An incredibly crappy story:

A major problem with this story is that it just isn't news. No fucking shit, Moslems have trouble opening mosques. Everybody has trouble getting zoning for new houses of worship. Thanks for the news flash Lauren Green.

But on to it's more juicy problems. The biggest is that the reporter did very little reporting. She interviewed three people, read a poll, and combined it into a few paragraphs. So we know that activists claim the Moslem Brotherhood is trying to take over America with a stealth organization the Muslim America Society, that it's doing so by acquiring mosques (so it can appoint Imams), that Hamas was founded by Brotherhood members, that the stated goal of all these organizations is a world under shariah law, and that MAS has defended convicted terrorists. The Shariah law thing, BTW, includes Kansas. MAS denies everything and calls the activists racist. What we do not know is whether any of these people are lying.

For example it would have been very easy for Ms. Green to find out exactly which terrorists MAS has defended, and how. Saying Zarqawi was insane, and needed to be in a mental hospital instead of a courtroom is one thing. Saying the 20th hijacker was a great guy who should get a medal for standing up to the US is another. I suspect MAS has not defended any convicted terrorists. It probably defended charges against Ali Houssaiky and his friend, Osma Sabhi Abulhassan, but those guys were cleared when the police realized they were simply buying low at Walmart, and selling high at Detroit Gas Stations.

It would also have been easy to ask parishioners at the newly "acquired" mosques what they thought about the organization.

Or simplest of all she could have found out whether the Islamic population in these areas is actually growing.

But all that would have been work.