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The Islamic Circle of North America's (ICNA) 2010 South Central Regional Conference last month at the University of Houston was more than just the local edition of ICNA's yearly theme, "Save Family – Save Society." Sessions like "Peer Pressure: Good or Bad" and "Parents and Our Responsibility" offered reasonable emphasis on issues of concern to any family.
However, increasing radicalism among Muslim American youth is a concern as well, and some of the literature available at the conference stood in contradiction with the stated goal of 'saving society.' Books by Islamist ideologues were widely available to conference attendees, including those by the godfather of modern Sunni terror movements and a Pakistani extremist who dreams of global Islamic governance.
These materials were in keeping with ICNA's long-standing promotion of extremist Islamist literature, a trend which was documented by the Investigative Project on Terrorism in connection with the radicalization of five young Americans arrested in Pakistan last December while trying to join the fight against U.S. troops.