Radical mosques are being built across the United States at an alarming rate, all tethered to a fanatical strain of Islam emanating from Saudi Arabia. And while so many have gone up, not one has come down. Not even Brooklyn, New York?s Al-Farooq Mosque, which housed al-Qaeda?s American hub in the early 90?s, the Alkifah Refugee Center, has met its demise. Recently, a new mosque of this kind was given the green light, a 29,000 square foot goliath, smack in the middle of South Florida. Tonight, a group of community leaders will be voicing their concern in protest.

The mosque in question is the brainchild of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF), also known as the Pompano Masjid. According to ICOSF, the center?s mosque goers need more space. But besides the new basketball court, soccer field, preschool and daycare facility that the new center provides them, there are also troubling facts that cannot be overlooked and that are forever adjoined to those involved in its creation ? beginning with the mosque?s past and present websites.

On every page of the ICOSF website is a link to the site, Islamic Finder, a good source for anti-Semitic and misogynistic propaganda. In the Islamic Finder article, entitled ?50 Signs of the Day of Judgment,? an impending war is discussed between Muslims and ?the Jews plus other non-Muslims led by the Antichrist.? According to the article, the Antichrist ?will be followed by 70,000 Jews.? Another Islamic Finder article describes in which instances and to what degree a husband is allowed to beat his wife. It states, ?It is important that a wife recognizes the authority of her husband in the house. He is the head of the household, and she is supposed to listen to him? If there arises any disagreement or dispute among them, then it should be resolved in a peaceful manner? However, in some cases a husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the moral infraction of his wife??
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In the beginning of 2003, shortly before the commencement of the War in Iraq, this author found himself on a radio show (taped for television), The Steve Kane Show, with Sabri. We were brought there to debate the creation of another mosque, one in Boca Raton, Florida: the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR). It was my contention that, due to the numerous ties to terrorism ICBR had, the project was nothing less than a threat to the community. After hearing what Sabri said (and reading everything above), one should feel no different about his mosque.

On the show, Sabri agreed with the statement that Jews have no right to Jerusalem and that Allah should rid the Jews of the land.

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Khalid Hamza, who was an advisor to the Muslim Student Organization at FAU, not too long ago used a Texas A & M University internet forum to defend Sami Al Arian, a Tampa professor that was recently taken into custody for his involvement as a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). I used the term ?was an advisor to the MSO,? because FAU has told him that they don?t want him to return to his teaching duties, and because the Islamic Center of Boca Raton sent out an e-mail announcing that he was leaving the South Florida community.

Aside from his involvement with the Islamic Center of Boca Raton and the Muslim Student Organization, Khalid Hamza is also an author. He recently wrote a novel entitled ?The Veil,? which is being promoted on the MSO?s website, www.msofau.org. The book is about a Muslim family living in Boca Raton. The first member of the family, as listed in the forward, is fittingly named Jihad.

While Hamza was with the MSO, the student group brought a couple of key radicals to speak at the university. On April 21, 2001, the MSO?s second annual Scholars? Night featured Rafil Dhafir, a man that now sits behind bars for raising millions of dollars for terrorist organizations in the guise of an Iraqi children?s charity called ?Help the Needy.? Dhafir has also given lectures on why Muslims must not befriend Jews or Christians and how The United States and England have had a ?vicious? war on Iraq. The contact for this event was MSO president, David Johnson, who now holds a position in the FAU student government. [On November 16, 2002, the ICBR also hosted Rafil Dhafir, in a fundraiser for the new mosque.]

The MSO?s fourth annual Scholars? Night, on the date of April 21, 2003, featured Siraj Wahhaj, a man who was named as one of the potential unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and someone that sits on the Advisory Board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that is a spin-off of a front for the terrorist group Hamas. The contact for this event was Khalid Hamza.

Bassem Alhalabi, the other co-founder (and treasurer) of the ICBR, was a colleague of Sami Al Arian?s at the University of South Florida, and according to his resume, wrote various publications with Al Arian around the time that Al Arian was beginning to set the groundwork for the PIJ in America. One of the publications was even featured at a conference in Damascus, the headquarters of the PIJ and the home of Alhalabi Industries, where Alhalabi was employed prior to becoming a research assistant to Al Arian. Alhalabi gave Al Arian as a reference, when he sought employment at FAU.
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Bassem Alhalabi, the other co-founder of the MSO, was charged with exporting a $13,000 thermal imaging camera to Syria. The Department of Commerce (DOC) restricts the export of the camera to foreign countries. The device is used to produce heat-sensitive images of buildings, landscapes and ground areas. According to the DOC report, ?thermal imaging cameras are controlled for export to Syria for national security, regional stability, and anti-terrorism reasons.? Alhalabi claimed his brother wanted it, so that he could search for gold. The sentence he received was a one-year denial of export privileges.
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