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June 5, 2007

Islamberg Back In The News - 'Again'

Topics: Terrorism

The New York Post reports that law-enforcement authorities say it's a "remote Muslim commune nestled in the Catskill Mountains under the scrutiny of state and federal authorities for possible ties to terrorism." And it's back in the news this week following the JFK Muslim terrorist plot.

Officials say Islamberg - a wooded, 70-acre encampment in upstate Tompkins, about three hours north of the city - acts as the headquarters for an outfit called Muslims of the Americas, widely believed to be a front for Jamaat al-Fuqra, founded by radical Pakistani cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani.

Reports of gunfire and military-style physical training at the camp have led some investigators to believe that the group's members are preparing for homegrown jihad.

According to one account, a neighbor said he has seen commune members dressed in Port Authority uniforms.

Al-Fuqra members have been suspects in assassinations and firebombings in the United States, authorities said, and an associate of the group, Rodney Hampton-el, was jailed in 1996 for plotting to bomb New York bridges and tunnels.

Gilani is the extremist who Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was reportedly trying to meet in Pakistan when he was abducted and beheaded.

Gilani started the organization in 1980, when he came to America and began preaching at a Brooklyn mosque.

And CFP notes the importance of closer scrutiny on communities in America run by Jamaat al-Fuqra-related thugs: "Suspected terrorists in JFK Airport plot tried to forge connection with Jamaat al-Muslimeen."

Saturday's foiled plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy Airport underscores the danger of allowing radical Islam paramilitary compounds like "Islamberg" on the outskirts of Hancock, New York to flourish below radar.

Compounds run by a Sheikh Mubarek Gilani-led Jamaat ul Fuqra actively recruit in penal institutions and convert new members by the thousands for their fanatical cause.

... Terrorism is alive and well under the cover of a legitimate, non-profit charity identified as Jamaat ul Fuqra, and it works tirelessly right on American soil.

"The authorities said the would-be bombers had tried to forge a connection with Jamaat al-Muslimeen, a group of converts to Islam which staged a violent coup attempt in Trinidad & Tobago in 1990." (Timesonline, June 3, 2007).

In yet another CFP story we are reminded that Islamberg is not the only radical Muslim compound flourishing in North America that is related to the Gilani-led Jamaat ul Fuqra.

Make no mistake about it. Islamberg is a terrorist training facility, as are all such compounds run by Gilani-led Jamaat ul Fuqra. Isn't it time to "disassemble" these compounds in the interest of national security? AS the above CFP article points out:

Meanwhile, it's the converted Islamist wearing the cunning new face of international terrorism, and thousands of them are busy training in radical Islam paramilitary compounds on North American soil.

Don't believe that compounds like Islamberg are getting a free ride below radar?

Just report on them like Doug Hagmann and wait for the rant from one Sheikh Mubarek Gilani.

Posted by Abdul at June 5, 2007 12:10 AM

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