Your assessment seems like a bit of a stretch since I can’t recall any of them being linked to international terrorists organizations. Well…maybe Nixon with that Republican Party thing.

Seems to be enough evidence on where funding is coming for some of the more radical adventurers in the United States. Think I also provided enough sources to show a connection that some mosques happen to actually be questionable. That is really the whole issue and not a avoidance diversion off topic. Again, if someone wishes to post an article of the excesses of the right to life crowd I will gladly join in. I would also wonder where some of the funding comes from regarding some of the more domestic Christian cults. Another topic.

GHL Here are the FACTS on the number of mosques. Glad to provide you with the information.

http://www.aina.org/news/20080213165617.htm
http://www.islamfortoday.com/historyusa4.htm
http://www.allied-media.com/AM/

Timothy Mc Veigh Catholic
Richard Nixon Quaker
Ted Kaczynski Catholic
Ted Bundy Mormon
Chalres Manson Scientologist
Gary Gilmore Mormon
Jeffrey Dahmer Church of Christ (Stone-Campbell sect)
John Wayne Gacy Jr. Catholic
John Wilkes Booth Episcopal
Charles Keating Jr. Catholic
Billy Sol Estes Disciples of Christ
James Earl Ray Catholic
Al Capone Catholic
Leopold and Loeb Jewish

The conclusion: religion in general is a training ground for criminals. This is an extension of your logic, BOGO.

Have you figured out the number of mosques yet? On your source – Wiki – there is also a section of domestic terrorists activities. I see that in the case I mentioned – one of many available – it appears to be the FBI dropping the ball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

Here is a list of attacks in the U.S.

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AmericanAttacks.htm

How about The Lackawanna Six?

How about Zazi? Maybe or maybe not?

Of course the Ft. Hood shooter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB125778227582138829.html

Now a simple search will show a number of sites that proclaim a connection to terrorists and mosques. I have provided some earlier but to do so on my part is a waste of time since none will meet your standards.

Now are all mosques a center of radical activity? Of course not. Are some? IMO there is enough evidence to support that.

Reference the Brooklyn News article:

The first paragraph:

“Muslims living and worshipping in Downtown are refuting an FBI report that Adnan Shukrijumah, a top al-Qaeda terrorist leader, sprouted from Atlantic Avenue’s close knit Islamic community and worshipped in a neighborhood mosque where his father was an imam.”

The third paragraph:

“Yet the FBI isn’t backing away from its claims that the Saudi Arabian-born Shukrijumah, 35, spent a large portion of his adolescence in Downtown Brooklyn.”

Let’s see. The writer of the article claims that the FBI report has this Shukrijumah “sprouting” from the close-knit Islamic community and “worshiping” at the mosque where his father was an imam.

But the third paragraph reveals ONLY that Shukrijumah is accused by the FBI of having “spent a large part of his adolescence in Downtown Brooklyn.”

LOTS of people spent their adolescence in Downtown Brooklyn and went on to do bad things, I am thinking. But how does the writer of the article get from that to sprouting and worshiping?

And there is a lot of discrepancy about dates.

Shukrijumah was born in 1975. According to the wiki article on him, he left the United States in 2001 from Florida, where he had been living and going to college; that would be at the age of 26. And according to the NY Daily News article referenced in the Brooklyn News report,

“Adnan Shukrijumah, whose dad was a Brooklyn imam and who was raised for 15 years in a Miami suburb, takes his orders directly from Bin Laden.”

So, he was 26 when he left the US and was raised for 15 years in Florida. How does that leave him time to have spent a “large amount” of his adolescence at the mosque in New York?

Could it possibly be that most of the people who were asked about him in Brooklyn are telling the truth? From the time line it looks as though he left the NY area at about age 11. Could it be that the FBI report is crap? Could it be that the Brooklyn News article is crap?

But the real point here is that there is no evidence that these US mosques are training grounds for would-be terrorists. Certainly this person was around the mosques growing up, but that does not mean that the mosque had one damned thing to do with making him what he is today. Certainly it’s likely that people associated with the mosques were at least in part responsible for his taking the path he did, but that is not the same as saying that the mosques are training grounds.

That is sort of the equivalent of saying that the Catholic Church in Ireland was the training ground for such people as Gerry Adams, the leader of the Provos.