DAR AL HARB - U.S.A.: THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING OVERTIME TO ISLAMIZE THE UNITED STATES

State Dept. invites radical imams into U.S.

Hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist clerics have been allowed to enter the United States to take over mosques in major cities.

The clerics come from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan and have been influenced by al Qaeda. Many of the clerics are fresh graduates from Saudi-financed Wahhabi seminaries without any knowledge of English but who have a mandate to spread al Qaeda-type doctrine to mosques around the country, particularly in the New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Washington areas.

Law enforcement officials have been urging the federal government to monitor and control the influx of the imams amid heightened threat alerts of a possible al Qaeda attack. But the officials said the State Department succeeded in relaxing visa regulations as part of the administration's policy to promote the Saudi-sponsored Muslim agenda in the United States.

Many of the clerics have been supplied by Egypt's Al Azhar University in Cairo and by seminaries in Pakistan. Al Azhar, which is regarded as a bastion of al Qaeda supporters, has been allowed to send graduates to Muslim communities throughout the United States.

"Virtually none of these people speak English and know nothing about American culture or freedom," an official said. "Their job is to preach a very harsh Saudi-inspired fundamentalist message in Arabic."

Officials said the Bush administration has rejected proposals to regulate the flow of imams into the United States. France has sent scores of Islamic clerics back to Egypt and Morocco and require foreign applicants to be fluent in French.

"Aside from a willingness to resort to violence to compel fellow Muslims to conform to their religious and political views, radicals enjoy … critical advantages over moderate and liberal Muslims," said a Rand Corp report, entitled "Building Moderate Muslim Networks.”

"The first is money. Saudi funding for the export of the Wahhabi version of Islam over the last three decades has had the effect, whether intended or not, of promoting the growth of religious extremism throughout the Muslim world," the report said.

The influx of the foreign imams comes in the wake of the National Intelligence Estimate that warns of an increasingly violent element in the U.S. Muslim community. The U.S. intelligence report said Wahhabi ideology has become a dominant strain in many Muslim communities.

Officials said the State Department has facilitated the flow of the imams. They said the department issues visas that identify the fundamentalists as "religious guides."

"There is an administration policy to promote the Saudi Islamic agenda," the official said.

In June 2007, President Bush visited a Saudi Islamic Center in Washington as part of his "Muslim Initiative." The visit was said to have legitimized Saudi efforts to finance mosques and Islamic schools in the United States.

"I think the future is bright, because of our wisdom in dealing with the reality," said Yahya Hendi, a Palestinian imam who teaches at Georgetown University and has met with Bush. "There are serious efforts being made among the second and third generation to become part of the political establishment. The challenge we face is in the media and from some Christian extremists who don't want an Islamic presence in America."

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"We, within the FBI, are trying to break down a lot of barriers and create a different brand about the FBI within the Arab-American and Muslim American community," said Gwen Hubbard, chief of the FBI's National Recruitment and Marketing unit.





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