Soon-To-Be-Released Study Maps 'Shariah In America'

Documents Potential Fifth Column Mosques

Feb. 26, 2008--A nearly complete ground-breaking study has documented an alarming fact:

It appears that the majority of American mosques are operated by adherents to the doctrine of Shariah law, and in these mosques where compliance to Shariah law is observed, a violent jihadism is preached.

While the study suggests that most American Muslims do not attend either these sorts of institutions or the substantially smaller percentage that promote a peaceful, tolerant and law-abiding form of Islam, the preponderance of mosque-going Muslims in this country are being regularly exposed to a potentially violent jihadist strain of the faith.

The "Mapping Shariah" (MS) study is managed by David Yerushalmi, an accomplished attorney-litigator specializing in public policy and Shariah law, and overseen by retired career U.S. Air Force counterintelligence agent, David Gaubatz, who serves as its Director of Field Research, in conjunction with the Center for Security Policy's Islamist Project. In recent months, on-site investigations of more than 100 of the roughly 2,300 facilities in the United States, selected randomly, have been conducted under Mr. Gaubatz's supervision by trained counterintelligence professionals, many of whom have Arabic, Farsi or Urdu language skills.

Based on preliminary evaluations of the first 102 mosques, there are grounds for serious concern about jihadist activities in more than seventy percent of these religious institutions. According to the research protocol, approximately forty percent of these Islamic facilities were assessed at a threat level requiring placement on a law enforcement watch list or more specific surveillance.

For the complete Press Release, GO HERE.

The Coughlin Affair
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Imagine trying to fight a war without a clue as to what motivates your enemy or governs his strategy for your destruction. Actually, you don't have to work too hard to get your head around such an insane idea; it is the current practice of the United States government.

This is not, of course, the way it is supposed to be. According, for example, to the Pentagon's own guidelines as reflected in the Army's Field Manual 34-130 dealing with Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB), one of the first tasks in any conflict is to "Evaluate the threat." This job requires military personnel to "update or create threat models: convert threat doctrine or patterns of operation to graphics (doctrinal templates); describe in words the threat's tactics and options; [and] identify high value targets."

Such guidance is eminently sensible and needed, not only at the tactical or battlefield level, but also at the strategic level. In fact, most national security practitioners would find it, well, unimaginable to try to do otherwise. [more...]

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a National Security Expert, and a columnist for the Washington Times. More on Frank...

Kosovo's Stark Warning
By Caroline B. Glick

Kosovo's U.S.-backed declaration of independence is deeply troubling. By setting a precedent of legitimizing the secession of disaffected minorities, it weakens the long-term viability of multi-ethnic states. In so doing, it destabilizes the already stressed state-based international system.

States as diverse as Canada, Morocco, Spain, Georgia, Russia and China currently suffer problems with politicized minorities. They are deeply concerned by the Kosovo precedent. Even the U.S. has latent sovereignty issues with its increasingly politicized Hispanic minority along its border with Mexico. It may one day experience a domestic backlash from its support for Kosovar independence from Serbia. [more...]

Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, where this article first appeared.