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Can Muslims Blame Us For Being Skeptical About Mosques?

4/25/13 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio…
BOSTON — The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon double bombing has been associated with other terrorism 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.
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9/6/11 CNN reporting on The Public Religion Research Institute: “Nearly half of Americans would be uncomfortable with a woman wearing a burqa, a mosque being built in their neighborhood or Muslim men praying at an airport; 41% would be uncomfortable if a teacher at the elementary school in their community were Muslim; 47% of survey respondents said the values of Islam are at odds with American values.

No Responses to “Can Muslims Blame Us For Being Skeptical About Mosques?”

  1. Robert says:

    No

  2. Kevin says:

    Yes. Most mosques are places of worship. The article quoted in the question is so ambiguous that at the end of the day the only thing driving suspicion of the mosque is paranoia and not facts.
    As for the Pew poll, that says more about Americans xenophobia than it says about Islam. That concern is based more in misinformation and stereotypes than it is on reality.

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