Jeff Jacoby has a wonderful column in The Boston Globe on the growing threat of Saudi sponsored Wahhabi Islam within the mosques of the US. Such an outgrowth of this radical strain of Islam prompted Freedom House to conduct a study of the degree that Saudi influence has risen in the US. The most interesting fact is what Jacoby pointed out in his article:
"It is important to note that most Muslims do not share the xenophobic Wahhabi dogma. Freedom House undertook its study in part because ''many Muslims . . . requested our help in exposing Saudi extremism in the hope of freeing their communities from ideological strangulation." Now that Freedom House has done so, it is up to moderate American Muslims to purge their mosques of the Saudi toxin, and to ostracize the extremists."
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