One of my favorite thinkers and authors is Michael Ledeen. His recent book, The War Against the Terror Masters, demonstrates his knowledge and understanding of our war against the Islamofascists. Ledeen’s latest column takes up the same point I made in yesterday’s posting about the potential dangers posed by the presence of a mosque. In the June 22nd National Review Online he writes:
It’s interesting that British jihadis came to Queens to recruit Americans — and no doubt some of them, fully trained in slaughter, have returned to these shores — but the important thing is the mosque. Because there’s always a mosque, as my Italian friend Magdi Allam has been repeating for several years. Not all mosques are jihadi, but all jihadis come from a mosque.Look at the 9/11 terrorists, look at the killer of Daniel Pearl, and you will find well-off, educated men who became radicalized in a mosque. And I’ll bet you a good-sized farm that if we ever get to the bottom of 9/11 we’ll discover that mosques were central in maintaining contact with and discipline over the terrorists.
So mosques can be very dangerous places when the local imam preaches jihadism, as is done in the thousands of Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi mosques all over the world, including the United States.
Indeed they are. Click here to read the entire piece.
