Over 400 Radical, Anti-US Islamic Centers Exposed
David Gaubatz, the director of counterintelligence and counterterrorism for the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE) told Insight Magazine, "Our initial investigation has concluded there are between 400 to 500 radical Islamic centers in the U.S. In those places, they preach an extreme version of Islam that says America and the West is the enemy. They espouse violence, hatred and the need for terrorism."
A former senior U.S. intelligence official, Gaubatz now works for the national non-profit group Mapping Sharia, which is devoted to investigating the 2,300 Islamic centers in the U.S. for Muslim extremist activity and supported by SANE.
The Mapping Sharia in the U.S. website describes the mission: "The Mapping Shari'a in America Project is the world's first effort to systematically evaluate the threat that a nation faces from efforts to impose Shari'a within its borders." The Mapping Sharia project's investigators include seasoned intelligence and counter-terrorism experts and Islamic scholars (Muslims, Christians and Jews), many of whom are fluent in Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi.
"Shari'a is not merely speech, and it is certainly not religion as understood by the West," SANE's President, David Yerushalmi, said at a morning press conference, according to the Mapping Sharia site. "Rather, it is a political and ideological mandate to destroy the West. We believe that every act to teach, preach, and live according to traditional, historical, and authoritative Shari'a contributes to a criminal conspiracy to overthrow our government."
The Mapping Sharia project ranks Islamic mosques and schools in terms of their level of adherence to Shari'a. The Mapping Sharia project will also assess the risks these Islamic centers pose in terms of future Jihadist attacks. The project is making this information available to law enforcement and the public.
Recently, Director David Gaubatz and his team penetrated the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located in Falls Church, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Sporting a beard and Muslim dress, Gaubatz said he went on May 18 to the center, pretending to be an American interested in becoming a convert to Islam. He discovered the center espoused terrorism and jihad against America.
"They are teaching what they call Jihad Qital, which means physical jihad," Gaubatz said. "They're teaching violence and hatred of the United States."
Gaubatz said that he met the two primary clerics at Dar Al-Hijrah, Imam Shaker Elsayed and Imam Johari Abdulmalik. Both men have been trained in Saudi Arabia. He says another key individual is Yusef Estes, an informal senior leader at the center and an internationally influential Muslim scholar who was trained in Saudi Arabia.
"They put me through the process of learning their faith and ideology," Gaubatz said. "They felt close to me and they gave me literature and CDs. They told me to study. The literature is very Jihad Qital."
He said that the Islamic center has deep ties to Saudi Arabia and espouses Wahhabism, a virulent and puritanical version of Islam.
"Many members of the mosque provided me literature to study. Most of the literature they gave me was from Saudi Arabia," he said. "Their literature preaches that America and the West are decadent and evil, and that Muslims have a moral duty to engage in violence against the infidels."
Gaubatz says that Dar Al-Hijrah and other radical Islamic centers in the U.S. are funded by Saudi Arabia, which is the primary sponsor of the Wahhabist brand of Islam.
"The ultimate goal for those at Dar Al-Hijrah is to instill Sharia law in the U.S. and have America adhere to the Islamic faith," he said. "They want America to be an Islamic state."
This is particularly chilling in light of the recent Pew Research Study on Muslims in America which revealed that the majority (60%) of Muslims here in the U.S. consider themselves Muslims first and Americans second.
Sources:
Private undercover team exposes nationwide network of radical, anti-U.S. Islamic centers, Insight Magazine, June 12, http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/islamic_0.htm (jihad, terrorism, wahhabism, sharia law, muslim, islam)
Mapping Sharia, http://www.mappingsharia.us/ (jihad, terrorism, wahhabism, sharia law, muslim, islam)
Press Release: Mapping Shari'a in America: Knowing the Enemy, The Mapping Sharia Project, June 13, 2007, http://www.mappingsharia.us/Press-Release-Mapping-Sharia-in-America-Knowing-the-Enemy-article-437-67.htm(jihad, terrorism, wahhabism, sharia law, muslim, islam)
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Post a CommentJust google the name
Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE)
The sole objective of the group is banishing Islam from the US by making "adherence to Islam" punishable by 20 years in prison.
AGENDA MUCH?
David Yerusalmi
(who spent 15 years in Israel and set up the Israel Export Development Co., Ltd., as an entrepreneurial policy tool to initiate radical free market reforms in Israel.)
... issued a paper titled "War Manifesto - The War Against Islam" suggesting that all practicing Muslims, irrespective of their declarations to the contrary, should not be allowed to immigrate to this country.
Also note, Bush imposed Sharia Law on previously secular Iraq. Look that up too.
Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Ingraham
Good grief.
Very urgent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vagn2g8iBXM
David Gaubatz, are you working with Daniel Pipes? That kind of explains everthing.
I will let the Koran speak for itself.
Sura 9:29, "Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection." - Shakir's translation
Hi Moeursalen, I agree with you completely about the ease with which many in the U.S. criticize the Christians (and, yes, I agree some of the more heavy-duty, right wing ones can be exactly the type of pain to which you refer. And even when the occasional, evil wackos bombs an abortion clinic, which is definitely way outside of the guidelines for Christian living in the Bible and something upon which I suspect God frowns mightily, the Lutherans and the Methodists are not issuing fatwas or strapping bombs to their bodies for suicide missions. I think there's this naive mindset among the ... ahem ... intellectual set that all religions are good and preach love, justice, harmony, etc. These multiculturalists need to compare the examples of the Christian prophet Jesus with the violent track record and teaching of Mohammed. The Christian church is no longer engaged in the Crusades, and in many ways, those were a response to Islamic aggression.
Hi T.H., I really like your working title. ;-) I think these extremists are using the freedoms we enjoy in an open society against us, as a means towards their goal of Islamicizing the West. Look at what's happening in the U.K. A recent poll showed that quite a few Muslims in the U.K. want Sharia law in the U.K. This is the one that puzzles me -- why flee countries ruled by uneducated and fanatical mullahs to the freedom of the West, only to want to turn the western country that gave you a safe harbor into a Sharia state? Actually, it's kind of your question just worded differently, I think...
Hi Kareyth, here's some info on Insight Magazine (from their website) --Insight is Washington's premier political intelligence report and was recognized as America's No. 1 conservative news site by Rolling Stone Magazine's 2006 "Hot List". Insight's articles have been cited by FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Ingraham -- among many others.
I wouldn't worry about that question. If the magazine is saying they are quoting someone of the Director's stature, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to fabricate such a quote. Very good article-cutting edge subject-kudos.
Good article, Kimberly. Too many people in America find it easy to criticize contemporary social demons like "the religious right" (which granted can be a pain in the ____ sometimes) but are very forgiving about the fanatic, violent, nazi tactics of militant Islam. It's really crazy that fanatical religious Hamas has made a coup in Gaza and murdered Fatah members. That's happening right now.