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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
As noted here previously, Eric Scheie of Classical Values has observed the concerns of his neighbors about a local madrassa:
I happen to live 500 or so yards away from a mosque which is part of a Saudi-funded Madrassa/school, and all kinds of weird things go on around here. Their national director was deported for terrorist activities and I wish to God they'd close the place down. Neighbors are frightened.
Eric has just posted that this madrassa is now getting national attention. It has openly violated the covenants and zoning order it agreed to in order to get permission to open, and is being described as "a threat to the surrounding community." From a Philadelphia Inquirer article linked in the Classical Values post:
Neighbors testified at the May hearing that they were especially concerned that the foundation could not provide much information on what groups used the grounds for retreats or assurances that the foundation supervised their activities.
"It gets kind of scary in terms of security and what they're doing up there," said Kent Haas, one of about 30 neighbors whose properties abut the foundation.
Exacerbating relations with neighbors were reports this year that a convicted child abuser, subsequently identified through the Pennsylvania Megan's Law Web site, had been spotted at the foundation. In addition, the foundation's Web site was discovered to link to what Greenfield said was "some material that can be construed as anti-Semitic or anti-American."
Eric concludes:
...it seems that the suspicions I voiced previously were not unwarranted.
