In several prior postings, I wrote that I am generally opposed to the construction of mosques here in my backyard (NH) given the nature of the new world war in which we find ourselves and the M/O of our enemy. As I’ve repeated over and over: there’s always a mosque. That’s where the radical ideology gets spread. Our enemies don’t need to send their armies- all they do is send the ideology and spread it to receptive minds already here. There is potential for the rise of so-called "homegrown" terrorists that need not worry about how to sneak into the country- they’re already here. And they always meet at the local mosque…
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This is not only a problem for us here in America. The Agencie Presse France reports on the recent failed German train bombing attempt (H/T Little Green Footballs):
German authorities have said they have now identified the second of two suspects behind a failed plot to bomb passenger trains but have failed to capture him despite a massive manhunt..The spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor’s office, Frauke-Katrin Scheuten, said Tuesday the suspect had last lived in an apartment in the western German city of Cologne, where two men were captured on security cameras July 31 planting suitcases packed with bombs on regional trains..The bombs were set to detonate 10 minutes before their arrival in the western cities of Hamm near Dortmund and Koblenz, but a technical fault prevented an almost certain bloodbath.
This is the part that caught my attention:
The online version of newsweekly Der Spiegel said that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence service, was following a lead to a mosque in the northern city of Hamburg because Youssef Mohammed E.H. had a poster of the institution hanging in his dormitory in Kiel..The Imam Ali Mosque is believed to be a meeting point for supporters of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah..A spokesman for the mosque denied any contact with Youssef Mohammed E.H. "We do not know this person at all," he said..Spiegel said that investigators did not see a direct link between the bombing plot and the mosque but hoped to learn more about the suspects by probing its activities.Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel reported that some of Youssef Mohammed E. H.’s relatives had links to the banned Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and that the 21-year-old was believed to have been radicalized by the organization, which strives to create an Islamic state.
An Islamic state that tolerates Christian Churches and Jewish Synagogues? Probably not…
