Police shut down mosque and 'cultural center' in Hamburg, gathering place for extremists. Mayor Bloomberg will dismiss this.

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• A structure described as an Islamic 'cultural center' was also a gathering
• place for extremists.
  

Perhaps they could advise NYC Mayor Bloomberg who sputters that
such structures are strictly a matter of 'religious freedom' and anyone who thinks
otherwise
'should be ashamed' of themselves.

• 8/9, BBC, "Germany shuts 9-11 plotters mosque in Hamburg,"

"German police have shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11 hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001.

About 20 police officers searched the Taiba mosque early on Monday;

• its associated cultural organisation is suspected of helping extremists.

Investigators suspect that members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan met at the Taiba mosque before going to a jihadist training camp.

The Taiba association has been banned.

• The mosque in Hamburg's St Georg district - formerly called the Al-Quds Mosque - has been under surveillance since the 2001 attacks.

German media say a recent intelligence report described the mosque as "a major hub for the jihadist scene in Hamburg",

• which it said grouped 45 radical Islamists."...

photo AFP

• (Perhaps they didn't like the health care bill....ed)