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Informant: Islamic Compounds in America are Training for Jihad
Law Enforcement Today ^ | November 16, 2012 | Martin Mawyer

Posted on 04/28/2013 4:53:04 AM PDT 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; Government; US: New York; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; islam; islamberg; jihad; jihadinamerica; moa; muslimsoftheamericas; newyork; sharia; sheikhgilani; terrorcells; terrorism; trainingcamps; tsarnaev; waronterror
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To: MestaMachine

Thanks Mesta!!


41 posted on 04/28/2013 7:04:24 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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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 04/28/2013 7:06:57 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: EBH

Thanks


43 posted on 04/28/2013 7:07:58 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388394/posts


44 posted on 04/28/2013 7:23:35 AM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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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.


45 posted on 04/28/2013 7:26:22 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: onyx; IsraelBeach; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam; ...
I'll say.

Thanks for the ping.

46 posted on 04/28/2013 7:29:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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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 04/28/2013 7:34:42 AM PDT by JayAr36 (In a compromise between good and evil, evil ALWAYS BENEFITS.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; ExSoldier; metmom

Islamberg Ping.


48 posted on 04/28/2013 7:47:02 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Perseverando

Tamerlin could have saved a plane ticket and commuted to jihad training school.


49 posted on 04/28/2013 8:05:46 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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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?


50 posted on 04/28/2013 8:12:12 AM PDT by super7man
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To: Perseverando

The camp in Clover, SC is about 10-15 miles from a nuclear reactor.


51 posted on 04/28/2013 8:28:05 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Perseverando
Let's assume that there's another large Muslim attack on one or several large American cities with thousands of casualties. What's going to happen?

1. The MSM will run around blaming the vast right wing conspiracy, NRA, Christians, and psychotic veterans. When they can't sell that lie any longer, they'll shift to “What have we done to make them hate us?” mode.
2. Big Sis will turn out the DHS thugs to terrorize the populace. Big city mayors will turn out the cops and SWAT teams to stand around, shoot up the countryside, and collect overtime pay. The Muslim perps will get a pass unless some civilian comes up with the evidence that's so damning it cannot be ignored.
3. POTUS will dither and tell us how this isn't an act of terrorism but a misplaced act of Muslim “lone wolves”.
4. Liberals will have to be put on major antidepressants because their best allies in destroying America have embarrassed them yet again.
5. People in these stricken large metro areas will mill about like frightened sheep, bleating for government to save them from everyone else except the real Muslim terrorists. They will do this because it would spoil our “diversity” and interfere with the PC bubbles they call their “lives”.

Yup, I think I've got the script down pat. The Boston Marathon Bombing was just a small scale preview of things to come. As the song says: “looks like we're in for nasty weather; there's a bad moon on the rise”.

52 posted on 04/28/2013 8:38:14 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Perseverando

bookmarked. thanks.


53 posted on 04/28/2013 8:41:48 AM PDT by Sal (Pres and DOS watched our people get raped + murdered in REAL TIME-did nothing and don't care!)
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To: Sacajaweau

[[And they want to take away our guns??]]

Yes, yes they do, and htis is precisely why- Dissarm law abidign citizens so that violent jihadists won’t face any serious opposition when they launch their war on the west- I woudl not be oen bit surprised if our govenrment is beign bought off by the jihadists to look the other way-

I’ts amazing how fast our govenrment moves in to burn down organizations liek htey did in Waco texas and Ruby Ridge, but then turn aroudn and do NOTHING abotu places liek islamberg where peopel are coming out from undercover and warnign our govenrment that we’ve got seriosu terrorists in trainign right in our own back yards-


54 posted on 04/28/2013 8:54:56 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: EBH

VA, TN, AL, SC, GA, MI, OK, TX???!!!

Attention rednecks...what the hell y’all been doing?


55 posted on 04/28/2013 8:58:42 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: Will88

[[looks like more special treatment for the Moslems, and I think these compounds have been around for years.]]

Absolutely they’ve been aroudn for years- the public by and large has not been aware of it but our govnrment most certainly has and they’ve ignored them or perhaps even gone so far as to give them special privileges not afforded regular law abiding citizens-

In France- there are whole districts that are compeltely muslim sharia law run where police will NOT go for fear of being murdered- France allowed them to infiltrate and take over france’s legal system by replacign their legal system with Sharia law, and now they’ve got a seriosu problem o ntheir hands- We’re headign i nthe same exact direction too- Thanks to our capitulating to islam govenrment


56 posted on 04/28/2013 8:58:57 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: patriotsblood

[[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 you shoudl resend him thsi article, and say “I sent you this infromatio nyears ago and haven’t heard back fro myou- What’s the deal? Do you folks in washington just not give a damn? What if this were white supremacy group, or a White Christian doomsday preperation group? Do you in washington Represent we the peopel or not? Why no answer from you?


57 posted on 04/28/2013 9:02:26 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: penelopesire

[[yet, Obama and DHS are running around spying on white, conservative, Christians, preppers and/or people who just like guns.]]

Perhaps peopel at town hall meetings that are discussing gun laws shoudl be standign up and asking “Well you want to confiscate our guns, but what about dissarmign islamic groups like islamasberg in NY and 34 other groups all across Aemrica that apapfrently are trainign for jihad?

Would be priceless to see the left scramble to deny there’s any such groups


58 posted on 04/28/2013 9:04:30 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: mitch5501

[[but it is still a shock to see it right there...training in America to kill Americans.]]

What’s even more shickign is the FACT tbhat we the peopel are no doubt forced to fund it via our tax dollars goign to support thsoe muslims somehow soem way- (Remember, the l;atest bombers in boston were all on welfare)


59 posted on 04/28/2013 9:06:10 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop
In France- there are whole districts that are compeltely muslim sharia law run where police will NOT go for fear of being murdered

That sounds like a call to action for their special forces and military. Why wouldn't moslems commandeering territory and killing police be considered an act of war?

60 posted on 04/28/2013 9:07:45 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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