“Quantifying the scale of ideological and physical infiltration by Islamist groups, Sheikh [Muhammad Hisham] Kabbani of the Islamic Council of America said in January [7] 1999: ‘We can say that [the Islamists] took over 80% of the mosques in the United States. There are more than 3,000… This means that the ideology of extremism has been spread to 80% of the Muslim population, mostly the youth and the new generation.’ “
– Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 103