http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=204613By Michael Carl
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COLOGNE, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 20: Mario Borghezio, member of european parliament, sits below the symbol of the far right Pro Koeln on September 20, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. The far right Pro Koeln expected for the rally 1500 people. This rally should place as an part of the two days international congress against islam which has been organised by members of the far-right Pro-Koeln. The sympathizer protest against the construction of a mosque in the city. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
The proposed Ground Zero mosque in New York City has been a focal point for those wanting to expand Islam's influence in America, but it's not the only front on which the nation is facing the advance of Muslim interests.
There are more than 3,000 mosques in the U.S., and work is being done on several major projects that have neighbors alarmed to the point of resistance.
One of the hot-button mosques is the proposed Temecula Valley Islamic Center. Land for the project was purchased several years ago, but a number of people in the Southern California town have an organized campaign to derail the project.
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Opponents have held signs on street corners, and a number of the protesters say their concerns include many facets other than being "anti-Muslim."
One of the leading spokesmen for the mosque opponents is Mano Bakh, who fled Iran 30 years ago after the Shia-backed Iranian Islamic Revolution
Bakh believes it's appropriate to oppose the mosque because there are two sides to Islam.
"The main reason is that there are two segments to Islam, the thing that calls itself a religion. One is the religious part of it to pray and the other one is to Shariah law, the way of life," Bakh explained.
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Posted: September 20, 2010
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By Michael Carl
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COLOGNE, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 20: Mario Borghezio, member of european parliament, sits below the symbol of the far right Pro Koeln on September 20, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. The far right Pro Koeln expected for the rally 1500 people. This rally should place as an part of the two days international congress against islam which has been organised by members of the far-right Pro-Koeln. The sympathizer protest against the construction of a mosque in the city. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
The proposed Ground Zero mosque in New York City has been a focal point for those wanting to expand Islam's influence in America, but it's not the only front on which the nation is facing the advance of Muslim interests.
There are more than 3,000 mosques in the U.S., and work is being done on several major projects that have neighbors alarmed to the point of resistance.
One of the hot-button mosques is the proposed Temecula Valley Islamic Center. Land for the project was purchased several years ago, but a number of people in the Southern California town have an organized campaign to derail the project.
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Opponents have held signs on street corners, and a number of the protesters say their concerns include many facets other than being "anti-Muslim."
One of the leading spokesmen for the mosque opponents is Mano Bakh, who fled Iran 30 years ago after the Shia-backed Iranian Islamic Revolution
Bakh believes it's appropriate to oppose the mosque because there are two sides to Islam.
"The main reason is that there are two segments to Islam, the thing that calls itself a religion. One is the religious part of it to pray and the other one is to Shariah law, the way of life," Bakh explained.
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"We have no problem with the praying part of Islam. What we have a problem with is preaching what is in Shariah law," Bakh continued.
However, the former Iranian citizen and author who has shared his story in his biography, "Escaping Islam," says the community is willing to extend an olive branch.
"We have given a pledge of friendship to the imam. We say, 'If you really claim that you're a moderate and inclined to moderation in Islam,' sign it," Bakh said.
However, he continued with some harsh words of clarification.
"Don't say you're a moderate Muslim if you're going to preach the same hatred from the Quran and Islam and Shariah law. He has to sign it and build a pledge of friendship," Bakh stated.
The olive branch isn't only for the imam at the Temecula Valley project.
"We would love to have all the imams across the country in the United States sign it, acknowledge it, that you're a moderate. The reason is simple. In Islam, there is no moderation. You may find a moderate Muslim, but you cannot [find] moderation within the religion that they claim," Bakh explained.
"We in California, in America, because we want the people to understand more, we have organized a night of education on September 20 at 7 p.m. We have invited several hundred people to come and understand the truth of our position, to understand what we think Islam and the mosque should be and what they want to use the mosque for. That's two different things," Bakh continued.
"In my past, I have been a Muslim apostate and wrote about it in my book, 'Escaping Islam,'" he added.
"In Islam there are five pillars of Islam. If you believe in the five pillars, you're a Muslim. Those five pillars have nothing to do with the background, has nothing to do with wife-beating, has nothing to do with Shariah," Bakh stated.
"We are concerned that they are going to preach hate. That's why they're not calling it a mosque, they're calling it an Islamic Education Center. What they're going to teach is hate, and killing the infidel," Bakh asserted.
Bakh stated in an interview with Southern California Public Radio that he favors taking away civil liberties from Muslims as long as they promote values contrary to the U. S. Constitution.
The proposed Islamic Education Center will go before a city planning board in November.
A proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has attracted media attention because the project has been greeted with organized protests. Mosque opponents say they don't want the 15-acre site to be a training center for militants who may go on suicide bomb missions.
One report alleges that anti-mosque feeling may have been the motive for an act of arson earlier this month at the proposed mosque site. Federal authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information on the alleged arson.
Other mosques around the country have been getting similar attention, although the levels of opposition vary.
A source in St. Joseph, Mo., who does not want to be identified says the proposed mosque project in that community isn't drawing public protests. The opposition in the Missouri city about an hour north of Kansas City is coming mostly from blog posts and e-mail campaigns.
Another mosque opened in the affluent Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn, Pa. The Washington Post reported that the Pennsylvania mosque has good relations with its neighbors and opened with little, if any, attention from the media.
The stories of cordial relationships would seem to counter the aggressive anti-mosque position of the protesters. However, the stories of peace and harmony between the mosque and the community don't seem to square with reality.
American Family Association policy analyst Bryan Fischer says 80 percent of the mosques being built are funded by Middle Eastern money. Most are also acting as training academies.
"Every single mosque is potentially a training and recruiting center for jihadism. We know that 80 percent of the mosques in America are built with Saudi money. The Saudi Arabian government is sending education materials to these mosques that teach them to spill the blood of infidel Christians and Jews," Fischer explained.
"That means that 80 percent of the mosques in America are inculcating and disseminating this totalitarian anti-Semitic ideology. I've seen estimates that there may be as many as 3,000 mosques in the United States. That means that perhaps 2,400 of them are preaching this kind of ideology," Fischer added.
As a matter of doctrine, Islam preaches the establishment of the ummah, a greater community of followers of Islam. Brigitte Gabriel writes in her book "They Must Be Stopped" that every Muslim wants to see the ummah fulfilled.
Author Gregory Davis adds in his work "Islam 101" that the imposition of Shariah law is the non-optional, ultimate objective of all Muslims.
Bryan Fischer says that these goals mean that the local imam may be guilty of treason.
"This ideology is treasonous at its core. Andrew McCarthy has written about the Muslim Brotherhood and then there's the Muslim American Society mosque in Boston. The Muslim American Society is one of the offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their explicit strategy explained in the memo they circulated in 1991 is to exterminate and destroy Western Civilization from within," Fischer explained.
"So every time we allow a mosque to go up in one of our communities, it's like planting an improvised explosive device right in the heart of your city and we have no idea when one of these devices is going to go off," Fischer continued.
"The one thing we can be sure of is that eventually, one or more of them will," he added.
Fischer believes that the best way to slow down the progress of jihad in the U.S. is for Americans to get educated about Islam, then to take an interest in the local government.
"Well, you appeal to the zoning commission or the board that issues building permits. You just lay out the ideology of Islam. Just lay it out for these local decision makers and say, 'Look, we don't think it's a good idea to invite this ideology into our community,'" Fischer said.
"It's anti-Semitic, it relegates Christians and Jews to permanent second-class citizenship. It assigns women to second-class status. It treats wives as chattel, and property of their husbands, and they can be beaten into submission," Fischer continued.
Fischer added that the case for Islam has to be made to the local officials.
"The word permit implies that you extend that permission to some organizations and groups and you withhold it from others. I think concerned citizens just appeal to the local decision makers and say that we just think that permit ought to be withheld when we're talking about a group like Muslims," Fischer said.
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