This paramilitary settlement in NY state is one of many around the country.  What is this branch of Islam?

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.”

I’m sure *cough cough* that this group of Islamic Jihadists have been infiltrated by US counter-terrorism intelligence operators just as they go after white supremacists. After all, it isn’t like members of the group haven’t been implicated in domestic terrorist attacks. Of course, their actions are not called domestic terrorism. It’s called murder, fire-bombing, gun-smuggling. I’ve never heard of them but they have a long and storied past which also continues into today.

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.

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.

Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state [By Paul L. Williams Ph.D., (author of THE DAY OF ISLAM)With the able assistance of Douglas Hagmann, Bill Krayer and Michael Travis]

Isn’t that special, they’re a tax-deductible charity! And where is the Department of Homeland Security? Where is FBI counterrorism? Oh,they’re going after the white supremacists and anti-abortionists.

I’m sure the Patriot Act helped to monitor this group but with the exposure of any of the tracking programs by the MSM this is probably out the window now.  I doubt they were tracked in the ’90’s with the Clinton Justice Dept considering the Gorelick wall which blocked any intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies.

h/t Lucianne

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