excerpt....The goal of the European Institute for Human Sciences, as the coed school is known, is an urgent one shared by political leaders and intelligence and law enforcement authorities across the Continent.

They believe that the growing Muslim population of Europe must stanch the migration of Muslim clerics who often are self-appointed, unfamiliar with the West, beholden to foreign interests and, in the most extreme cases, full of hate and capable of terrorist acts.

To that end, they say, a homegrown breed of imams must be created.

"We are here to create modern imams who will respond to the needs of our Muslims in France and in Europe," said Zuhair Mahmood, the Iraqi-born director of the school who trained as a nuclear scientist and helped found it 12 years ago. "We need more mosques for the faithful, and that means more
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