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Wahabi mosque under construction in Boston
CBN News ^ | Nov. 16, 2004 | Angel90210

Posted on 11/16/2004 7:32:01 AM PST by angel90210

I was just watching CBN news and they were saying that one of the largest mosques in North America is under construction in Boston (anyone in Boston aware of this?). The mosque has Wahabi connection and is associated with the Islamic Society of Boston (with Wahabi and terrorist connections). The city of Boston sold the land for 25-50% of its actual value, all without comments from the mayor's office and Boston Globe. What's going on here? We are over in the Middle East bombing Arabs. Something like 70% or more Arabs hate the USA and we're importing radical Islamists right in our midst. It's like lighting a cigarette in a munitions factory.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonmosque; isb; islam; islamicsociety; jihad; jihadinamerica; koranimals; mosque; muslim; saudi; saudiarabia; terrorism; terrorist; wahabbi; wahabi
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To: MadAnthony1776
I remember turning the corner on a beautiful new england country road in MA a few years ago & being suddenly confronted by a huge, gaudy mosque complete with gold filigree, blue minaretes etc.

It was as much an incongruous monstrosity to the eyes as the 'religion' it represented is to our way of life.

61 posted on 11/16/2004 8:50:39 AM PST by skeeter
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To: stuartcr

Never said it was. I have Muslim friends who are not terrorists.


62 posted on 11/16/2004 8:52:43 AM PST by rintense
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To: RightWhale

It's a very extreme form of islam, which is popular in Saudi Arabia, and which the Saudis are promoting in the US.

Wahabism (various spellings) is a tool for terror.

It's got to be stopped in the US.


63 posted on 11/16/2004 8:52:45 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: stuartcr
You need to do some research on this subject.

This is not a peaceful religion. Take a look at what is going on all over the world. They demand tolerance but do not return it. If you don't agree with them than you are the enemy and they have every right to destroy you. Freedom of religion means you have a choice. They don't give people a choice, and when their numbers in the population go up, you better watch out.

Look at what is going on in the Netherlands. One of the most tolerant societies but when Van Gogh had the nerve to expose how the Muslims treat their women, he was murdered in the street in broad daylight. So much for tolerance and free speech.

Mark my words, it is coming here and I'm afraid sooner than we think.
64 posted on 11/16/2004 8:53:06 AM PST by jan in Colorado (I'm not opinionated, I'm Just Always "Right "!)
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To: angel90210
Time for the map.

Although this map is two years old and many Mosque's have sprung up across the United States since, it is still worth noting.


65 posted on 11/16/2004 8:54:02 AM PST by SheLion (God bless and protect our troops. I love them one and all!)
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To: RightWhale

Wahabi mosque under construction in Boston
..........to have two (2) giant towers?


66 posted on 11/16/2004 8:54:49 AM PST by maestro
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To: jan in Colorado

I am not a Muslim, but I believe that, whatever the outcome, it will be God's will.


67 posted on 11/16/2004 8:55:32 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: jan in Colorado
Mark my words, it is coming here and I'm afraid sooner than we think.


68 posted on 11/16/2004 8:57:49 AM PST by SheLion (God bless and protect our troops. I love them one and all!)
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To: stuartcr

Wahabism is militant Islam.


69 posted on 11/16/2004 8:58:09 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (recycled: Black dogs are my life.)
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To: texasbluebell
It's a very extreme form of islam, which is popular in Saudi Arabia, and which the Saudis are promoting in the US.

Its "true Islam" - Islam in itself is an extreme ideology. The wahabbis and the salafist movement in general want to return to Islam in its pure unadulterated form. They do not permit "bidah" (innovations) that came after the head pedophile and.

70 posted on 11/16/2004 8:59:04 AM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade.)
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To: stuartcr

That's awfully close to fatalism, which is what moslems believe in. There's no free will in the moslem world.

Don't you believe in saving yourself? Your family? Your country?

We shouldn't lift a finger to stop the spread of fanatical islam?

I think you'll find some disagreement.


71 posted on 11/16/2004 8:59:21 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: jan in Colorado
If you don't agree with them than you are the enemy and they have every right to destroy you.

Agree. See:

THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS

72 posted on 11/16/2004 9:02:08 AM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade.)
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To: USF
Its "true Islam" - Islam in itself is an extreme ideology.

Well, I certainly think so...

73 posted on 11/16/2004 9:04:45 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: stuartcr
Maybe God's will is for Christians to start standing up to false religion and to teach Jesus Christ.

If you study the Old Testament you will see that God many times used other Nations to bring His fallen people back to Him.

Jesus did not teach tolerance he taught love and repentance. There is a difference.

Have you ever wondered why they are all coming over here? They don't assimilate into the culture like other immigrants. This secular culture is abhorrent to them. So why do you think they are here?
74 posted on 11/16/2004 9:06:08 AM PST by jan in Colorado (I'm not opinionated, I'm Just Always "Right "!)
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To: angel90210

Goody! Will the city council make changes to noise statutes (like in Michigan) so they can make with the loud call to prayer umpteen times a day?


75 posted on 11/16/2004 9:08:09 AM PST by moehoward
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To: texasbluebell

I believe that God is all-powerful, and all-knowing, thus, I believe that He knows exactly what any one person will do prior to the act. Call it what you will.


76 posted on 11/16/2004 9:08:17 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: angel90210
The CBN actually has an article of what they showed on the segment on TV.

http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/041116a.asp

By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Producer
November 16, 2004


CBN.comBOSTON, Massachusetts - A mosque is rising in the heart of Boston. Not just any mosque, but the largest mosque in the northeastern United States.

At a cost of $22 million, the 60,000-square-foot Islamic Cultural Center will be a prominent symbol of the growth of Islam in America. But the project is under fire, as some say it will also be a symbol of radical Islam.

The Islamic Society of Boston is under scrutiny for ties to radicalism. But the society says it does not tolerate extremism. And yet, some former and present leaders of the society have been tied to extremism.

The connections go right to the foundation of this mosque and the Islamic Society of Boston, or ISB.

The very founder of the Islamic society, Abdurahman Alamoudi, is sitting in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges related to a bizarre plot by Moammar Ghadafi to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. But the society insists it hasn't had a relationship with its founder for several years.

Dr. Yusef al-Qaradawi used to be listed as one of the society’s four directors, on IRS forms.
The ISB says Qaradawi is a respected Muslim scholar, but the Egyptian Wahabbi cleric has urged Iraqi Muslims to kill American soldiers, and has praised Palestinian suicide bombers.

He was almost banned from entering Britain this summer. On July 7, 2004, he was publicly condemned by Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said, "Let me make it absolutely clear. We want nothing to do with people who support suicide bombers in Palestine or elsewhere, or support terrorism.”

In 1995, Qaradawi told his followers, "We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!" The society says listing Qaradawi as a director was an “administrative oversight'' which, it says, “was subsequently corrected.''

Dennis Hale, a Boston College professor, said, "This is a smokescreen. This is deception."

Hale heads Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, a group that wants the Islamic Society of Boston to come clean about its ties to radical Islam.

Hale remarked, "This is a mosque that combines Wahabbi theology, Muslim Brotherhood politics and lots of money, and that's a very dangerous combination. Everywhere in the world where that's been found, bad things happened."

Osama Kandil, a trustee of the society, has been linked by the government to the directorship of Taibah International Aid Association, a group that some federal officials suspect supports terrorists. The ISB says Taibah is an Islamic charitable organization.

Terrorism expert Stephen Scwartz has a different view. He said, “Taibah was a scheme that was used to swindle people to get them to believe they were helping Bosnians, when, in fact, Taibah exploited Bosnians and Bosnia in order to advance the terrorist agenda in Europe. Taibah was shut down by the Bosnian government right after 9-11, and I don't accept in any way, any description of Taibah as anything else but part of the terrorist network.”

Kandil has also been identified in a federal government affidavit as a member of the "Safa Group," a complicated array of individuals and interlocking for-profit and non-profit entities allegedly involved in financing Islamic terrorism.

Schwartz said, “The SAFA group is much worse than Taibah in my view. Now, the SAFA group is a group that operates in the United States. And the SAFA group is essentially a financial cover for groups connected to Wahabbism in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood. SAFA was essentially a financial conspiracy to support extremist activity all over the world.”

An affidavit unsealed in federal court in Virginia last year said financial activity by the Safa Group "evidences a conspiracy. . .to route money through hidden paths to terrorists and to defraud the United States."

Walid Fitaihi, another leader of the society, wrote in an article for an Arabic-language newspaper that Jews are the "the murderers of prophets." According to one translation, he also accused Jews of the "oppression, murder, and rape of the worshipers of Allah. They have perpetrated the worst of evils, and they have brought the worst corruption to the earth..."

The ISB says Fitaihi's comments were ``not meant to incite hatred of an entire faith or people.''

Hale said, “The new so-called new leaders of the Mosque have continued to deny that Fitaihi is an anti-Semite and he's still on the board of trustees. They said they would fire him. They said they had fired him, but they didn't.”

The bulk of the money for the new mosque has come from private individuals in Saudi Arabia. That is another red flag, according to terror experts. So you might think that at this point, the City of Boston would get involved.

But the mayor's office, as well as The Boston Globe newspaper, have brushed off concern over the mosque. In fact, the Boston Redevelopment Authority under Mayor Thomas Menino sold the ISB the land for the mosque for a song; one half or one quarter of its true value.

Real Estate developer Steve Cohen, a member of Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, said, “The City of Boston sold land to the Mosque for $175,000. This land was worth some place between $450,000 and $1 million. This is a religious group that can raise $22 million from contributors in the Middle East. Why do they need financial assistance?”

Cohen continued, “So many citizens are asking the question, why does this mosque, which is preaching such abhorrent views, and has access to millions of dollars raised in Saudi Arabia, why is this mosque being subsidized by the city of Boston?”

A suit has been filed by a Roxbury resident contending that the land sale violates the separation of mosque and state. The mayor's office did not respond to our request for an interview.

No less than Bernard Lewis, the world-renowned Arab expert at Princeton, told us the Wahabbi brand of Islam can be compared to the Ku Klux Klan.

Hale commented, “If the Ku Klux Klan built an academy in Boston, the Boston Globe would be all over them. But for some reason they have been reluctant to say what is clearly true about the teachers of Wahabbi Islam, that they are intolerant bigots, and sometimes violent, to boot.”

Former Harvard professor Dr. Ahmed Mansour says when he visited the present mosque in Cambridge with his wife, he found Wahabbi reading materials that preached hatred toward America.

CBN News tried repeatedly to interview new ISB Chairman Yousef Abou-Leban. Although the ISB says it has begun a new period of "transparency" and outreach to the media, the leadership declined to talk on camera with us. On its website, the ISB says, the "negative media attention given to the ISB is not the result of honest, diligent journalism, but of malicious intent to discredit our organization and the new Cultural Center in Boston."

The ISB website has also put a statement of faith on its Web page that condemns bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism. It also affirms the equality of men and women, although we found instructions on the website on the correct way a man should beat his wife.

Hale said, “There are many people who wonder why we would be picking on a mosque, and what we have tried to explain to people is that we have no objection to a mosque, it's the leaders of this mosque that we object to and have concerns about…This kind of teaching plants a bomb in the heart. There is such a thing as radical Islam. It's real. It's everywhere. It's first victims are moderate Muslims who feel left out of these radical mosques.”

But the mosque in Roxbury will be built, and it will be one of the largest mosques in America. Dr. Mansour says the Wahabbis teach that mosques in Christian nations are viewed as outposts ... in the land of the infidel.


77 posted on 11/16/2004 9:10:26 AM PST by angel90210
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To: jan in Colorado

I can only speak for the ones that I know, and have asked...that is for economic reasons, a desire to live in America, and because they were born here.

As for God's will...I hope that we find out when we die.


78 posted on 11/16/2004 9:11:20 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: SheLion
Thanks for the map and pictures. I have been researching this issue for over a year now, and I'm very concerned that this country is blind to what is going on.

The left and the ACLU, with it's anti American behavior as well as the spread of political correctness and tolerance, is setting this country up to be taken over.

You would think 9/11 would have woken people up, but I'm afraid it hasn't.
79 posted on 11/16/2004 9:16:23 AM PST by jan in Colorado (I'm not opinionated, I'm Just Always "Right "!)
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To: USF

Yep... Daniel Pipes has been all over this one


80 posted on 11/16/2004 9:19:12 AM PST by dennisw (G_D - against Amelek for all generations.)
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