I've investigated radical Islamic activity and Hamas support in Columbus, OH in the past (watch my CBN report from October 2007 here). Now Patrick Poole has the latest troublng news out of Buckeye Country. From Pajamas Media:
In the early morning of October 19, a fire ravaged through the property surrounding Masjid Salama, a growing Columbus, Ohio, mosque frequented primarily by members of the local Somali community. Several Somali-owned businesses surrounding the mosque were heavily damaged, but the mosque itself was not touched. However, because of the surrounding damage, the mosque itself has not been cleared for reopening.
As reported by the Columbus Dispatch, fire investigators immediately determined that arson was to blame for the blaze.
But rather than blaming the arson on unknown anti-Muslim individuals engaged in a religious hate crime, many inside the Columbus Somali community are fixing their suspicions on leaders of another local Somali mosque, Masjid Ibn Taymiya. This mosque is dominated by supporters of the al-Shabaab terrorist group, and members have made repeated attempts to take over the rapidly growing Salama congregation through an unsuccessful campaign of legal and physical intimidation.
Read it all. These are the kinds of strongarm tactics that are being employed against moderate Muslims from Iraq to London to right here in the U.S. Columbus is just the tip of the iceberg in that regard.