I went to over to Yahoo groups last night after reading Granny's post. I clicked on the "other" or "hobbies & interests" group. Can't honestly remember which. I found lots of muslim forums with links to other sites. Like Granny said, they would be in the middle of completely innocent looking forums. I found one in a group with what looked like arab sportscar enthusiasts and a group of guys that liked to show off their American 4 x 4's by driving up huge sand dunes. That one really cracked me up. You see, I live in the south, and when I think of off-road sports, turbans just don't generally come to mind. Granny seems to be rather well informed.
re: 8959
If you spent as many nights searching Yahoo Groups, looking for a subject to catch your interest, as I have, you too would have caught the same things as I did.
After I joined 100's of groups, I discovered that the open archives often told me what was in the group, often you will find only one message worth having and it can be forwarded from the group to your email, even if you are not a member.
I went to y.groups this morning and tried : Health & Wellness, then Alternative Medicine, then Herbal Medicine.
found: ixora (sehat bersama) Which may be about a plant used in herbals, I can't read the messages, but there appears to be a meeting on the 11th.
The one that caught my interest was the second on the list:
herb n muslims:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/herbnmuslims/message76
owner: Kristie Karima Burns MH, ND
addresses: Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Other warning bells:
Owns several groups and web sites, the two groups that I saw, appear to have started on 9-8-2001, with the above having the first letter in the file removed.
The info that I saw was rather basic, like Peppermint tea for stomach aches. Yes, it works.
She also runs an on-line herbal school ($300.00) and a muslim homeschool set up.
BUT, she also has many links to donate money for others tuition. It reads "Donate any amount to the "Student in need scholarship fund".
With as many sites as she has, it could be that she is collecting a lot of money. Or she may simply be doing what I might have been tempted to do 20 years ago, survive and share knowledge.
She is either real or fake.... In my opinion. What do you think?
Also owns: herbnhome as K. Burns to start and then later to the above name.
Thanks for that info. I never would have thought of "crafts" boards as message boards for terrorists.