http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053160/posts "Jihad in Tennessee"
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 1/07/04 | Robert Spencer
Posted on 01/07/2004 1:37:28 AM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "While the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other American Muslim advocacy groups vehemently oppose efforts to investigate American mosques for signs of terrorist activity, evidence continues to mount that radical Muslims have been operating more or less with impunity in many stateside mosques and Islamic centers. It has just come to light that a militant Muslim organization in Knoxville, Tennessee, helped fund jihad in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s. Mustafa Saied, a former student at the University of Tennessee, says that he was a member of the radical Muslim group the Muslim Brotherhood while at the university. He also told the Wall Street Journal that in the 1990s, charitable donations to the Annoor Mosque, which is located near the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, were sent to jihad fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. But CAIR and Co. would evidently insist that there is no need to be concerned: after all, it isn’t being done any more!
The Muslim Brotherhood is hardly a benign organization. In Onward Muslim Soldiers I explore the thought of Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna, as well as that of one of its greatest exponents, Sayyid Qutb. Both of these men, whose writings are widely revered in the Islamic world even today, declare that no government, Muslim or non-Muslim, has any legitimacy unless it obeys Islamic law. They exhort Muslims to wage armed jihad against those that do not. Modern-day terrorist groups worldwide, including Hamas and Al-Qaeda, can trace their lineage back to the Muslim Brotherhood. But until now, it hasn’t been widely known that the Brotherhood had made its way to the state of the Grand Old Opry.
Rather predictably, no one knew about all this. According to KnoxNews, Rosalind Gwynne, the University of Tennessee’s faculty adviser to the Muslim Student Association chapter, expressed surprise to hear that the Brotherhood was operating on campus. Hanan Ayesh, founder of an Islamic school connected to the mosque, said: "I’ve lived here for 30 years, and this is the first time I ever heard about it." Mostafa Alsharif, another Knoxville Muslim, added: "The majority of Muslims in the United States couldn't care less about the Muslim Brotherhood. They’re going to stay in the United States. There’s no need to be affiliated with something like that. . . . It’s not the reality of what’s happening in Knoxville today at all."
Tennessee was by no means the only American site of jihadist activity."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053152/posts "GUESS WHO HAS SADDAM'S "NON-EXISTENT" WMD?"
THE SUN, United Kingdom ^ | By TREVOR KAVANAGH
Posted on 01/07/2004 1:12:22 AM PST by Traianus
"Syria nuke threat"
By TREVOR KAVANAGH Political Editor
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SYRIA’S President Assad yesterday warned he will NEVER scrap terror weapons as long as Israel has nukes.
The vow supported fears his country — named by America as part of the Axis of Evil — has a chemical and biological weapons stockpile.
British-educated Assad said: “It is not difficult to get most of these weapons anywhere in the world and they can be obtained at any time.”
The leader, who worked in the UK as an eye specialist, is believed to be pro-western.
But he is a puppet head of state who risks being toppled if he ignores hardliners.
His weak position was revealed in a Daily Telegraph interview when he refused to condemn suicide bomb attacks on Israel."
CAIR, MSA and a bunch of others are TERRORIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS.
Campuses are a hotbed of activity including recruitment and fundraising.