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October 10, 2005

Islamic Terrorists Among Us: Jamaat ul-Fuqra in Virginia, Part 1

Topics: War on Terror

It seems a bit too politically correct to allow Islamic terrorists the freedom to exist freely among us, establish terrorist centers, and propagate hate and violence in the name of a religion - "Islam." But that's what's going on throughout America. Such a group is Jamaat ul-Fuqra, and this particular location, one of many others, is in Red House, Virginia, a crossroads hamlet with two stores, one of them a modern truck plaza with multiple pump canopies and a convenience store, and the other a traditional little country story with a couple of pumps in front and an unpaved parking lot. Gates of Vienna has now taken an interest in the operation of Jammat ul-Fuqra in Red House, Va., and it's something that all Americans should be concerned about, especially since groups like them are presently operating all over America - and growing in number>

Jamaat ul-Fuqra is an Islamic terrorist group founded in New York by Sheikh Gilani in 1980; Gilani is the cleric with whom Daniel Pearl had arranged an interview back in January of 2002. The group launders money, smuggles firearms, plans and carries out assassinations and bombings, and conducts intense Islamist indoctrination, including inside American prisons.

["Red House" Va., terrorist center (Image - Gates of Vienna)]

A Defense Watch article in 2002 has outlined the activities of the Red House compound.

The current headquarters of the group is in Hancock, New York, and it has various compounds, or Jamaats, scattered throughout the United States and Canada, notably in Colorado, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. Most of the adherents are reported to be American-born Black Muslims who follow a strict Islamist ideology. John Allen Muhammad is suspected, by some, to have been a member of this group.

A February 2002 article in The Daily Excelsior of India reported that Muslims of the Americas operates communes of mostly black, American-born Muslims in Binghamton, New York; Badger California; York, South Carolina; and Red House, Virginia, law enforcement officials said. But there are also some non-Muslims in the group.
The money laundering scheme in Virginia, officials said, is similar to a 101-acre Colorado operation that was shut down in 1993.

The Fuqra regard as enemies of Islam, all those who do not follow the tenets of Islam as laid out in the Koran, including those Muslims who they consider as heretics as well as non-Muslims. One of the works of Gilani, the group's founder, published by the Quranic Open University in the US and seized in a 1991-investigation instructed his cadres that their foremost duty was to wage Jehad against the 'oppressors of Muslims'. Members of the group are described as Islamist extremists with much hatred toward their 'enemies'.

Read more about these Islamists in our midsts at Gates of Vienna...

So our big "Question Of The Day" is: Did the D.C. sniper, John Allen Muhammad, have ties to the radical Muslim group - Jamaat ul-Fuqra (aka Jihad Council for North America), which boasts ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida, and was he acting as an an Islamist terrorist sympathizer?

And why we're at it, "Why weren't such questions pursued and followed up on by the media?"

Hat tip - Belmont Club

Posted by Richard at October 10, 2005 2:47 PM

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