This rise shows that contrary to the thrust of this Slate article, Muslims for the most part have no trouble building mosques in the U.S. Also, the rise in the number of mosques reflects the rise in the number of Muslims in the country. If the U.S. is so “Islamophobic” and paranoid after 9/11 as the establishment media would have you believe, why this increase?
“The Mosque Wars,” by Aymann Ismail, Slate, September 11, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Ossama Bahloul, an imam and religious scholar, moved to Tennessee in 2008, at a time when more Muslims were settling there than ever before. In a phone conversation recently, he could barely contain his enthusiasm for the state, extolling the “very loving” community and the beauty of the Smoky Mountains.
His sweetness belied much of what he spent our call telling me. Over the past decade, he said, his mosque has repeatedly been vandalized and spray-painted with obscenities like “Fuck Allah.” Raw bacon was left on the mosque’s doorstep, and again on the front door’s handle, a strange but persistent tactic of anti-Muslim bigots. Once, Bahloul said, the security camera caught a group of men attempting to destroy the mosque by arson.
This all began in earnest around 2010, when his thriving community sought to do what had become the most radioactive thing an American Muslim could do post-9/11: build a new mosque.
On 9/11, there were only about 1,200 mosques across the U.S. That would rise to nearly 3,000 by last year.
American Muslims lived with dueling realities in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. They faced surging hate crimes and vast, illegal surveillance from their own government, leading to contemporary surveys that showed the majority viewed the U.S. as hostile to them. At the same time, their communities and civic life expanded at a rapid pace. The American Muslim population is now nearing 4 million, roughly twice the size it was on 9/11. And with that came a need for more mosques.
On 9/11, there were only about 1,200 mosques across the U.S. That would nearly double by 2010, and rise to nearly 3,000 by last year….
PMK says
Well, of course! We’ve had two decades more of third world immigration into the US. The new arrivals have more children than do Americans who have to foot the bill. The Muslim world has experienced revolution and war, which create huge numbers of ‘refugees’. India has a large Muslim population, of whom there are no doubt many who have come here on various work visas. Chain migration results in a geometric increase in the number of immigrants. Globalism rules!
mortimer says
Islam brings conflict with kafir hosts … always … until the kafirs are controlled by the Muslims, then the kafirs are ground down until they give up and disappear.
PMK says
It won’t be many years before Americans wistfully say: the USA was nice while it lasted.
Muslims don’t have to become a majority, just a sizable minority. A vocal minority can easily control a silent majority.
maria says
Close all the mosques in the US. And go aogainst all the muslims. Fire all the “teachers” from the schools and colleges and universities who are muslims or fr left.
It can be done if the US will fire bidet, harris, Pelosi and the squad.
Peacelover says
All should be taken out of the country
Peacelover says
..particularly,the males.
Peacelover says
Lunacy. So much more could be said. First,they attack you, Then,those attacked,say ‘c’mon in’,
I could have said that so much better and many different ways…
The country is attacked then the the country welcomes more of the attackers in.
A snake is in the grass and attacks so then those attacked say,Hey,let’s let more Snakes in!
so many more and better ways I suppose this could be written but,
I’m sure you get my point.
JOEYN says
I guess that is what happens when the attackers and their friends (i.e. the Left) over a period of time are allowed to infiltrate and take control of all major institutions of the country.
Wellington says
Hmmm. Wonder how many new churches, synagogues and Buddhist temples have arisen in Muslim nations, of which there are over 50, since 9/11?
To ALL adult Muslims: Your religion is rank, your capacity for self-pity incalculable, and your hypocrisy exponential. You make me sick, ALL of you, including the so-called moderates.
somehistory says
Righto!
maria says
Yes, excellent And I want all the muslims and leftists leave the US now without money and without phones Iphones, computers. And send them to Africa, Start with O bumma, his wife and daughters and Jarrett
somehistory says
If mozlums were really the “victims” they claim to be, there would not be any place they could go to plan their preying.,
And, if Justice was being served, those many barracks would be prisons, holding them for deportation to the lands from which they came. Because they are here to make us all slaves to satan.
They whine and lie in order to gain greater footholds and power. If they become a greater minority, or the majority, the whining will stop and the boasting, bragging, flogging and stoning will begin.
Fitna says
Indeed SH, as a group, we westerners are a soft-touch. Too trusting of others (and assuming they hold the same values we do), too deluded to see the reality that some groups like Muslims, Africans and Mexicans will never integrate but instead will create massive problems for us in the future.
We should include the Chinese too since so many of them have been caught engaged in industrial espionage and working for their Communist govt.
While Islam is a 1400 yr old dumpster fire, there is one positive trait about their ideology. They’re very xenophobic towards people and ideologies they consider a threat. So for instance they don’t allow churches or temples to be built on their soil.
They prevent non-Muslims from getting jobs that give them authority over Muslims and they stop immigration from anyone they consider an enemy. If we did the same towards Muslims, there would be no problem with terrorism or rape-gangs or the other ‘joys’ that Islam brings to the West.
Recall that Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states slammed the door shut on Syrian migrants a few years ago. They know what a headache their fellow Muslims are.
We were the magnanimous suckers that accepted them (actually it was morons who acted on our behalf without our permission), despite not sharing the language, religion or culture with these people, 90% of whom were military-aged Muslim men. And we see how they repay us for our generosity today with their knife attacks and other acts of terrorism.
There are millions of these ticking time-bombs embedded in our country ready at any time to kill a bunch of us to appease their bloodthirsty god Allah.
I’m middle-aged so by the time SHTF, I’ll probably old or gone by then. Unfortunately future generations will realize they have a monumental problem on their hands that could’ve been completely avoided if our generation had a few functioning brain cells.
somehistory says
Fitna ,
Thank you.
A man who survived Benghazi was on Glenn Beck, and was in afghanistan helping with the rescue of Americans, etc.
He told Beck that the U.S. would be back in that country in 45-90 days due to just how horrific the taliban are in their ‘government.’ And that the taliban will be here too with terror attacks.
What a colossal mess this world is in. I don’t believe you’ll be gone before many, many more realize the dangers unleashed by giving terrorists there and here so many weapons to use against innocent people.
gravenimage says
I don’t see the US going back into Afghanistan.
No more Americans should die trying to civilize this Islamic hell hole.
Jim says
It is time to put a cap on Islamization in the West. This is a warning sign about the rise of an America-hostile ideology in the USA
gravenimage says
On 9/11, there were 1,200 mosques in the U.S. Now there are nearly 3,000.
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Terrifying. Many more Muslims have invaded here and the rest of the West in the past twenty years, as well.
Peacelover says
Terrifying…you said it
Eleanor says
I have a small mosque at the bottom of my driveway. It’s a letterbox, and when I open it, it is full of cockroaches, and when they see the daylight, the cowards all scatter and run for cover. True story. Seriously though, those mosque figures are interesting – more than doubled over the past 20 years. So we can expect there to be at least 9,000 mosques across the country by 2041.
Clifford Fodor says
They have a plan. By 2050, they will take over the country.
We don’t have a plan.
Bill Halcott says
Also in my community. In my home town there are two. No one thinks this is a good idea. Demand reciprocity. For every mosque build a church in their country. Don’t hold your breath.
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article:
“On 9/11, there were only about 1,200 mosques across the U.S. That would rise to nearly 3,000 by last year.”
This represents a 150% increase.
And considering the new influx of Afghan “refugees”, the United States of America is on its way to becoming another Western Europe.
What is needed to stop this?
Some broad strokes:
1. Very strong conservative leadership from all three branches of the federal government as well as our intelligence agencies.
2. An honest and balanced media.
3. Breakup of big tech – and recognition of them as publishers.
4. Cease all federal funding to colleges and universities that champion Marxist ideology.
5. Guarantee free and fair elections at all levels.
6. Extreme vetting of all immigrants – and deportation of all who are a security risk.
7. Etc…
OTTER says
The US fell to Islam on 9/11.
Walter Sieruk says
The construction of the many mosques in the United States as well as the nations of Europe not only means that more people in the US and Europe are now being proselytized to Islam. This may be disturbing enough.
In addition, this mass construction of mosques in the US and the European countries have still a further meaning which has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”
Walter Sieruk says
This is part of what is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam with its Sharia law.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever.
Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Peacelover says
well put
Richard Hoard says
Great
OLD GUY says
We have allowed the enemy in the gate through the migration invasion of islam/muslims men. Terror attacks will rise with the increase in islamic/muslim migrants and the growth in the number of mosques.
This migration will also result in more islamic/muslim persons being elected onto public office and the subsequent changes in local laws effecting sharia.
If you are a non-muslim/islamic person beware of voting for muslim/islamic politicians, they will represent sharia and islamic rule ahead of everything else.
Peacelover says
‘If you are a non-muslim/islamic person beware of voting for muslim/islamic politicians, they will represent sharia and islamic rule ahead of everything else.’….
unfortunately,the blind(the Left) cannot see.
no offense meant towards the ‘physically’ blind