all acts of terrorism." Eid's replacement was Imam Hafiz Masood, an assistant imam who "had been forced on him in 1998 by Abousamra and who was known for fiery sermons easily interpreted as promoting violence." The non-profit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance claims many of Masood's supporters remain in leadership roles in the Boston Muslim community, and some news reports claim that these radical doctrines at ICNE (and another mosque run by the Islamic Society of Boston) had a motivating influence on several well known local jihadists, including several below. However, Eid later clarified that although "he believed the city’s mosques should operate more democratically... he said the ideological tensions had no relationship to violence. 'Muslims all over are very good people, working hard, living their lives,' he said. 'In Boston, when you talk about terrorists, you can count them on the fingers of one hand. It’s not even one in 10,000.'" Imam Hafiz Masood later left ICNE after volunteering for deportation in 2008 after being arrested on criminal visa fraud charges by the United States U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After returning to his hometown of Lahore, Pakistan, he became spokesman for the Pakistani terrorist organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a group founded by his brother, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Recent Events In 2015, with new leadership, the ICNE in Sharon began offering a youth curriculum designed to counter foreign social-media-based enticements to violent extremism, written by a father, optometrist and member of the local Massachusetts Muslim community named Nabeel Khudairi. He explained, "'We want to protect young people from making bad decisions.'" The program "examines video games and substance abuse, social media, and the sea of misinformation on the Web." The year before, the Center's high schoolers participated in a winter camp called “Moderation.” Leadership Mosque leaders The current imams of the two mosques: Quincy Mosque: Imam Khalid Nasr Sharon Mosque: Imam Abdul Rahman Ahmad See also Islam in the United States References External links Muslim Communities in North America, chapter 13, "The Islamic Center of New England" Islamic organizations based in the United States Islam in Massachusetts