Tuesday, August 10, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
From Germany, a Lesson for Mayor Bloomberg - ' While New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was energetically defending the Ground Zero mosque, German authorities banned on Monday the Masjid Taiba mosque of Hamburg, which served as the launching pad for the 9/11 terror attacks. Even before it changed its name from al-Quds to Masjid Taiba in 2008, the mosque had long served as a hotbed for training jihadists and stoking anti-Western ideology. According to Christoph Ahlhaus of the Hamburg interior ministry, "Today we closed the Taiba mosque because young men were being turned into religious fanatics there." He added, "Behind the scenes, a supposed cultural organization shamelessly used the freedoms of our democratic rule of law to promote holy war." The move to outlaw the Masjid Taiba mosque is long overdue. As critics have highlighted, Germany has been far too reluctant to clamp down on radical Islam in the Federal Republic...'
