The Streamwood Fun Fest or whatever it’s called is a zoo. They don’t even have parking at Hoosier Grove, you have to go to Streamwood High School and take a freakin’ shuttle. From what I could see of it so far, it looks like one of those cheap carnivals that used to travel the country and park in the Dominick’s parking lots.

I didn’t go in to see if there were one-eyed freaks running the carnival rides.

At any rate, disgusted with that, I noted that they had some type of a parade which I missed. But I didn’t miss the hassle of having to drive to other streets because the cops had blocked them off.

Finally I got to the destination I was looking for.

This used to be Ahlgrim’s Funeral Home until the Ahlgrims moved. My son used to date their daughter when he was down in Texas; a difficult thing to do long distance.

The shame of it is, though - not necessarily the fact that it’s now an Islamic Mission, but the monstrosity they’re building next door - which is a gigantic mosque.

The construction site is surrounded by fencing.

You really have to walk it to feel the giant scale this is being built on. It dwarfs the old Ahlgrim Funeral home, in comparison. It appears to use quite a bit of the square footage of the land - all the way to the property line, and interestingly enough, it looks extremely similar to the Flight 93 memorial structure.

You can see the bowl, you can see how on the near side -nearest the viewer in this picture - there will be a minaret to call people to prayer.

I wonder if there will be an Islamic sundial.

I pass this thing every day and will be putting up more pictures as the construction of this thing continues.

It’s very disgusting, considering - I don’t think there are that many muslims in this area - at least according to the census.

So who is this thing meant for? Where is the money coming from to build it? I have a lot of questions about this thing.

CAIR-Chicago Conducts Voter Registration Drive at Bait-Ul-Ilm
October 1, 2006

Interesting. CAIR is involved. Cair not only conducted voter registration at Bait-Ul-Ilm in Streamwood, it also was actively getting people to vote in the Bridgeview community, where the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation is. The Bridgeview Mosque Foundation raised a significant sum of money - around $50,000 for Sami Al-Arian and has supported Palestinian suicide bombers.

There are also links from Bridgeview to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (which was shut down for its connections to Hamas), and to Kindhearts.

I’ll need to do more investigating on this.

I’m wondering after reading that piece at Discover the Networks on the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation - about whether Bait-Ul-Ilm’s mosque is in any way connected to - or if as was the case with the Bridgeview Mosque, there are plans to sign Bait-Ul-Ilm’s mosque over to-”the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a Saudi-related extremist organization that actively seeks to take ownership of American mosques. (NAIT owns approximately 300 mosques across the United States.)” DTN

That number is probably growing.

It really gave me the creeps when I first entered the address into the Qibla Locator.

I turns out that despite the fact that I entered in “Illinois” or IL as the abbreviation, it turned results from Texas near Texas A&M University. Notice the giant crescent that this particular location is facing into - which is Ross Street.

I decided to take a different approach since plugging in the address didn’t work. So I found the latitude and longitude of the location and plugged that in. And Voila.

The construction of this building shows that it’s on an angle, I have no doubt that they will be facing Mecca precisely as they’ve made no attempts at covering up the fact that this is a mosque.

I wonder how many people this will hold on any given Friday. Where will they park? Will they demolish the virtually abandoned strip mall next door in order to accommodate all the cars? And where will they come from, since it’s not Streamwood residents that have helped build it, or who have financed it?

Interestingly enough, google maps does not show the construction site at all. From the satellite view, it just appears to be a large piece of land with some trees on it. “A” is the Islamic Mission, formerly Ahlgrim’s Funeral Home. “B” is where this construction site for the ginormous mosque is. When doing a search for the Islamic Mission and Mosque, the site does not show up at all and the street view is unavailable.

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