Some American Mosques Carry Extremist Tracts

Wall Street Journal

January 28, 2005

Some American Mosques Carry Extremist Tracts, Study Says

The print edition of the Wall Street Journal today carries on pg. B5 an advance report of a Freedom House study on Saudi mosques in the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Mosques across the U.S. continue to carry books and pamphlets describing non-Muslims as ‘infidels’ and promoting intolerance against Western society, according to a forthcoming study by Freedom House, a U.S. human-rights group.

Despite vows from American Islamic leaders after Sept. 11, 2001, to proselytize peacefully, New York based Freedom House researchers found 57 documents with incendiary material in more than a dozen mosques and Islamic centers in six states and Washington, D.C., visited over the past year.

The materials ‘demonstrate the ongoing indoctrination of Muslims in the United States in the hostility and belligerence of Saudi Arabia’s hardline Wahhabi sect of Islam,’ says the report, an advance copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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