A huge new mosque being built in Boston has the endorsement of a radical Islamic cleric who openly fantasizes that Islam will conquer America—but this testimonial from “Dr.” Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi appears only in the Arabic version of the Islamic Society of Boston’s brochure for the mosque: Islamic radical tied to new Hub mosque. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)

The endorsement of the $22 million mosque and cultural center project in Roxbury by the cleric, Dr. Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi, appears prominently in an Arabic-language brochure published last year by the Islamic Society of Boston, which is the group Mayor Thomas M. Menino has approved to construct the mosque.

Al-Qaradawi’s enthusiastic backing of the project is nowhere to be found in the group’s English-language brochure.

After the backers of the mosque denied any connection to the radical sheik in October, the Herald obtained a copy of the Arabic brochure, had it independently translated and discovered al-Qaradawi’s endorsement of the project.

The influential Qatar-based cleric is best known for his public support of the terrorist group Hamas and his religious rulings applauding suicide bombings, positions which caused the U.S. State Department in 1999 to bar him from entering the United States.

Beyond that, however, al-Qaradawi also promises that eventually Islam will prevail over all other religions and a single Islamic state will rule the world.

Al-Qaradawi says some countries will fall to the armed Islamic jihad, but in others, such as the United States, victory will come through Da’awa - the teaching of Islam to non-Muslims - which will trigger Westerners to convert to Islam “in droves.”

“We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through (the) sword, but through Da’awa,” al-Qaradawi told members of the Muslim Arab Youth Association at the group’s 1995 convention in Toledo, Ohio.

In its Arabic language brochure, the Islamic Society of Boston states that al-Qaradawi is one of “several international Islamic personalities who are working to support the project.”

The pamphlet quotes “a video recording taped specifically to support the project” in which al-Qaradawi says: “This is one of the greatest projects, and supporting it is one of the best deeds, and establishing it is a step that will greatly benefit Islam and Muslims. May Allah reward well those overseeing it.”