The Taliban vs. the Mosque (“The more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get”)

[kpete]

Source: Newsweek

The Taliban vs. the Mosque

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Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,” Taliban operative Zabihullah tells NEWSWEEK. (Like many Afghans, he uses a single name.) “It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.” <...>

Taliban officials say they’re looking forward to a new wave of terrorist trainees from the West like this year’s Times Square car bomber. “I expect we will soon be receiving more American Muslims like Faisal Shahzad who are looking for help in how to express their rage,” says a Taliban official who was a senior minister when the group ruled Afghanistan and who remains active in the insurgency. As an indication of the anger that is growing among some Muslims in the West, this official, who requested anonymity for security reasons, mentions the arrest of three Canadian Muslims in Ontario last week on charges of plotting to build and detonate improvised explosive devices. (A fourth individual was arrested in Ottawa last Friday in connection with the case.) The Ground Zero furor will likely add to that anger. “The more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get,” Zabihullah predicts.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/30/taliban-using-mosque-controversy-to-recruit.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Never mind

we can out-stupid them any time!

[iamthebandfanman]

2. well duh

which is funny since they hate the type of muslims who are building the new mosque

[backtomn]

6. Support this mosque or not.....but

This is from the religion that won't allow a non-Muslims, much less a Catholic/Protestant church or Jewish/Hindu/Buddist temple, in Mecca or Medina.......and takes away the "WRONG" type of Koran FROM MUSLIMS entering Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. Sunnis kill Shia. The Kurds are Sunnis, but not the right kind, so Saddam's Iraqi Sunnis were killing them.

I am not certain if they really need another issue to raise their ire.

We believe in freedom of religion, but also the freedom NOT to believe, if we choose. When I see that as a universal belief, I will be much happier.

My problem with the NYC mosque is that it is in the wrong place and the wrong time. The city would be very happy to have it it another place...........no matter how many jihadis will come from this.

[onpatrol98]

3. Win-Win

Build the mosque - Win
Don't build the mosque - Win
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Wow! It's hard to find a true win/win. But, I guess they feel they have it.

[Uncle Joe]

10. I disagree, should the US stick to the Constitution in regards to building Mosques, that's not

a win for the Taliban, to the contrary I see it as a direct refutation to their propaganda about religious wars.

[Edweird]

4. Oh but it's a 'cultural center' for the 'religion of peace'....

[Javaman]

8. What are you trying to say? nt

[Uncle Joe]

9. Any religion or cause can be co-opted and the Taliban recognize the propaganda value

should the US betray it's own highest Constitutional ideals and deny building one house of worship due to fear or hatred.

[truthisfreedom]

5. I met an Army intelligence officer last night, a liberal who is very sharp.

The more of this talk there is, the more jobs the Army can offer, and the more our economy improves. Rock on, crazy taliban goofballs.

[Igel]

7. By that logic, if we all converted our problem would be solved.

Gee, that's what some of *them* say.

As long as we're all on the same page.

[Matariki]

11. Wow. Newsweek has a regular hot line to the Taliban jihadists.

How convenient.