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alp227

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Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:22 PM Apr 2013

Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties

Oren Dorell, USA TODAY 4:57 p.m. EDT April 23, 2013

The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.

Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque's first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.

And its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terror suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques.

The head of the group is among critics who say the mosques teach a brand of Islamic thought that encourages grievances against the West, distrust of law enforcement and opposition to Western forms of government, dress and social values.

"We don't know where these boys were radicalized," says the head of the group, Charles Jacobs. "But this mosque has a curriculum that radicalizes people. Other people have been radicalized there."

Yusufi Vali, executive director at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, insists his mosque does not spread radical ideology and cannot be blamed for the acts of a few worshipers.

"If there were really any worry about us being extreme," Vali said, U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would not partner with the Muslim American Society and the Boston mosque in conducting monthly meetings that have been ongoing for four years, he said, in an apparent reference to U.S. government outreach programs in the Muslim community.

full: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/23/boston-mosque-radicals/2101411/

But the reporter omitted the fact that the mosque expelled one of the Tsarnaev bros. for shouting down a lecture that praised Martin Luther King. This article looks like a ploy to sell papers and gain Web traffic, as who even reads USA Today (whose founder recently died) anymore?

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Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties (Original Post) alp227 Apr 2013 OP
Didn't I read warrprayer Apr 2013 #1
Yes I read it too. hrmjustin Apr 2013 #2
Yes you did. Anything coming. From USA today regard as suspect. In fact that mosque was considered still_one Apr 2013 #4
See my post below--their source is an Islamaphobic group. nt geek tragedy Apr 2013 #5
Thanks, no surprise from me still_one Apr 2013 #6
"Americans for Peace and Tolerance" is a Neo-con front group geek tragedy Apr 2013 #3

still_one

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4. Yes you did. Anything coming. From USA today regard as suspect. In fact that mosque was considered
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:33 PM
Apr 2013

Not radical from what I read

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