Glad to see this kind of Canadians doing the right job to enlighten the (g)world(s). From their website: Over twenty years ago, our Imam, Al Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani Hashimi, inspired our Jamaat to extricate ourselves out of the crime infested cities and pool our resources to purchase land where we could build our own Muslim villages. We in fact made Hijra for ALLAH’s sake that we might practice our Deen in letter and spirit. ALLAH the most high knows the sacrifices and loss, the hardship and suffering endured in the move from Dar ul Harb to Dar ul Islam - I call it occupation of public land from islamists with heavy criminal records. Springtime in Islamberg Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New YorkState Islamberg also has a website with photos: http://www.islamberg.org/ By Paul L. Williams Ph.D., (author of THE DAY OF ISLAM) With the able assistance of Douglas Hagmann, Bill Krayer and Michael Travis Friday, May 11, 2007 http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/paul-williams051107.htm Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden. The 70 acre complex is surrounded with "No trespassing" signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats. The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on a bright sunny day in May. The road, dubbed Muslim Lane, is unpaved and marred by deep crevices that have been created by torrential downpours. On a wintry day, few, save those with all terrain vehicles, could venture forth from the remote encampment. A sentry post has been established at the base of the hill. The sentry, at the time of this visit, is an African American dressed in Islamic garb - - a skull cap, a prayer shawl, and a loose fitting shalwat kameez. He instructs us to turn around and leave. "Our community is not open to visitors," he says. Behind the sentry and across a small stream stand dozens of inhabitants of the compound - - the men wearing skull caps and loose fitting tunics, the women in full burqa. They appear ready to deal with any unauthorized intruders. The hillside is blighted by rusty trailers that appear to be without power or running water and a number of outhouses. The scent of raw sewage is in the air. The place is even off limits to the local undertaker who says that he has delivered bodies to the complex but has never been granted entrance. "They come and take the bodies from my hearse. They won't allow me to get past the sentry post. They say that they want to prepare the bodies for burial. But I never get the bodies back. I don't know what's going on there but I don't think it's legal." On the other side of the hill where few dare to go is a tiny village replete with a make-shift learning center (dubbed the "International Quranic Open University"); a trailer converted into a Laundromat; a small, green community center; a small and rather squalid grocery store; a newly constructed majid; over forty clapboard homes; and scores of additional trailers. It is home to hundreds - - all in Islamic attire, and all African-Americans. Most drive late model SUVs with license plates from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The locals say that some work as tollbooth operators for the New York State Thruway, while others are employed at a credit card processing center that maintains confidential financial records. While buzzing with activity during the week, the place becomes a virtual hive on weekends. The guest includes arrivals from the inner cities of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and, occasionally, white-robed dignitaries in Ray-Bans from the Middle East. Venturing into the complex last summer, Douglas Hagmann, an intrepid investigator and director of the Northeast Intelligence Service, came upon a military training area at the eastern perimeter of the property. The area was equipped with ropes hanging from tall trees, wooden fences for scaling, a make-shift obstacle course, and a firing range. Hagmann said that the range appeared to have been in regular use. Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of "retaliation." "We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by," one resident said. "They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?" Islamberg's Grocery Store The complex serves to scare the bejeesus out of the local residents. "If you go there, you better wear body armor," a customer at the Circle E Diner in Hancock said. "They have armed guards and if they shoot you, nobody will find your body." At Cousins, a watering hole in nearby Deposit, a barfly, who didn't wish to be identified, said: "The place is dangerous. You can hear gunfire up there. I can't understand why the FBI won't shut it down." Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or "community of the impoverished," an organization that seeks to "purify" Islam through violence. Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania. Before becoming a citizen of Islamberg or any of the other Fuqra compounds, the recruits - - primarily inner city black men who became converts in prison - - are compelled to sign an oath that reads: "I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah's sake." In the past, thousands of members of the U.S. branches of Jamaat ul-Fuqra traveled to Pakistan for paramilitary training, but encampments, such as Islamberg, are now capable of providing book-camp training so raw recruits are no longer required to travel abroad amidst the increased scrutiny of post 9/11. Over the years, numerous members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers' compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings between 1979 and 1990. The criminal charges against the group and the criminal convictions are not things of the past. In 2001, a resident of a California compound was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy; another was charged with gun-smuggling' and twenty-four members of the Red House community were convicted of firearms violations. By 2004 federal investigators uncovered evidence that linked both the DC "sniper killer" John Allen Muhammed and "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid to the group and reports surfaced that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded in the process of attempting to obtain an interview with Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan. Even though Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been involved in terror attacks and sundry criminal activities, recruited thousands of members from federal and state penal systems, and appears to be operating paramilitary facilities for militant Muslims, it remains to be placed on the official US Terror Watch List. On the contrary, it continues to operate, flourish, and expand as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity.
On that same site of http://islamberg.org at http://islamberg.org/see_more_villages.html It says: To visit another village click www.holyislamville.org There will be more villages in the near future. If you click on it, it just goes to a parked domain at Sedo. I guess they are planning on having more villages?
It's in the article ... Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.
I never understand why they move from their homelands for this? Im from Iran, i escaped Islam thats why I moved away in the first place. Why do these people that love islam want to leave?
where does it say its public land and if its private land they can pretty much whatever they want there as long as it is legal, and shooting guns etc mentioned is all legal There are many places just like that for white trash skin heads, you would probably fit right in
Good question. When you follow the social background of those then it may be clearer to understand. They are losers at first hand, useless and unable in making contributions to society and for themselves. Militant islam gives them dignity, shelter, business, blood they thirst for. It's a kind of family substutuion and where they can live up to their pervertest dreams.
They leave i believe because they are fed up with living in a crap country & want a better life, yet they bring the same thing with them that causes their country of origin to be a crap country.
Showing real color too, eh? It bothers you to have the truth revealed. Local people can't even move around this place without fearing to be attacked. You not even read the criminal records of those gentlemen members, of course they must be your buddies.
they have compounds like that all over the US for different crackpot groups its part of the freedoms we enjoy as americans , its all covered under the first amendment you guys can even go start your own wingnut compound if you want, you can stock up on guns and canned goods and pretend to be soldiers if you want , its all legal there are many people in rural areas that won't think twice of pointing a gun at you if you are tresspasing its best not to go on other peoples land without permission
ALLAH the most high knows the sacrifices and loss, the hardship and suffering endured in the move from Dar ul Harb to Dar ul Islam What does it mean? Jihad ideology separates humanity into two hostile blocs: the community of Muslims (Dar ul-Islam), and the infidel non-Muslims (Dar ul-Harb). … Go and figure where you are in this threat. Freedom is only freedom when it is held with responsiblity. What Dal ul-Harb has created in the States is well documented. I'm not a defender of monkey freedom.
In this case, may be you should enlighten everybody about what parts of U.S. Constitution do you believe is monkey freedom and should be abolished?
are you serious? Every redneck in the state of texas lives in a camp and fires guns randomly. Apparently being a Muslim is now being a threat to the world, huh?
and you freedom loving ****'s if you loved freedom so much, wouldn't you be promoting it for everyone, including Muslims? But you're doing waht Hitler did, promoting freedom for the Aryan race, and screw everyone else.
Read the first post again and tell me what they are up to and then you tell me if that is alright or not. If you can live and die with that, fine, others can't. It has nothing to do with muslims or black people but with the aim and ideology, that needs to be scrutinized. Don't try to play funny.
this is what you said, the article is about African-American Muslims, and you called them monkeys "monkey freedom" lol, there is probably a white pride(trash) camp waitng for you
Hold on a sec...the quran and hadith refers to Christians and Jews and apes and pigs. Many a muslim cleric has been caught calling the same Christians and Jews, "pigs and apes." Many a time, we have had this discussion here. Never a peep from ferret or gworld. At most, they defended such, at normal, they dare not say a word. And *now* they are trying to twist someone's words around and take a high moral ground? ROFLMAO! I'm never amazed anymore, at the level these two dufuses will stoop with their hypocrisy!
Where? The Quran only mentions that God converted some disrespectful Jews into monkeys. Nothing else!