$100 Million Mega-Mosque Coming To Maryland
Turkey's Islamist government is constructing a massive $100 million, 15-acre mosque in Lanham, Md., that is expected to "become the largest and most striking example of Islamic architecture in the Western hemisphere" by October 2014.
In May, Turkey Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan placed a ceremonial stone at the construction site. Now the five-building project known as the Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center is well underway in the town just outside Washington, D.C., with a population of about 10,000.
As the Clarion Project explains, mosques have been springing up all over the U.S. in recent years. As many as 80 percent of the mosques in America have been built in the last 12 years - since the 2001 terror attacks.
"A large majority of mosques in the United States are led by Wahhabi clerics," the Project explains. "Wahhabism is an extreme brand of Islam practiced dominantly in Saudi Arabia. According to Muslim estimates, up to 80 percent of mosques in the U.S. are owned, operated and led by Wahhabis.
"These radical mosques often promote the installation of Sharia law, an extreme ideology that considers 'non-believers' to be infidels. According to Wahhabis, jihad or support of jihad is a Muslim duty. They believe that suicide bombers and martyrs are worthy of the highest praise and reward. And radicals are anticipating the day when an Islamic state will one day span the U.S."
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