What a great post! Thanks for the news, especially since it is not available from the source. I hope it's not pulled on FR, too.
I would like to add some observations. While much of what I see here is quite accurate and perceptive, there are a few points that are weak. I picked up an anniversary souvenir book on mosques around the world at the local library, a "free book" that was getting recycled. In it, some interesting distinctions about the Mohammedan false religion are clarified for me. Perhaps you would like to know about them.
For one, when they say, "mosque," they are not necessarily talking about a dedicated building. For a Mohammedan, a mosque can be any building. It is merely a place where they congregate for common prayer. The Mohammedans are obliged to pray privately practically all the time, so they say, but sometimes they gather together in one place to pray in common. The "mosque" can be a warehouse, a cave, a library, a house, a barn, a gymnasium, or even an abandoned church.
Since Mohammedans do not conduct any ritual sacrifice or rite in their houses of worship, they don't need any church-like structure with anything resembling an altar or such things. I had often wondered why pictures of mosque interiors are so stark and empty-looking. Also, they think of statues or pictures as being distracting to the prayer of those who assemble, therefore, they don't have any such reminders of people or events inside. Ironically, they do have such phrases as "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet" hidden in the ornate filigree around doorways and other architectural elements. I don't know how they can say that doesn't remind them of a person: Mohammed.
It seems odd to me that this religion, based on the teaching of Mohammed, is often called something other than Mohammedanism.
They also consider incense a distraction against prayer, so they don't use it in a mosque. When you go inside a mosque, there is an abiding locker room-like smell hanging around. That comes from the fact that Mohammedans do not change their clothes much, which they wear in layers to protect them from the heat of the desert climates to which they are indiginous. They use the draped garments as a form of natural air-conditioning, so that perspiration and/or other added moisture can evaporate to effect cooling. It's a pretty cost-effective way to stay cool! But it has its drawbacks, I suppose: without any incense allowed, the mosque retains the abiding smell of body odor.
One more thing. They say in this souvenir book that their great goal is to promote world peace and the unity of man. Then, elsewhere in the book they assure the reader, whoever it might be, that unity of man is attainable only by worldwide embrace of Mohammedanism, because it must be that all other religions are subservient to it. (Is that why they kill Christians in the Sudan?) This "mosques around the world" issue celebrates the steady advance of their religion into all nations of the world, through the construction of mosqes, some of which are depicted on its pages.
But if they don't need a dedicated building, what is the real purpose of building "mosques" all over the world? The book does not explain.