Tel-Chai Nation

Ethel Fenig at the American Thinker makes a good point about the role mosques play in jihadism, and points to a document explaining all this:

Military use of the Al-Farouq Mosque by Hamas is not an exception. Hamas and other terrorist organizations systematically use many mosques in the Gaza Strip for military and political purposes. Mosques in the Gaza Strip are used not only for worship but also for diverse military and political purposes, such as recruiting operatives for terrorist activity, storing weapons, meeting places for terrorist operatives, points of departure for terrorist attacks, training sites, places for firing rockets and mortar bombs and centers for political and ideological activity.

4. Military use of mosques is rooted in the perception of senior Sunni and Shiite clerics, including Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hamas’s main religious role model that the use of mosques for military purposes as part of jihad (holy war) is legitimate. This perception is based on Islamic tradition (hadith) that states that the Prophet Muhammad himself used a mosque for military and political purposes, in addition to the classic function of the mosque as house of worship for the faithful.

They also use them for indoctrinating children, surely the worst part of preparations for jihad. That's why all those mosques should be turned into rubble, as it'll make it harder for them to run an indoctrination center.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, war on terror