignant reflections by people who understand the complexities of the Middle East. My philosophy is: "less is more." You won't agree with everything that's here, but I'm confident you will find it interesting! Excepting the titles, my own comments are minimal. Instead I rely on news sources to string together what I hope is an interesting, politically challenging, non-partisan, non-ideological narrative.
CBN is a little too Right and though this story seems fair and balanced at first, they lose it by citing "a recent study shows 81% of these Mosques have literature espousing violence" That might be a study worth citing specifically for such an inflammatory remark. Nevertheless, the community has many valid concerns that need to be addressed. You don't want to give in to prejudice no matter who it is aimed against, but you do not want to inconvenience an entire neighborhood for something inappropriate and unnecessary for that community, nor do you want to allow a group that may front for terrorists any access at all.
Figures estimating the percentage of radical mosques in the United States are not low. I've seen figures that estimate the figure at 75%...so a study showing 81% is not surprising. Usually,the standard for judging a mosque that espouses violence is 'wahabi' [the 'official' Saudi brand] or worse. So the figure reflects the wide influence in America of Saudi wahabi philosophy. See for instance:http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/01/saudi-supported-mosques-and-islamic-research
Thank you. I saw the list but I am still not clear besides guilt by association that these organizations have been found to be espousing violence. Again, I am not saying they are not, just want to make sure every religious group gets the fair shake any other group would demand.
There are certainly independent mosques [like the one in East Brunswick, New Jersey] but Saudi money means wahabi philosophy which does brings militant-jihad teachings with it [books, schooling to young Muslim American students and horrible clergy]. The Saudis sold their clergy to the wahabi sect some years ago. That's how they produced bin Laden. While it's bit them in the backside, they have not really tried to put the genie back in the bottle in any significant way. Saudi exporting of wahabism is a significant American problem.
See for instance: http://www.meforum.org/537/the-saudi-state-and-terrorism Bruce :}
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CBN is a little too Right and though this story seems fair and balanced at first, they lose it by citing "a recent study shows 81% of these Mosques have literature espousing violence" That might be a study worth citing specifically for such an inflammatory remark. Nevertheless, the community has many valid concerns that need to be addressed. You don't want to give in to prejudice no matter who it is aimed against, but you do not want to inconvenience an entire neighborhood for something inappropriate and unnecessary for that community, nor do you want to allow a group that may front for terrorists any access at all.
Figures estimating the percentage of radical mosques in the United States are not low. I've seen figures that estimate the figure at 75%...so a study showing 81% is not surprising. Usually,the standard for judging a mosque that espouses violence is 'wahabi' [the 'official' Saudi brand] or worse.
So the figure reflects the wide influence in America of Saudi wahabi philosophy.
See for instance:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/01/saudi-supported-mosques-and-islamic-research
Thank you. I saw the list but I am still not clear besides guilt by association that these organizations have been found to be espousing violence. Again, I am not saying they are not, just want to make sure every religious group gets the fair shake any other group would demand.
There are certainly independent mosques [like the one in East Brunswick, New Jersey] but Saudi money means wahabi philosophy which does brings militant-jihad teachings with it [books, schooling to young Muslim American students and horrible clergy]. The Saudis sold their clergy to the wahabi sect some years ago. That's how they produced bin Laden.
While it's bit them in the backside, they have not really tried to put the genie back in the bottle in any significant way.
Saudi exporting of wahabism is a significant American problem.
See for instance:
http://www.meforum.org/537/the-saudi-state-and-terrorism
Bruce :}
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