Middle East Quarterly Releases Results of Multi-Year Survey of American Mosques

In its Summer 2011 edition, Middle East Quarterly published a groundbreaking report, “Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques,” by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi. The survey, on which the report was based, found that 51% of US mosques had texts that either advocated the use of violence in the pursuit of a Shari’a-based political order or advocated violent jihad outright; another 30% had texts that were moderately supportive of violence.