Islamberg New YorkOn the outskirts of Hancock, New York, in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains is a 70-acre Islamic compound.

This Islamic community is radically anti-American and serves as a military training compound for those who would do jihad on the United States. Even so, it operates as a tax-exempt organization on American soil.

Visitors to the compound are not allowed. Even the local undertaker is not allowed on the compound. Armed men guard the entrances.

From the Canada Free Press

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?”

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.”

Muslims of America

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; Tulare Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.

Members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have criminal histories that include convictions for assassinations, conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers’ compensation fraud.

This group has never been included on the official US Terror Watch List. Instead, it operates as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity.

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The source of the story above gives an update that a blogger carrying this story has been threatened.

Someone didn’t like the story and that someone threatened the life of U.S. war veteran and blogger Scott Grayban.

Grayban publishes blog.borgnet.us. in Spokane, Washington.

CFP receives thousands of emails from readers. The one from Grayban’s blogger friend caught our immediate attention.

The blogger, whose name is being withheld by CFP, hoped flagging the Internet might protect Grayban’s physical safety if someone publicized the two threats made on his life over the telephone.

That is the reason for this story.

Grayban received two phone calls on Sunday night from a foreigner, threatening his life.

“The caller used a hacked phone (or internet line) to disguise the location from which he was calling. (Please see jpeg of record/caller ID attached at bottom of page).

“The caller told Scott the precise street on which he lives, that he lives across from an auto shop, that he has a solar panel in his apartment window and the make of the car he drove to the mall on Saturday.”

As the blogger pointed out, “These aren’t details anyone could obtain from Google Earth.”

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I wrote about a similar compound in Georgia a couple of months ago: Is There a Muslim Compound in Odum Georgia
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Read more at Scott’s Blog, Jihad Watch