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Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno?
KFSN TV 30 Fresno, CA ^ | 11-07-01 | Kevin Quinn

Posted on 11/08/2001 8:14:41 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic

.Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno? There's an airstrip and neighbors complain of gunfire. Kevin Quinn takes you inside Baladullah, California.

Sorry, no transcript as of now. Video only. Worth the effort to view.

The video provides a look at this compound in the foothills above Fresno, CA. Pre 9-11, a Fresn County Sheriffs deputy was killed by a member of this peaceful Islamic community. The suspect (in the beginning trial phase still) broke into a empty nearby foothill home, when deputies arrived this guy was lying in the hallway floor with a rifle, and killed one deputy. This video is the first investigative reporting we have had on this Islamic community. The trail leads to FUQRA, a known terrorist group operating all over the world, and have several communities such as this one all over the USA.

Here is an excerpt from an article of the Sacramento Bee...

California links of terrorists probed:
Federal and state investigators try to unearth 'sleeper' agents.
By Sam Stanton and Andy Furillo
Bee Staff Writers

(Published Sept. 30, 2001)

The compound Beyond seeking out ties to bin Laden-linked terrorist networks, officials are keeping tabs on another Islamic group near Fresno because of the recent killing of a sheriff's deputy in an area home, apparently stemming from a botched burglary.(this was no burglary according to all accounts)

There is no evidence that the Fresno group has been involved in any terrorist activities, officials say.

The group, according to a federal source, is part of Fuqra, an organization whose name means "poverty" in Arabic and which has had compounds in several U.S. areas.

Some Fuqra members in other areas have been implicated in past years in domestic terrorist attacks, and the State Department has labeled the group, known formally as Jamaat ul-Fuqra, as "an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence."

The group south of Fresno operates an 1,800-acre compound called the International Quranic Open University, which sits on the former site of the drug addiction recovery cult Synanon.

The compound, a series of mobile homes shaded by trees, also serves as a U-Haul rentals location. A resident there last week refused to talk to a reporter, referring inquiries to a Visalia attorney who did not respond to a message seeking information.

Authorities have been studying the compound since the Aug. 21 slaying of Fresno County Sheriff's Deputy Erik Telen. Officials charged 20-year-old Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah with murder in the killing, apparently stemming from a botched burglary at a rural home.

James Oppliger, Fresno County's chief deputy district attorney, said the suspect claimed he had been living at the compound seeking psychiatric treatment from the Quranic university.

Oppliger said he since has begun studying the group and its possible connections to other organizations.

(Zavia Books) is the bookstore for this Islamic compound. It is called Koranic Open University. Note the books being sold. One of them is prefaced by ( Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani [Gilani]) a known terrorist. The trail leads from Baladullah (actually Miramonte, CA) to Pakistan, where Sheik Gilani lives. He is the head of Fuqra.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: alfuqra; baladullah; fresno; fuqra; gilani; jamaatalfuqra; jihadinamerica; jilani; redcross; trainingcamps; university
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To: George Smiley
I caught part of the piece on Fox last night, they were interviewing a local woman who lives nearby and she was talking about a practice range that the group admits it has "just for practice". The woman says that she regularly hears large scale firing and bursts of fire. It's a practice range all right, for whatever criminal activity they have planned.
581 posted on 01/19/2002 9:57:16 AM PST by RJS1950
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To: pocat
OH HE## THEY WILL SURELY VEIW THE MILITIA AS TERRORISTS BEFORE THE ISLAMICS

ITS MULTICULTURAL DEATH DONT YA KNOW YOU CANT BE AN AMERICAN AND BE A PATRIOT AT THE SAME TIME UNLESS YOUR A PATRIOT AGAINST THE US THATS THE LIBERAL WAY !!!

582 posted on 01/19/2002 1:47:31 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: Saundra Duffy
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583 posted on 01/22/2002 10:22:06 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: Jihad in America
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584 posted on 01/23/2002 7:27:59 PM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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Fuqra connections:

Key arrest made in WSJ reporter kidnapping

585 posted on 01/30/2002 5:18:33 PM PST by Shermy
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587 posted on 01/30/2002 7:30:01 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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588 posted on 01/30/2002 7:30:03 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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589 posted on 01/30/2002 7:30:03 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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590 posted on 01/30/2002 7:30:04 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: pocat
Foxnews covered this place? Wow, sorry I missed that. At least the school lost it's charter, and the records were seized. The students and their families are crying racism of course, so time will tell what will happen.
591 posted on 01/30/2002 7:34:36 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Grampa Dave,Clovis Skeptic, ladyinred
And now the Pearl Kidnapping is being laid to Al Fuqra, and we are being warned that these "model citizens" might go berserk here in the USA since their head Mullah is under arrest in Pakistan.
592 posted on 02/03/2002 7:27:13 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
May they go beserk and in SC have the unrev Al $harpton marching along with them!

I still want to see what connections exist between Johnny Jihad and this Islamic Village near Fresno!

Your suggestion last month to go to all of these camps and go in retreive spent bullets at their target ranges for future evidence is great one.

593 posted on 02/03/2002 7:41:16 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
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594 posted on 02/03/2002 12:05:09 PM PST by Free Vulcan
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
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595 posted on 02/23/2002 6:20:22 PM PST by Dec31,1999
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To: StoneColdGOP
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596 posted on 03/03/2002 4:39:34 PM PST by timestax
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
It's because (genius) you live in the state the will (has) be (been) infiltrated by the Hollywood "elite" that is so far behind the times it appears to the ignorant masses "a head" that anything goes. The quicker you bizarros figure this out the quicker you might have a prayer. Your cause, however, is so far gone that I am afraid you shall reach this realization at too late. The quake is coming!!!

Ocean front property in Arizona!

597 posted on 03/03/2002 4:53:02 PM PST by t4texas
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To: Grampa Dave
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598 posted on 03/03/2002 4:54:58 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax
Is it still there???!!
599 posted on 03/04/2002 9:02:57 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax
Is it still there???!!


Little left at Baladullah site

I think I'll sleep really well tonight. ;-)

600 posted on 06/15/2002 12:29:33 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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