Has Anyone Heard of Holy Islamville? (Al Fuqra Jihad Camps in SC and NY)

[The Cleaner]

UPN's "The Daily Buzz" ran a segment on this the other day and so I researched it. Spooky crap...

From the Center for Policing Terrorism:

The recruits, who signed documentation transferring the majority of their income to help foreign Islamic organizations, quickly set to work waging terrorist assaults against Jewish, Hindu, and even moderate Muslim clerics and temples in the United States. Exceptional members fought against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and received extensive terrorist and guerilla training while overseas.

Gilani preaches a Wahabbist, anti-Western worldview that ordains violence as the only means of purifying Islam. Members of Jamaat al-Fuqra are Allah’s soldiers in a battle against the cultural and religious taint of the Western world; and al-Fuqra documents and speeches are inundated with references to Zionist conspiracies and a call to arms. Al-Fuqra and Sheikh Gilani have been linked to al-Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations.

Composed of American and Canadian citizens, Jamaat al-Fuqra has established a wide ranging network throughout North America centered around four primary compounds in York, South Carolina; Red House, Virginia; Hancock, New York; and Baladullah, California. Individual compounds have earned a place on local law enforcement radar following arrests for illegal weapons possession, arms smuggling, and high-profile fraud investigations. Suspicions of a relationship between Jamaat al-Fuqra and the Virginia snipers, as well as with Richard Reid the notorious shoe bomber, have served to keep national authorities vigilant. Nonetheless, the compounds of Jamaat al-Fuqra remain relatively free of government oversight and interference: all the better to serve as a capable, seamless, wide-spread terrorist network.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:YbEdEG5O5TYJ:www.cpt-mi.org/pdf_secure.php%3Fpdffilename%3DJAMAATAL-FUQRA2+islamville+new+york+new+york+times&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us

[The Cleaner]

1. Another related article...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- A man who admitted to the Christmas Eve 1971 shooting of a security officer on a Long Island college campus was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison.

Frank Nelson, also known as Abdullah Ali, now 68, was arrested Sept. 29, 2005, after the U.S. Marshals Service received information that the fugitive was living near the Holy Islamville community of orthodox Muslims near York, S.C., prosecutors said.

He pleaded guilty last month to criminal possession of a weapon, first-degree assault, first-degree criminal trespass and escape.

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/346531.php?contentType=4&contentId=405260

[donco6]

2. No, but I've heard of the Manhattan Institute.

Which sponsors this group.

Here's who's on their 25th Anniversary video:

Featuring:
MICHAEL BARONE, US News & World Report
DAVID BROOKS, New York Times
RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, former Mayor of New York City
PEGGY NOONAN,
Trustee, Manhattan Institute, Wall Street Journal
THOMAS SOWELL, Hoover Institution
JOHN STOSSEL, ABC News 20/20
SAM TANENHAUS, New York Times Book Review

[The Cleaner]

3. Manhattan Institute Sponsors Al Fuqua?

Do you have a link for that? Just curious, I did a search and didn't find any connection.

Manhattan Institute is a who's who of RWers though...even William Kristol, Mr. Neocon himself, is on their board.

[donco6]

4. No, they sponsor the Center for Policing Terrorism. n/t

[The Cleaner]

5. Ah- oh, strange...

That's correct, didn't see that before. On the CPT website (http://www.cpt-mi.org/) there's a "support MI" link and it takes you directly to Manhattan Institute.

Regardless, I first heard this story on UPN Daily Buzz the other day. Daily Buzz is not a conservative show by any means...so...hmmmm..

:wtf:

[donco6]

6. It just makes me a little suspicious.

But doesn't mean it isn't true. :scared: