Atlantic Magazine Exposes Hate Ideology in US Mosques

The most under-reported story of the year so far is the Freedom House study of Saudi-funded mosques in the United States, in which numerous examples of shocking, murderous hate speech and Islamic supremacism were discovered.

Saudi Arabia has long been generous to Muslims in America. Not only does the House of Saud supply funding to build mosques in the United States, but it provides a wealth of religious literature to stock those mosques' libraries and study halls. What does that literature say? The usual anti-Semitic slurs are recycled (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, for instance, is treated as a historical document in Saudi-donated textbooks)

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Mainstream media took a quick look at the study, yawned, then decided their time was best spent chasing runaway brides. Not one newspaper or TV station tried to follow up the Freedom House report with further investigations. The topic of an Islamic fifth column, spreading hate propaganda in the US, is not even on the media's radar.

The current edition of Atlantic Online has a short reminder that radical Islam is very much alive in the mosques of America: Primary Sources. The rest of America's media couldn't care less.

Saudi Arabia has long been generous to Muslims in America. Not only does the House of Saud supply funding to build mosques in the United States, but it provides a wealth of religious literature to stock those mosques' libraries and study halls. What does that literature say? Representatives from the human-rights organization Freedom House spent a year sampling Saudi-supplied literature at mosques in major American cities, and encountered a variety of troubling texts.

Among other things, Muslims are urged to avoid befriending Jews and Christians; to treat their time in the United States as they would a trip behind enemy lines; to revile Sufism, Shia, and other non- Wahhabi variants of Islam; to rob and inflict violence on Muslims who engage in homosexual acts; and to kill Muslims who convert to other faiths.

The usual anti-Semitic slurs are recycled (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, for instance, is treated as a historical document in Saudi-donated textbooks), and many of the publications urge that women be required to wear veils and banned from various jobs. The report allows that most of these documents were supplied in the 1980s and 1990s, and that the government of Saudi Arabia claims to be "updating" its books and study materials. But the researchers add that the titles in question remain "widespread and plentiful" in the United States, and continue to be used in the education of Muslims here.

And such folks are our long-standing "allies"

Story Credits: Freedom House and The Atlantic