January 13, 2007

Australia Acts Against Extremism: Vetoes Saudi Money for Mosque Construction

This is one important strategy to use in opposing radical jihad. From The Australian:

Canberra vetoes mosque

ISLAMIC leaders are demanding an explanation from Foreign Minister Alexander Downer after plans for the Saudi Government to invest in the construction of an Adelaide mosque were vetoed by Canberra.

The Foreign Minister revealed yesterday that the Government objected to a proposal for Saudi cash to be injected into development of the new mosque, which is believed to be located at Park Holme in Adelaide's southern suburbs.

Mr Downer said federal authorities had also been investigating broad concerns on funding sourced from the Middle East after concerns that mosques could become breeding grounds for extremists.

"Obviously we don't want to see any extremist organisation penetrate into Australia," he said.

Let's review just a few recent events that show how reasonable this policy is.

An undercover investigation in England has revealed preachers in the most "moderate" mosques, calling for Muslims to overthrow British law and install Sharia law:

An undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of Islamic extremism at a number of Britain's leading mosques and Muslim institutions, including an organisation praised by the Prime Minister.

Secret video footage reveals Muslim preachers exhorting followers to prepare for jihad, to hit girls for not wearing the hijab, and to create a 'state within a state'. Many of the preachers are linked to the Wahhabi strain of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia, which funds a number of Britain's leading Islamic institutions.

A forthcoming Channel 4 Dispatches programme paints an alarming picture of how preachers in some of Britain's most moderate mosques are urging followers to reject British laws in favour of those of Islam. Leaders of the mosques have expressed concern at the preachers' activities, saying they were unaware such views were being disseminated.

A "prominent Ohio Muslim leader" - an imam formerly based in Cleveland - has just been deported due to his links to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Also in America, CAIR has recently supported taxi-drivers who refuse service to non-Muslims:

Islamic taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are refusing passengers carrying alcohol and blind folks with seeing-eye dogs because the animals' saliva is sacrilege according to Sharia law.

The enterprising Muslims during the past year have stranded 100 passengers a month, sometimes for more than an hour, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission, since three-fourths of the 900 taxi drivers servicing the airport are Somali Muslims who have decided to participate in the new discipline.

To make matters worse, a local outreach director of the ever-obliging Council on American-Islamic Relations, Damon Drake, dismissed the issue, saying, "Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be accommodated."

"Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be accommodated," says CAIR, in backing up taxi drivers who strand people at airports for not following Sharia law.

We should be banning Saudi money to mosques in America too.