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Informant: Islamic Compounds in America are Training for Jihad
Law Enforcement Today ^
| November 16, 2012
| Martin Mawyer
Posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:53:04 AM by Perseverando
In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has
decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town
of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town
council members. None of them are elected, of course.
They even boast that their “town” provides departments of education, medical, finance and land development services.
This Islamic compound has truly become a city-state. Though not
recognized as a legitimate township by the City of Hancock, this Islamic
community nevertheless enforces its own laws on the “citizens” within
its borders. They do so by using the iron fist of Sharia law.
I
interviewed a member of this camp, which sits deep in the Catskills
Mountains of upstate New York. The Islamic group that has established
this camp is part a network known as Muslims of the Americas (MOA),
which has documented links to Al Qaeda.
MOA has established
similar villages in nearly three-dozen locations nationwide, with other
prominent camps found in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
California and Tennessee.
The man I interviewed, Ali Aziz,
painted a shocking picture of what life is like to live inside these
camps and how many of their members engage in terrorist training
activities. Aziz, an Egyptian Muslim, worked as an undercover informant
for eight years for the New York Police Department (NYPD). During that
time, he lived on MOA camps and worked closely with MOA leadership, all
the time supplying the NYPD with information about illegal activity on
the camps—including guerilla combat training.
Aziz was drawn
into the life of an informant after police arrested him years ago on a
passport violation. Aziz was fluent in both English and Arabic, and he
had been an Olympic Judo athlete.
“I knew the martial arts,” he
said, “which (MOA) liked. I could teach them Arabic. I could teach them
how to read the Quran.” He was welcome with open arms by MOA members and
its leaders.
I have visited the outside of the Hancock compound
a couple times and flown over it once. It’s typical of virtually every
other MOA camp. It’s in a heavily wooded area off the beaten path, with
mostly battered trailers and homes and a couple of newly constructed
buildings thrown into the mix. It has dirt roads lined with old cars,
new cars and junk cars. Wooded debris, discarded scrapings and
demolished buildings can be seen throughout the area, giving it an
unsightly appearance from above.
It has its own graveyard,
similar to those found on other camps. And the property has a couple of
small lakes which have been used as “open areas” to shoot their weapons
across. Not surprisingly, Hancock also has a guard shack to intercept
unwanted visitors.
By all accounts, Hancock—which now calls
itself “The Town of Islamberg”—is the camp that houses the leaders of
MOA and makes decisions for the rest of the camps throughout the United
States.
Aziz provided this shocking information: MOA has created
a secret jihadist army, similar to a guerilla-trained militia, that is
ready to attack American citizens “at one word” from their leader,
Sheikh Gilani.
One of the main purposes of the camps is to
provide guerilla training for the young men—and in some cases the
women—to be prepared for jihad. A videotape that I obtained exclusively
shows MOA members being trained on the Hancock camp, shooting guns,
pretending to attack with knives, practicing slitting throats, and
strangling victims. This chilling video is proof that MOA compounds have
been used to train Islamic terrorists for combat.
Aziz confirmed that the camps have stockpiles of illegal weapons.
Aziz also confirmed what my research had already shown: That the MOA’s
policy was to encourage members to collect as much public assistance as
possible, and the more children they had the more assistance they
received, much of which is returned to Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan.
Aziz explained that the residents of the MOA believe that their top
leader, Sheikh Gilani, is able to travel through space and time, and
that he spies on them at all times. This fear helps keep them from
disobeying the strict laws of MOA and the “town” leaders.
“They think Gilani will turn them into a monkey,” he said.
MOA members are to follow Gilani’s orders blindly and without
questioning. Gilani teaches his followers that “jihad” is their purpose
in life. Aziz confirms that four generations of MOA members have been
brought up on these camps—taught from birth to distrust Americans and to
prepare for jihad. The young men are trained to be criminals. Aziz
calls them “modern warrior slaves.”
For some in the MOA camps,
they’ve never known any other life, said Aziz. Their schooling, where
there is schooling, is laughable, possibly even criminal. In the York,
South Carolina, MOA compound children are taught in a storage shed.
Local authorities are fearful of even discussing how these children are
taught and what they are being taught.
The most vulnerable and
emotionally abused on the camps are women. “They are insecure,” Aziz
said of the women. “They don’t know anything. They don’t know about the
outside world. They depend on everything from a man.”
Many of
the women are forced into polygamous marriages at very early ages,
marriages that take place inside the camps. Aziz calls them “silent”
weddings. Though such “silent” weddings are standard throughout all the
villages, not all marriages are illegal.
More than 90 percent of
the women are on state benefits, Aziz claims, with a portion of this
money going back to Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan. “They have so many kids,”
he said of the women. “Eight kids. Nine kids. They have to raise them
and they don’t have a lot.”
Not a lot of money. Not a lot of
housing. Frequent brutality from their husbands. And a lot of kids.
That’s a woman’s fate on the camps.
Because of their seclusion,
lack of education, forced marriages, fear of beatings, dependency on men
and their religious slavery to Sheikh Gilani and his male lieutenants,
women in the camps are stripped of any independent desire to flee.
“After four generations,” Aziz said, “they are living in their comfort
zone.”
Discipline on the camps is ruthless, and is executed as both punishment and to intimidate followers from ever leaving.
“This is one thing I want you to really believe,” Aziz told me in one
of his most distressed moments during the interview. “If somebody breaks
a command, you could be tied to a tree and hit with sticks. This is
crazy.”
Members are beaten for such violations as cursing,
disobedience to the leaders, lying, using birth control or even watching
programs on TV they’re not supposed to watch.
“Sometimes they
do a crime,” Aziz said, explaining that a “crime” is doing something
forbidden by Sheikh Gilani. “Sometimes they do a crime like that and
they lash you. I gave the NYPD some tapes of evidence of kids getting
beat, women tied to trees, stuff like that. That put me in a bad
situation because I exposed these abuses.”
“I saw a 50-year-old
woman tied to a tree and getting beaten … This is what I think is the
biggest disgrace, the abuse. The only thing is, nobody on the camps says
anything. Of course they’re afraid.”
“Some people are there
because they’re scared,” Aziz said. “They don’t know what to do. They
have their children there. They’re scared of the wrath of Gilani. … They
are so controlled, so brainwashed. It’s crazy.”
Welfare fraud
is rampant. Aziz said that children on the Hancock compound learn at an
early age that it’s OK to commit crimes against non-Muslims and engage
in scams. “A lot of them do welfare fraud. They do all kind of scams.”
Drug dealing is also common and is used as a source of income for MOA.
“The drug money goes back to Gilani,” Aziz said, referring to their
terrorist leader who rules them from Pakistan.
“I gave the NYPD enough information to shut the camps down,” he said.
That evidence included: The sexual abuse of women. The physical abuse
of children. The failure to educate girls. Such criminal activity as
drug running, welfare fraud and illegal weapons. And worse.
Ali
said, “I would get into trouble if I told you everything I was providing
the NYPD. It would violate my immunity. I was providing information to
the NYPD about people who committed some very serious crimes. I’m
talking about…” And then he stopped and asked, “What is worse crime you
can commit?”
Ali never answered that open-ended question, riffed
with imaginative answers. But he left no question about the goal of MOA
and their city-states that they are forming across America.
“The ultimate purpose,” Ali said, “is to be ready when the time is right.”
“You walk up to them and ask them, ‘What do you want to do?’ ‘I want to
fight for Gilani.’ That’s what they want,” Ali said. “It’s not good.”
Martin Mawyer is the Founder and President of Christian
Action Network, a non-profit public advocacy and education group based
in Lynchburg, Virginia. He began his career as a freelance journalist
and has authored several books, including “Silent Shame,” “The
Pro-Family Contract With America,” “Pathways to Success,” and his most
recent, “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamic Terrorist
Training Camps Inside America.” He has produced a number of documentary
films, including Homegrown Jihad, Islam Rising, Sacrificed Survivors and
America’s Islamic Threat. Mawyer has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor,
Hannity, Larry King Live, Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, NBC’s Today Show,
Entertainment Tonight and Fox and Friends. His latest book, “Twilight in
America,” co-authored by Patti A. Pierucci, details the activities of
Islamic terrorist training camps scattered throughout the United States.
It can be purchased atTwilightInAmerica.com, or Amazon.com in book or
Kindle version.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption;
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To: Perseverando
And they want to take away our guns??
2
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:58:58 AM
by
Sacajaweau
To: Perseverando
Welfare supplies the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
They have the evidence, but will do nothing.
Remember what just TWO UNTRAINED guys just did? Boston?
Remember the TWO untriained snipers of DC a few years ago?
Remember the mess(es)?
Remember the DENIAL? STILL?
Lock and load, boys and girls. This will NOT end well.
3
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:00:27 AM
by
Flintlock
("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
To: Flintlock
Butttttt.........
They only have SEVEN rounds in their magazines, eh CommieCoumo??
For anti-deer combat, I suppose.
4
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:02:16 AM
by
Flintlock
("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
To: Perseverando
"We will murder and rape all Americans who deserve it.
This has all been arranged by our Obama
and your stupid passive Congress."
5
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:02:58 AM
by
Diogenesis
(De Oppresso Liber)
To: Perseverando
Bttt.5.56mm
6
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:04:55 AM
by
M Kehoe
To: Perseverando
What part of
Sura 4:89 “seize them and slay them wherever you find them:
or
Sura 9:29-33 “Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God,
Is giving us trouble in the comprehension department?
7
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:05:32 AM
by
rawcatslyentist
("The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up" Jeremiah 50:32)
To: Perseverando
That evidence included: The sexual abuse of women. The physical
abuse of children. The failure to educate girls. Such criminal activity
as drug running, welfare fraud and illegal weapons. And worse.
The pretext for attacking the compound at Waco was illegal weapons and
supposed child abuse. Looks like these 'compounds' are guilty of those
violations and many more. So, where are the feds? Looks like more
special treatment for the Moslems, and I think these compounds have been
around for years.
8
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:09:56 AM
by
Will88
To: Perseverando
There is no place for Islam in America.
9
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:10:37 AM
by
ransacked
To: Perseverando
10
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:10:47 AM
by
onyx
(Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
To: Perseverando
11
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:11:11 AM
by
EBH
(Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; penelopesire; maggief; Jim Robinson; DJ MacWoW; KC_Lion; MestaMachine; ...
Important article.
12
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:13:51 AM
by
onyx
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To: EBH
The only reason the muzzies in America get away with those compounds is because they are Muzzies.
Otherwise, they would be treated to a Waco result.
13
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:14:16 AM
by
dforest
(I have now entered the Twilight Zone.)
To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
14
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:14:31 AM
by
onyx
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To: Sacajaweau
A nice Daisy Cutter would clear the land.
15
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:15:13 AM
by
angcat
To: Perseverando
No way are those jihadis. Finger is off the trigger. And aren’t those weapons now illegal in NY?
Scary stuff if true
16
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:15:56 AM
by
jughandle
To: Perseverando
bttt
To: rawcatslyentist
and..
& ayat 8:12 “I will instill terror...” who is “I” & who is the first to coined terror ?
18
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:20:33 AM
by
SIRTRIS
To: jughandle
Scary stuff if true This is not the first report about
this group(s). Do a little research and you will find reports dating
back to before 2004. It is true. And it is amazing if a Patriot Militia
Group did such a thing...how fast it would be raided. Why not these
crazy islamic cults?
19
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:21:01 AM
by
EBH
(Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
To: Perseverando
I sent this information years ago to Peter King, my Congressional
reps and the FBI, along with a DVD produced by Christian Action
Network. No one gives a damn. Maybe some of our retired SPECOPS patriots
will take the initiative since our government is no longer functioning.
To: onyx
Chilling! This is outrageous!
Yet, Obama and DHS are running around spying on white, conservative, Christians, preppers and/or people who just like guns.
All the while these islamist animals are highly armed, breaking the
laws of this country,abusing women, children and plotting to kill
Americans.
Thanks for the ping!
21
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:32:49 AM
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
To: Perseverando
“I gave the NYPD enough information to shut the camps down,” he said.
That evidence included: The sexual abuse of women. The physical abuse
of children. The failure to educate girls. Such criminal activity as
drug running, welfare fraud and illegal weapons. And worse.
Will anything be done? I doubt it. If this was a Christian community maybe (remember Waco?).
22
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:35:17 AM
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: Perseverando
“other prominent camps found in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, California and Tennessee.”
Where, exactly?
23
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:45:06 AM
by
KeyLargo
To: Perseverando
Incredible if true.It isn’t really surprising but it is still a
shock to see it right there...training in America to kill Americans.The
authorities will be all over this place like a rash yes? yes?
24
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:47:15 AM
by
mitch5501
("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
To: Perseverando
4 later
25
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:47:37 AM
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: Sacajaweau
This is part of the reasons that the Moslem president and his
Moslem/Islamist administration want to take away our guns. We still have
more than they do.
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:48:43 AM
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: Perseverando
Bump for later
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:53:06 AM
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: patriotsblood
No one gives a damnThey DO give a damn! But they are on
the other side. It is coming down to the citizenry vs the
jihadist/Moslem government.Most members of the government are not
Moslems but they expect the Moslems will rule and want to be live
dhimmis instead of dead infidels. Unfortunately, once the Moslems
control it all the dhimmis will die, too.
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:53:06 AM
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: ransacked; All
Well there is thing called the Constitution.
29
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:53:38 AM
by
KevinDavis
(The Bill of Rights is suicide pact.)
To: Perseverando
How is it the guy in the front has (what appears to be) a PK LMG?
What, he went through a background check and was approved by his local
sheriff, made the applications to the ATF, and paid the $200 tax?
30
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:54:10 AM
by
misanthrope
(Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
To: KeyLargo
31
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:54:41 AM
by
EBH
(Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
To: EBH
Islamicfinder.net. Know where your local Muslim armory is and be prepared to burn it down.
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:59:30 AM
by
wrencher
To: onyx; Hardraade; penelopesire; maggief; Jim Robinson; DJ MacWoW; KC_Lion; MestaMachine
33
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:10:45 AM
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Diogenesis
Who took that picture, where and when. If it was taken in the
U.S., the guy with the belt fed full auto machine gun is probably
committing a Federal felony if he either doesn’t have a machine gun
license or the gun was either made or imported after 1986. Also, what
about the other AKs in the picture; are they full auto or only semi-auto
and, if full auto, are they properly licensed and possessed? IOW this
picture alone, if properly authenticated and taken in the U.S., could
easily provide basis for a search warrant to search one of those camps.
To: penelopesire
To: wrencher
trying to locate on google earth.
36
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:25:30 AM
by
sopwith
(don't tread on me)
To: Perseverando
No s*** Sherlock.
37
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:27:11 AM
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: EBH
Simple Patriot Militia Groups are the enemy of the Government. The
Muslim Militias are useful idiots that keep citizens clamoring for less
freedom and more security. Id est bigger and more federal guberment.
Never let a crisis go to waste and never destroy your boogieman.
38
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:28:11 AM
by
urbanpovertylawcenter
(where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
To: Perseverando
Every moslem on
earth...young,old,male,female,American,British,Middle
Eastern,black,white...is a potential (or real) enemy of the West in
general and the US in particular.
EVERY SINGLE ONE!
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:45:48 AM
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: Perseverando
They are protected by the 1st Amendment as preparing for war is a tenet of Islam.
40
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:45:49 AM
by
Oratam
To: MestaMachine
Thanks Mesta!!
41
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:04:24 AM
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
To: Perseverando
And they use the term “Soldiers of Allah” a lot. Kinda like that
one “workplace violence” dude? (Major Nidal Hasan for those of you in
Rio Linda).
42
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:06:57 AM
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: EBH
Thanks
43
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:07:58 AM
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
44
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:23:35 AM
by
EBH
(Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
To: Diogenesis
For what it is worth, the photo is most definately NOT from the
compund in Hancock, New York. Also, Hanccock is located about 3 hours
northwest of NYC and therefore, the NYPD lacks jurisdiction over the
camp no matter how much inside information this guy provides. The FBI,
DHS, NYS Troopers, Deleware County Sheriff’s Department, Town of Hancock
Zoning Department, or NYC Department of Environmental Conservation
could shut this place down in a heartbeat if they wanted to, but I
suspect they would rather keep the place open so they can monitor the
“campers” than close the place down and force them to disperse and go
underground.
To: onyx; IsraelBeach; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam; ...
I'll say.Thanks for the ping.
46
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:29:30 AM
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
To: Perseverando
The cockroaches are here and they ARE intending to take this
country. Meanwhile the politically correct are standing around with
their heads up their up their collective a$$e$ trying to look all
inclusive. Islam IS NOT a religion, it is a political movement and the
sooner it is recognized as such the sooner we can begin to save
ourselves. Lock and load! See tagline.
47
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:34:42 AM
by
JayAr36
(In a compromise between good and evil, evil ALWAYS BENEFITS.)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; ExSoldier; metmom
Islamberg Ping.
48
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:47:02 AM
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Perseverando
Tamerlin could have saved a plane ticket and commuted to jihad training school.
49
posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:05:46 AM
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: misanthrope
Ya’ know, I’m thinking that is not a picture of upstate NY. Those look like olive trees. Are olive trees common in upstate NY?
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posted on
Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:12:12 AM
by
super7man
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