The Jihadists in America | Print | E-mail
Written by Selwyn Duke
Monday, 21 December 2009 00:00
It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and bustle and crime are very far away. Yet, like a pig in a beauty contest, within this pastoral setting lies something incongruent: a Jihadist training center. In this compound, women are taught to slit throats and mount assault-weapon attacks and, presumably, some brand of Islamic piety is the order of the day. But this place isn’t found in the Mideast’s Fertile Crescent or in sub-Saharan Africa. It's name is Islamberg. It's in the town of Hancock.

And it's in upstate New York.

Part of a network of 35 such compounds in the United States associated with Muslims of the Americas (MOA) — which was founded by a radical Pakistani cleric commonly known as Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani — Islamberg has long been suspected of having terrorist aims. And now evidence for this has emerged in the form of a “chillingâ€