SALLY MORRIS: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
We spend a lot of time in this country flogging ourselves over misperceived unfairness. We overcompensate for believed injustice, ususally in the past. We do a lot of this at the expense of good people who have absolutely no racist thoughts or motives, we punish innocent people or try to, for wrongs said to have been done by ancestors they never even knew in a time none of us today knows. Yet, we turn a blind eye to those among us who wish us real harm based on religious prejudice.
In 2011, David Yerushalmi and Mordecai Kedar published findings after extensive research throughout the United States. Kedar was an assistant professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies in Israel while Yerushalmi was an experienced attorney in the United States. So what did they find? Only that about 80% of U.S. mosques have been providing worshippers with jihad materials and instruction for violence against "non-believers" and materials supporting Sharia, in a study sponsored by the Center for Security Policy, a non-partisan, non-profit organization. That was back in 2011.
Today's Jihad Watch tells us that another study, this one by Dave Gaubatz, a former FBI agent with special qualifications as an Arabic speaker and intelligence/counter intelligence expert. What did Gaubatz find? His study of 300 U.S. mosques and 150 abroad revealed that 1) violent acts have been committed by those who have ties to certain mosques and 2) that there is reason to expect to see more of this based on the teachings of these imams in these mosques. What are they teaching? Here are a few suggestions for worshippers: treason and sedition against the U.S.; physical violence against Americans at home and abroad; slavery; implementation in America of Sharia - by force if necessary; rape of women and girls; child marriage in America; violence against wives of Muslim men and finally, Sharia punishments.
Gaubatz makes recommendations to combat this threat and we should take them seriously. Please read the report from Mr. Gaubatz. He is the "expert from 200 miles away" we should be listening to.