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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: Clovis_Skeptic
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321 posted on 11/09/2001 11:19:16 AM PST by snorkeler
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To: Grampa Dave
I would be surprised if there was not some form of fanatic Islamics in the Las Vegas area

Vegas is tight but 100 miles south is not. Laughlin, Kingman, Bullhead City, Needles. People can zip between 3 states in half an hour. Mojave County, AZ is as corrupt as any in Arkansas. It is a magnet for criminals. At the risk of being called down for profiling, there are likely suspects there.

322 posted on 11/09/2001 11:22:18 AM PST by LarryLied
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To: Humidston
Aha! That's where that giant sucking sound was coming from!
324 posted on 11/09/2001 1:04:14 PM PST by MistyCA
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To: Otis-James
>And then the liberals tell our own children that "we have always been a nation of immigrants 'FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD'". Oh yea?

It's interesting to speculate about the whole meaning within the "melting pot" metaphor.

1) If you look up "melting pot" in the encarta dictionary, it says:

"Melting Pot, image of the United States as a foundry that combines the different component metals—represented by immigrants from various countries—into the new metal, Americans.
(But when you think about it that doesn't make much sense because most media liberals went to college and such people would certainly know that only _pure_ metals are good for most things and when metals are all junked together you get, well, junk... )

2) On the other hand, many Christians like to point out that the image of a "melting pot" is very similar to the image of a witch's cauldron and if you look up "caldron" in encarta you get:

1. pot for boiling: a large metal pot in which liquids are boiled
2. dangerous and tense situation: a situation of great tension, unrest, and stressfulness "He is heading into a caldron in the House of Representatives." U.S. News & World Report (1998)
(Seems much more to the point! A "melting pot" is what the old hags stand over, saying, Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...)

Mark W.

325 posted on 11/09/2001 1:41:56 PM PST by MarkWar
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To: Grampa Dave
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326 posted on 11/09/2001 2:17:54 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: Grampa Dave
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327 posted on 11/09/2001 2:36:07 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: Otis-James
Welcome - you're in the right place (pun intended)!
328 posted on 11/09/2001 3:36:21 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: TrueBeliever9
I heard they have a camp where they train the children in jihad outside of Chicago.

Source? If you've got anything specific, I'd like to know it and might be able to do something about it.

329 posted on 11/09/2001 3:39:11 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: MarkWar
We can make reasonable guesses based on past history of domestic terrorist groups & cults and the Fed's response to them.

For the past 8 years we've had a clown, a buffoon, no... a CORRUPT clown buffoon, packing every key slot in D.C. with his corrupt/globalist lackeys. Eight long years of slackers, liars, and the elitist leftists. Virtually all this crap happened on the clown's watch. And he did nothing, right?

Now we're playing catch up. Bush is frantically moving key people into crucial slots and I firmly believe he is a good honest man who genuinely loves America and sees the dangers we're all facing.

I say, let's give him a chance to turn this nightmare around before we start picking on him.

330 posted on 11/09/2001 3:57:45 PM PST by Humidston
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To: Clovis_Skeptic; ladyinred
I dont have much time cause I have to go Freep and wave my flag for the troops.......but I do want y'all to know that I did a search today and found that Baladullah's taxpayers supported charter school is called Gateway.....and the registered contact name, has a downtown Fresno address, which turns out to be on the corner of F street & Tulare, in the Chinatown Gallery. When I drove by at noon a black man was coming out wearing fez, and a dashiki, and jumped into a Mercedes........What is my point......well, the contatct address is some 45 minutes away from Baladullah in an old part of Fresno, and is not a school. Yet, this is where our $1.5 million dollars of tax money is going....there is more ........but I got to go out and wave my flag now.........
332 posted on 11/09/2001 4:46:09 PM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Travis McGee
Thanks for the ping. I've been doing some research on the American Muslims. They choose not to send their children to American public schools, have many aid organizations/fundraisers to finance Muslim schools and scholarships. There are Muslim schools in most American cities.

You might be interested in doing a Google search on "Global Islamic Movement," or:

Muslim Brotherhood Movement Homepage:

Theme

Allah is our objective.
The messenger is our leader.
Quran is our law.
Jihad is our way.
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.

Where one group seeks the destruction of another, "multi-cultures" can never peacefully coexist. This is America, Muhammed.

Israelis know.

333 posted on 11/09/2001 5:00:19 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Travis McGee
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. First of all, thanks for the HTML lessons. I am going to learn this!
I am so glad to see so many interested in this thread, thought they would be. This is just so frightening and hard to believe, although I saw it with my own eyes on the television news.
I have contacted the FBI, and am going to contact all political reps in the area. Although I know they know about this, maybe pressure from the public is what they need to get them moving on this!
Thanks for all your participation and help.
334 posted on 11/09/2001 5:21:49 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Humidston
CLARIFICATION: I said, "And he did nothing, right?

I should have said, "And he did nothing - I think we can agree."

And for further clarification: I must admit I'm watching this administration with trepidation. Bush has been in office for 10 mths and frankly, I would have expected him to have gotten a handle on this situation sooner than Sept 12th.

I don't want you to think I'm naive.... I've been around long enough to know we must be vigilant. Maybe I'm just more patient than most...

335 posted on 11/09/2001 5:32:23 PM PST by Humidston
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To: ladyinred
Bump to track this thread.

I sent E mail to two people that live in Central CA (one is in law enforcement) with text of SacBee article and asked if they had specific knowledge of the Islamic compound.

336 posted on 11/09/2001 5:36:46 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: Nita Nupress
Thank you for that article.
The longer this gets and the more I read the worse this becomes. I am just astonished this group is allowed to have these little "villages" in this country seemingly with no interference from the authorities.
This is heavy stuff, and I appreciate everyone's participation in this thread. The President told us to be vigilant afterall.
337 posted on 11/09/2001 5:41:40 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Otis-James
What a snot the Jap-American was. I've lived with these people for 25 years, and I can tell you they LIVE to glom onto gov't. jobs- whethyer local, state, or federal. And they're vastly over represented in all levels of Hawaii gov't. relative to their numbers in the population.

Yeah. Political hacks feeding at the public trough. Like the Irish and the Italians here in Taxachusetts. What we need here is a hack holocaust!

I see real similarities between the WWII Japanese problem, and the Muslim problem.

We will be fortunate if the Muslim American problem proves no more serious than the Japanese American problem did. Actually, I've already read more reports of British and American Muslim traitors than there ever were of Japanese American traitors.

338 posted on 11/09/2001 5:46:40 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: harpseal
Thank you harpseal. I would also like to thank in advance anyone else who has contacts who will see that this information gets to them.
The information here is certainly something that we must all take seriously. We are at war and some of the enemy is within.(a little closer than I like to think about in this case) So,

LET'S ROLL!

339 posted on 11/09/2001 5:49:37 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: F-117A
Just in case, because this thread is now so long, you didn't see this on thread one, the news reports quoted the murdered deputy's partner saying that the suspect appeared to have had SNIPER training when he carried out the murder. He was lying in wait for the officers to enter the home where the shooting took place. This was no ordinary robbery, and if I remember correctly, nothing was taken.
340 posted on 11/09/2001 5:55:15 PM PST by ladyinred
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