Jamaat al-Fuqra is a terrorist group that has a training camp in New York, ... in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called "Islamberg". There is new information that this group mayhas connections with the ' D.C. Beltway Sniper', John Allen Muhammed, slain US reporter Daniel Pearl, Richard Reid, Iyman Faris (the Ohio truck driver that was convicted for being part of an plot to blowtorch his way through the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge and drop it into the East River), Wadih El-Hage, (a secretary to Osama bin Laden and he also had several friends convicted in the 1993 WTC bombing), Clement Rodney Hampton-El, an American Black Muslim, suffered arm and leg wounds in Afghanistan, and Ghulam Mustafa.
Ghulam Mustafa, a/k/a Omar, a/k/a Shahjee has close ties to Osama bin Laden, has intimate knowledge of al-Qaeda's logistics and financing and its nexus with the military in Pakistan. "Mustafa comes from the Punjab, where he was once the leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami (Punjab), Pakistan's most prominent Islamic party. Mustafa had penetrated deeply into the circle of Syed Mubarik Ali Gilani, a revered Sufi and custodian of the Mian Mir shrine in Lahore. After September 11, 2001, Mustafa was placed in charge of al-Qaeda's Pakistan circle. His basic assignments included coordination between bin Laden and his followers in Pakistan." MORE on Mustafa
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, or "community of the impoverished," was founded by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani in New York in 1980. Gilani, aka "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," who desires to "purify" Islam through violence. Gilani also is the founder of a village in South Carolina called "Holy Islamville." That website is still active.
This is the headline on the website:
Upon the event of miraculous manifestations (Karamaat) of Allah Ta’ala, the Baitun-Noor Khanqah (the very first Islamic shrine in America) was erected and the village renamed to Holy Islamville in the holy month of Ramadan al-Mubarak, 1423 AH (2002 AD). The magnitude of the Karamaat of Allah Ta’ala has resulted in the Baitun-Noor Khanqah as being one of the holiest shrines in the world.
Hancock NY, at 2732 Roods Creek Rd. (believed to be the US headquarters) and Lahore Pakistan -- land documents, maps, arial maps, links to terrorism, organizational ideology and structure, information on the International Qu'r'anic Open University, Inc., activities in fraud and weapons acquisition, legal incorporation documents, and official investigative report are all found here in pdf. The investigation was conducted with an undercover person known only as "CP", Douglas J. Hagmann, and others, and reported on by World Net Daily.
Documents found at the site included 'flight manuals and Amateur radio manuals'. These are both of great interest, specifically the Amateur radio manuals. It terrorists decided to take out our communications network here in the US, Amateur radio would be the only true means of communication left. Only those trained and experienced in building antennas, receivers and transmitters would be able to communicate.
The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a patchwork of more than two dozen communes from New York to California, including a sizable retreat in Red House, Va., 30 miles south of Lynchburg, where as many as 200 people live in trailers in a guarded community.
FBI agents assigned to the sniper investigation task force were in Red House last week, seeking information on whether Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo had ties to that community or whether they had used the site as a hide-out during a 23-day killing spree in Virginia, Maryland and the District that left 10 persons dead and three others wounded.” --Washington Post
It is important to note that four members of the Red House “Jamaat” or encampment have been arrested on weapons charges, including two after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Homeland Security
Gilani put forth the statement that over 4,000 Jews were missing from work at the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001:
Gilani: On September 11th, about 100 MOA Boy Scouts belonging to MOA/IQOU were assisting the rescue and relief effort, on site, at Ground Zero, World Trade Center. They were surprised to learn, later, that some 4000 Jews employed at the WTC were conveniently absent on the 11th of September. The glaring question arises: How is it that they all came to be absent on that fateful day? Who were those people arrested on the New Jersey side by the FBI while videotaping the crash of the airplane? Why did building No. 7 collapse when it was clear that it was not hit by any airplane? Muslims of America
What does the Gilani have to say about the allegations against him and his various groups? He calls them, "campaign of hate, fabricated falsehood, lies, and appalling propaganda aimed at bringing about a clash between Muslims and Christians the world over, and particularly in the United States". This is from the group's website.
The website also claims the group can 'heal cancer patients and patients with heart conditions', even including images of echocardiograms that supposedly prove their claims. This is a little out of the norm for terrorist groups, but hey, anything to pull in converts. Which is exactly what they are doing. They are particularly happy about a female American Christian physician who converted after one of their 'miraculous healings'.
There are a total of 19 similar camps in 19 US states, that we know of. Many are called 'boy scout camps', but I've never know boy scouts who learn how to use automatic weapons, who need armed security around their camps, who dress in full muslim atire ... with connections to Pakistan.
Sheikh Mubarik Gilani is the man Daniel Pearl was on the way to meet him when The Wall Street Journal reporter was kidnapped.Gilani is a mysterious figure in the Islamic world. He is said to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. But for Pearl two other things set him apart. First, Gilani along with his followers have appeared on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Second, and even more provocative, the Sheikh has thousands of disciples who live right here in the United States. Dan Rather reports.
Pearl was following a lead. He thought that Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber, may have been a part of Gilani’s network of disciples. When 60 Minutes II Reporter George Crile arrived in Pakistan on Feb. 11, 19 days after Pearl had been taken captive, Pearl’s fate was still unknown. But Gilani was now behind bars, a principal suspect in Pearl’s kidnapping.
In the world of militant Islam, Khalid Khawaja seems to be a friend of just about everyone. Osama Bin Laden is one of his closest friends. But he is even closer to Gilani, and that’s why last January, when Pearl wanted to reach Gilani, he came to Islamabad to find Khawaja.
Khawaja told Crile that he had met with Pearl. “He came to me, in, I think, in the end of September, maybe. Or, somewhere in that, he called me from Bombay. That he is coming to Karachi. Then he came to Karachi. And he asked me to introduce him with some people in Karachi. I did that.” He says he specifically told Pearl that Sheikh Gilani would not see him.
“He kept on calling me on various occasions, and asking my opinion, and discussing certain things with me. And then he just disappeared,” says Khawaja.
Pearl disappeared into the hands of his kidnappers in Karachi and soon after, Gilani was jailed as the principal suspect.
“I have all my sympathies and- my feelings for Daniel. I was more worried about Mubarak Gilani and his family, who are in fact kidnapped, because there's nothing against them. There's no case,” says Khawaja.
Crile first met Khawaja more than a year ago, when he introduced the former to the world of Osama bin Laden. Well before Sept. 11, Khawaja warned that America was on a collision course with Islam.
This year, Khawaja took Crile into the world of Gilani. Seven days after being jailed in connection with the Pearl kidnapping, Khawaja was the first to hear the news of Gilani’s release. He told Crile that Gilani wanted to see him.
The atmosphere was tense throughout Pakistan when Khawaja set off with Crile that afternoon to meet the Gilani. Cars were being stopped and searched, houses raided. Pakistani and American officials were turning the country inside out, trying to find Pearl.
Before the kidnapping, few had heard about Gilani. But for years, the U.S. government had kept him and his organization in the State Department’s report on terrorism. The same report that al Qaeda now dominates.
In the report, Gilani’s organization was described as an “Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.” His followers, who call themselves The Muslims of America,” are based in the United States, thousands operating in 19 states across the country.
Most of them are African-American Muslims, who live in self-contained Islamic communities, like one they named Islamville in South Carolina, with its own mosque, its own school and more than 100 residents. All of them accept Gilani as their ultimate authority.
“I am telling you, Osama doesn’t have many people in America,” Khawaja says. “But here (in Pakistan), he has lots and lots of followers there and followers who are, I am telling you, I am sure of one thing, Osama does not have even one of his followers as committed as Sheikh Mubarak Gilani. Osama does not have even one as committed as the least of his people.
On Feb. 12, Crile and Khawaja reached the outskirts of the city of Lahore and wove their way through the back streets and dirt roads that lead to the Sheikh's walled compound. The Sheikh welcomed them into his home. Was this man at the heart of a terror network that threatened the U.S.? Was he behind Richard Reid? Crile had the opportunity to ask those questions, to a man who does not operate in public and does not give interviews.
Gilani said that he had nothing to do with Pearl’s kidnapping. He also said he did not know anything about Richard Reid, and that Reid was not part of his group.
As the Sheikh explained, he doesn’t see outsiders, and the last interview he granted was nearly a decade ago. But over the course of two days, he continued to answer Crile’s questions.
Gilani also said he was not part of al-Qaeda. “Why should I be part of it? I don't, I just - I'm a reformer, educationist. And I am not part of anybody.” He also said he didn’t know bin Laden, and has never met him.
“I mean, I keep to myself. And I do what I think is best for the people who follow me. First is peace. You know, another is they should work hard for a living. And they should be honest, good, trustworthy. That's all I told them. I know- if anybody does anything wrong, why blame me? Will you blame the pope if somebody, some Christian, does something wrong?”
Gilani says that he is used to being a suspect whenever there is a terrorist act against the U.S. He wanted to talk about what he sees as the most serious threat to the world, why bad things happen in America, including acts of terrorism. These bad things, he says, are caused by invisible forces.
“There are beings who are not visible to you,” he says. “But they inhabit this earth. And they are damaging, causing psychotic diseases, fits, epilepsies. And controlling the agents, controlling the human beings.”
Gilani says he can control those evil forces. He says that he is not a threat to the U.S., but could be its salvation.
To understand why, he points to an American television show “The X-Files.” He says the mind control and evil influence that aliens wield over human beings in the program is much like the power of the invisible forces he believes in.
“What is an X-file? Most of things - could have happened or will happen,” Gilani said. “Human beings can be made to do things against their will. They can be made to commit crimes. They can made to go and kill people. You know? And all your missiles, all your rockets, space ships go up. And electronics, they can be damaged, influenced, and misdirected through the agencies of jinn beings.”
Muslims all over the world also believe in these invisible evil forces that are described in the Koran. The Sheikh feels that these forces are a much bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism. He says the United States should thank him for passing on his message about the invisible world instead of accusing him of terrorism.
Gilani says that his followers are not anti-American. “In America, the Muslims are better than any part of the world,” he says. “They have more freedom. They are more facilities of life. Where will they go? OK, they do something wrong, where will they go? I don't want them. That's their country. The American Muslims are better off in America than anywhere else. And they will never do anything wrong against their country. That is my directive to you and to them.”
This is not exactly the marching orders you would expect from a man who had been listed in the United States report on terrorism. But Gilani and his followers, in fact, were taken off the list two years ago. And Gilani’s praise for the United States seems to set him apart from so many others in Pakistan.
While Crile was there, it was confirmed that Pearl had been killed. To Khawaja, Pearl’s murder represented a new level of anger moving through the world of militant Muslims. He said that Americans were no longer safe in Pakistan. Transcript "60 Minutes" CBS
Northeast Intelligence Network, compilation by Bill Warner of WBI, Inc.
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Posted by: AMAS | January 15, 2008 at 03:08 PM
Gilani spoke the truth when he outlined the spiritual warfare behind the terrorism. Jesus said "pray for your enemies", but he did not mean to pray for their destruction because he knew his Father would never bless that kind of prayer. We are, instead, to pray for their repentance and salvation for this will bring them out of evil and into the Holy Spirit of the Lord.
Perhaps, as individuals, we will never be able to take up arms against the enemy here in the U.S., but we can pray for their repentance (turning away from evil) and salvation (embracing the fruits of the Holy Spirit - love, peace and joy).
All those who belong to Jesus please join me in one voice and one prayer for the repentance and salvation of Osama, President Ahmadinejad and their followers.
"For where two gather in my name, there I shall be." Jesus
Posted by: Hepzibah | August 30, 2006 at 08:48 AM