Study Shows 3 Out Of 4 U.S. Mosques Hotbeds Of Anti-West Extremism

This is alarming:

The Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained former counterintelligence and counterterrorism agents from the FBI, CIA and U.S. military, who are skilled in Arabic and Urdu, to conduct undercover reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and Islamic centers and schools across the country.

“So far of 100 mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist,” an official familiar with the project said.

Many of the Islamic centers are operating under the auspices of the Saudi Arabian government and U.S. front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt.

Frank Gaffney, a former Pentagon official who runs the Center for Security Policy, says the results of the survey have not yet been published. But he confirmed that “the vast majority” are inciting insurrection and jihad through sermons by Saudi-trained imams and anti-Western literature, videos and textbooks.

So far 102 Mosques and schools have been looked at. Preliminary findings include:

• Ultra-orthodox worship in which women are separated from men in the prayer hall and must enter the mosque from a separate, usually back, entrance; and are required to wear hijabs.

• Sermons that preach women are inferior to men and can be beaten for disobedience; that non-Muslims, particularly Jews, are infidels and inferior to Muslims; that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim’s duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called “martyrs” are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S.

• Solicitation of financial support for jihad.

• Bookstores that sell books, CDs and DVDs promoting jihad and glorifying martyrdom.

Of course, Mapping Sharia In America isn’t alone in its concern. Congressman Peter King (R. NY), puts the number of extremist mosques at 85%.

Here he is on The Neil Caputo Show last year, making his case:

Related:

A recent video posted at Mosquewatch.