Over 400 Radical, Anti-US Islamic Centers Exposed

There are between 400 and 500 radical Islamic mosques in the United States, a private undercover organization has just disclosed.

David Gaubatz, the director of counterintelligence and counterterrorism for the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE) told Insight Magazine, "Our initial investigation has concluded there are between 400 to 500 radical Islamic centers in the U.S. In those places, they preach an extreme version of Islam that says America and the West is the enemy. They espouse violence, hatred and the need for terrorism."

A former senior U.S. intelligence official, Gaubatz now works for the national non-profit group Mapping Sharia, which is devoted to investigating the 2,300 Islamic centers in the U.S. for Muslim extremist activity and supported by SANE.

The Mapping Sharia in the U.S. website describes the mission: "The Mapping Shari'a in America Project is the world's first effort to systematically evaluate the threat that a nation faces from efforts to impose Shari'a within its borders." The Mapping Sharia project's investigators include seasoned intelligence and counter-terrorism experts and Islamic scholars (Muslims, Christians and Jews), many of whom are fluent in Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi.

"Shari'a is not merely speech, and it is certainly not religion as understood by the West," SANE's President, David Yerushalmi, said at a morning press conference, according to the Mapping Sharia site. "Rather, it is a political and ideological mandate to destroy the West. We believe that every act to teach, preach, and live according to traditional, historical, and authoritative Shari'a contributes to a criminal conspiracy to overthrow our government."

The Mapping Sharia project ranks Islamic mosques and schools in terms of their level of adherence to Shari'a. The Mapping Sharia project will also assess the risks these Islamic centers pose in terms of future Jihadist attacks. The project is making this information available to law enforcement and the public.