Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12067-2003Mar22.html
On March 22, 2003 The Washington Post reported that "so far, nothing exists of the Muslim Youth Camps of America except the name and some preliminary sketches of a main lodge with a domed prayer hall. Yet, the proposal to build a $2 million Islamic summer camp in Iowa has become a kind of Rorschach test -- a hazy picture in which supporters and opponents see all their hopes and fears for future generations of Muslims in the American heartland... The camp is the brainchild of a handful of families in Cedar Rapids, home to one of the oldest mosques in the United States and a small Muslim community that dates back more than a century. They may soon gain a powerful backer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is considering whether to lease a former Girl Scout campground to the nonprofit group for $1 a year... As the United States invades Iraq and mounts a worldwide campaign against al Qaeda terrorists, however, the Corps of Engineers has been deluged with angry letters, e-mails and phone calls."