Muslim Jihad Comes To Small Town, USA

conservative truth ^ | July 25, 2005 | Laura Mansfield

[Lorianne]

It happened again this week. I came out of the office to find a flyer under my windshield wipers inviting me to a special informational presentation on God and family values, and how to bring them back to the forefront in America.

I'm a parent, so the flyer caught my interest. But as an analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, my eyes were riveted to the address on the flyer: The session was being held at a nearby mosque.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided it would be a good time for some onsite investigations of the mosque. In order to not attract undue attention, I dressed conservatively, wearing a navy jumper with a long sleeve white blouse, and low heels. I debated whether or not to put on a hijab (head scarf) then decided not to. After all, I was going to "learn," not to pretend I was a Muslim.

I checked the mosque schedule on the Web, and discovered there was going to be an Arabic language session an hour before. So I showed up an hour early. The imam met me at the door, and told me that the presentation didn't start for an hour, and suggested I come back in an hour. Fortunately, I had anticipated this. I explained that since I had quite a bit of reading to do for a class I was taking. "Can I just sit here and read?"

He hesitated a moment, then agreed. I sat in the back of the room, with my book open, and made a mental note to remember to turn the pages every so often, as I listened to the speakers in Arabic.

The first speaker was the head of the Muslim Students' Association at the nearby university. Although I missed the beginning of the discussion, I caught up quickly. He was talking about the problems he had encountered on a recent trip, when TSA flagged him for extra screening. He joked about the fact that they had stopped him for extensive screening. He had anticipated that he would be screened and he had filled his carryon luggage with printouts of the Quran from the Internet, and had 15 or 16 CDs labeled in Arabic, and he had a notebook computer with him.

As he expected, he was delayed he thought it was very amusing that while several TSA personnel were scrutinizing his personal belongings that his classmate from Jordan was able to walk through security, along with his American girlfriend, without any problems whatsoever.

One of the men said, in Arabic: "Blonde Americans are good for something!" Another man advised him to be cautious, since there was an American woman in the room. The imam spoke up and told everyone I didn't speak Arabic.

At that point, another student took the podium. His name was Khaled, and he began to recount his recent trip to New York City. Khaled and three of his companions had gone to New York for several days in January. He told of how uncomfortable his trip up to NYC had been. He felt like he was being watched, and thought he was the victim of racial profiling.

Khaled and his friends were pretty unhappy about it, and while in New York, they came up with a plan to "teach a lesson" to the passengers and crew. You can imagine the story Khaled told. He described how he and his friends whispered to each other on the flight, made simultaneous visits to the restroom, and generally tried to "spook" the other passengers. He laughed when he described how several women were in tears, and one man sitting near him was praying.

The others in the room thought the story was quite amusing, judging from the laughter. The imam stood up and told the group that this was a kind of peaceful civil disobedience that should be encouraged, and commended Khaled and his friends for their efforts.

He pointed out that it was through this kind of civil disobedience that ethnic profiling would fail.

One of the other men, Ahmed from Kuwait, gave a brief account of his friend Eyad, who had finally gone to Iraq. Ahmed was in e-mail contact with Eyad, and hoped by the following week to be able to bring them more information about the state of the "mujahideen" in Iraq.

As the meeting drew to a close, the imam gave a brief speech calling for the protection of Allah on the mujahideen fighting for Islam throughout the world, and reminded everyone that it was their duty as Muslims to continue in the path of jihad, whether it was simple efforts like those of Khaled and his friends, or the actual physical fighting of men like Eyad.

As the meeting broke up, several women in hijabs came in the room, and two of them sat with me. They were very warm and friendly and welcoming, and appeared to be clearly thrilled that I was there. They asked me questions about who I was, and why I was interested in the session.

By the time the session began, there were half a dozen American women, four of them African-American. Where the previous session had definite anti-American tones, this session was all American and Apple Pie. The earlier session had been in Arabic this one was in English.

The woman leading the session, Nafisa, told of the concerns she had regarding her daughters in the public-school system. She complained about the influence of the MTV culture, and seemed concerned about the rampant sexuality that pervaded all facets of American life, from television to movies and on into the school system.

She explained her personal solution -­ the local Islamic school, beginning with kindergarten. Instead of worrying about her daughters dressing provocatively and behaving inappropriately with boys, she talked about the modest school uniforms they wore, and the single-gender classes her daughters attended.

She then began to discuss Islam, focusing on the commonalities it has with Christianity. The sales pitch had clearly begun. While in the previous section, the men had quoted over and over again sura from the Quran calling for violent jihad, the women's session focused on the "gentler" side of Islam.

The same imam who demanded that the men continue in the path of jihad did a complete 180-degree turn in this session, stressing instead the suras that promoted the "brotherhood" between Muslims, Christians and Jews. "After all, we worship the same God, and follow the teachings in the books he gave each of us. We are all the same, we are all People of the Book," he stressed.

The differences between the sessions were striking. Clearly the second session was a recruiting session.

Were the women aware of what was being taught in the first session? Certainly those women who spoke Arabic should have been.

The reason for concern is obvious: Two different doctrines are being promoted. One peaceful, friendly, warm and fuzzy doctrine is being used to draw people in, with a focus on the wellbeing of their children.

But the Arabic-speaking sessions clearly have an anti-American tone.

It shows clearly that as much as we'd like to pretend it hasn't, jihad has reached Small-Town, USA. This mosque isn't in Washington, D.C., or New York City. This is a small mosque in a small town in the deep South.

And if it's in this tiny little quiet southern town, it's probably in your hometown, too.

[Laura Mansfield is a freelance writer with over 20 years of experience dealing with Middle East issues. She is fluent in written and spoken Arabic, and has an excellent understanding of the complex cultural, religious and historical issues. Her experience includes nearly seven years living and working in the region for a wide range of private and government clients.]

[shankbear]

If they are commiting terrorists activities in this country, get them out of here. They are not needed. The Dhimms are weak on even finding the terrorists in our own country, much less using whatever projection of force is necessary when known enclaves overseas are found. I am not a round em all up and shoot em kind of person nor am I one that believes that you can convert a rabidly radical Islamist.

[navyguy]

Read "Terrorist Hunter" by Anonymous. This stuff happens exactly as described in this article.

[navyguy]

Fantastic book. Should be required reading in every high school.

[orionblamblam]

> I am not a round em all up and shoot em kind of person ...

Post 18 implies something quite different. You implied rounding up and shooting/deporting *all* Muslims. Who would be next on the list?

[NoFoxholeAthiests]

This is a great article. An even better expose of what
actually is being spoken in the average American mosque
is the PBS special, "Terrorists Among us: Jihad In America"
by Steve Emerson (who is now in hiding like Salmon Rusdie)

This book (and DVD) shows what is being preached by our
friendly peace loving Muslims next door. It shows how the
local mosque has become the center for spreading the
virulent ideology of Islamo-fascism and amassing the
funding necessary to support this ideology. MUST READ!

[Honestfreedom]

She had a huge advantage in letting them believe she did not understand what they were saying. Why should she give it up? The only thing suspicious is that the Imam let her sit there during the "private meeting". I would think they are more paranoid than that.

[shankbear]

You added the *all* fastfingers. I was referring to the terrorists. All the Muzlim terrorists. Don't try to infer what I meant.

[Honestfreedom]

Yup they are getting the police and others so used to false alarms that they will be too jaded to see the real thing when it happens.

[Gritty]

Why we are still permitting these subversive b@st@rds to immigrate into this country is beyond me. Why we are still giving them green cards and visas is beyond me. Why we are allowing Saudi Arabia to fund thousands of mosques here (while they completely prohibit Christianity in Arabia) is beyond me.

A lot of things are beyond me.

One thing that is not beyond me and as obvious as the nose on my face is Islam is a mortal threat to America, our culture and society. It should be treated like we treated Communism and it's adherents when it was a mortal threat.

This article once again demonstrates how deceptive and subversive it really is.

[orionblamblam]

> You added the *all* fastfingers. I was referring to the terrorists.

No. You were referring to the "Muzzies." You did not differentiate.

"The Muzzies use profiling to accomplish their needs. Muzzies have accounted for the huge majority of all terrorist attacks and deaths. They murder civilians whether children or helpless old people. NO GOD or religion would justify that crap. Root them out and kill/deport them."

[LeoWindhorse]

I strongly feel that the Constitution needs to be amended to
reflect that 'cults' like islam cannot claim the rights of true religions.
Thereafter the US should place a ban upon the practice of islam within the United States .
Those that wish to practice islam should be encouraged to go live elsewhere.
They CANNOT HAVE OUR COUNTRY !

As this article points out , many of them are evil ,lying,duplicitous, two-faced bastards.
Accompanied by mindless drones as their female companions.
In WW2 , would we have allowed active German Nazi's to live openly among us? To preach and proselytize for Nazism ?
How about Bushido Samurai ? No, of course not. Yet today apparently the door is wide open for any enemy ilk that want to openly infiltrate and challenge us here at home.
This isn't right.

[BaBaStooey]

I thought this was fascinating, from the standpoint that these guys had no idea that the non-threatening lady in the back could understand every word.

But, despite the candid conversation, which was a gold mine, these guys still sound like a bunch of wannabe terrorists. It would have been more fascinating had they actually discussed some sort of plan they were hatching, and the lady got on the horn with Homeland Security and put them away. That would have been more thrilling. But it was an interesting look into the mind of Akmed Q. Wannabe-Terrorist.

[shankbear]

read it again orion.......Muzzies have accounted for the huge majority of all terrorist attacks. Read it. Simple as that. round up every muz terrorist and kill em/deport em.

Don't read in what you want to read in. Like it or not, aside from McVeigh at Oklahoma City, almost 100% of all terrorist attacks in the US or against US interests worldwide have been done by the terrorists of the Religion of Peace....Islam. Who would you most expect the next attack to come from??/???

[backhoe]

Well, I've been trying to wake people up to the menace to the West for many years:
( Notice anything familiar about that salute? )

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Picture, and scroll backwards:

Better look up your local mosque

...and the barbarians are already inside our gates. ...and at our neighbour's gates, as well:

Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )-- Click the picture:

Not to mention this other little problem:

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

_________________
( Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, etc., etc...)

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Picture, and scroll backwards:

[Blue Jays]

Hi shankbear-

You're beating your head against the wall with some FReepers who have politically-correct leanings. I always love when apologists trot out the LONE example of Timothy McVeigh when plotted against THOUSANDS of violent and atrocious acts committed by Muslim terrorists.

~ Blue Jays ~

[PghBaldy]

Too bad she didn't tape it. I do believe people are playing us for fools, and there needs to be harsher punishment (assuming there are any) for people doing these things on planes and airports. If this is true, people are weakening how defenses by overloading them.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This story has been posted several times before on FR over the past year.

I applaud you for bringing it back to the top again. It needs to be read and understood by everyone.

We must reject Satan and all his works. We shall not become dhimma.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wonder how they will portray the terrorists?

From what I've read of the advance screenings...not well. Surprisingly.

[shankbear]

Yep, some are really not worth the effort of pressing down on the keys on my laptop. Thanks.

[papertyger]

I think I don't understand your question. It makes no sense to me. There was specific evidence from many different trusted sources about the existence of weapons and weapons programs.

Trusted by whom? Certainly there are many that would just as easily discount your trusted sources as you've discounted the author...and do so with equivalent conjectures.

There are many good and satisfying reasons to give the writer at least tacit credibility if for no other reason than she has a measure of public exposure to be mindful of.