The message continues at the mosque of slain jihadist Al-Awlaki

People believe that if we kill the "leaders" of jihad we will have killed the threat, and that we can all go home. This article should dispel that myth, except for those who hate America and Jews enough to ignore the reality of Islamic hegemony. And there are quite a few of those people, unfortunately.

From the New York Post October 9 by Paul Sperry

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The 9/11 imam Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but his old mosque is still open for business and remains a dangerous breeding ground for terrorists -- and it’s right in the president’s back yard.

Nothing much has changed since 2002, when Awlaki voluntarily left the pulpit of the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in the Washington suburbs of Falls Church, Va.

It maintains the same radical leaders who hired him, and the same owners -- even the same fax number that investigators believe 9/11 planner Ramzi Binalshibh used to send instructions to Awlaki and key hijackers he aided there. An unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, moreover, still leads prayers there.

Only difference is, now the mosque is under national scrutiny. And it’s grown tired of the attention. After news broke that the Fort Hood shooter had also worshipped there with Awlaki, and later corresponded with the al Qaeda cleric in the run-up to the attack, the mosque held a press conference to deny it was radicalizing Muslims. But few bought its line that it was mere coincidence so many terrorists file through its doors.

On the recent news of Awlaki’s death by drone, the mosque stiffed reporters and just issued a statement. “While employed at Dar Al-Hijrah, he was known for his interfaith outreach, civic engagement, and tolerance in the northern Virginia community,” Dar Al-Hijrah spokesman Johari Abdul-Malik eulogized. “However, after Mr. al-Awlaki’s departure in 2002, he was arrested by Yemeni authorities and allegedly tortured” in 2006 in coordination with US authorities, Abdul-Malik added. “It was then that al-Awlaki began preaching violence.”

In fact, Awlaki was a longtime radical hired by a radical mosque. And Abdul-Malik, his close confidant, knows this better than anyone.

In 2001, while Awlaki was preparing the hijackers for their martyrdom operation, Abdul-Malik raised the banner of Palestinian jihad, saying it’s within Islamic law to “blow up bridges” and other infrastructure. “You can do all forms of sabotage,” he said...

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