Monday, February 07, 2005

The local press here in Dallas has been focusing quite a bit on Islamists in our neighborhoods. This was on the front page of the Dallas News the other day:

Anti-U.S. materials found at mosques

Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque in Richardson acknowledged that Wahhabi materials have been brought into his mosque – among scores of publications on display there – but he said he rejects the Wahhabi teachings....

But in the imam's defense:

The presence of the materials hardly makes the Richardson mosque an outpost of Wahhabi theology, Imam Kavakci said. He has had to explain to his members that some of the Saudi material does not represent his understanding of Islam.

"The Saudi approach is a problem," he said. "It's a problem for me, here."


Meanwhile, prominently featured on tonight's 10 o'clock news:

VIOLENCE-PREACHING WEB MAGAZINE LINKED TO N. TEXAS BROTHERS HEADED TO TERROR TRIAL

A radical Islamist web magazine published here, which has encouraged suicide attacks against American forces in Iraq, is hosted by a North Texas Internet company linked to three Palestinian brothers about to be tried on federal terrorism charges in Dallas, CBS-11 News has learned.

On TV, they showed video of some little Arab kid in England saying over and over that it was the Jews who did 9/11 as all his little buddies stood around laughing.

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