It's Jihad, Stupid: Three "Soldiers of Allah" Explain To The Politically Correct

Atlas Shrugs and The Rubin Report ^ | 11-16-09 | Barry Rubin

[thouworm]

"Soldier of Allah" NIDAL MALIK HASAN

How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so.

Hasan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.
Hisan's Powerpoint Presentation on Jihad

"Soldier of Allah" SHEIKH MUBARAK GILANI

Gilani, whose organizations oversee 35 jihadist training camps in 22 states in America, is clear about his goals:

"We are not fighting so that the enemy recognizes us and offers something. We are fighting to destroy the enemy. We are dealing with evil at its roots and its roots are America."

“Act like you’re a friend, then kill him just like from the book.”

Gilani calls his members, “Soldiers of Allah,”

Gilani has also drawn a picture for the Obama Administration, Congress, and Eric Holder's DOJ.

Soldiers of Allah – responsible for over 50 attacks on U.S. soil. Homegrown Terrorists – Islamist Training Camps in U.S.

Gilani Jihad Video (Thanks to Freeper Candor7)

"Soldier of Allah" ANWAR AL AWLAKI

Another homegrown jihadist, Awlaki was the infamous spiritual advisor to two 9/11 terrorists and Nidal Malik Hasan, whom he openly praised as a "hero" for his genocidal jihad on unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood.

The admiration was mutual. "One fellow Muslim officer at the base told the Daily Telegraph that the shooting suspect's eyes "lit up" when gushing about Awlaki's teachings." SOURCE

"Whenever you see the word terrorist, replace it with the word mujahid," he says on the video. "Whenever you see the word terrorism, replace it with the word jihad."

[NOTE: Awlaki does NOT tell his followers to replace the word "terrorism" with "man-made disasters," but with the word "JIHAD."]

"Guys like Anwar al Awlaki provide do-it-yourself Islam," Shaikh told the Star. "He's building a fantasy and then pushing them over the edge. It appeals at a very basic level. It's like sheep food and they gobble it up."

In a recent report for ABC, Brian Ross notes that “Awlaki addresses his followers as ‘soldiers of allah’, the SOAs." SOURCE

Awlaki's Video "Soldiers of Allah"

[thouworm]

The following is from a lengthy article. What is presented here is only for purpose of identifying more of Gilani's Jamaat ul Fuqra compounds. (Many may be repeats in previous posts)

While caution sleeps: Terrorists training in North America
By Doug Hagmann & Judi McLeod
Monday, June 11, 2007

The locations are scattered throughout the United States, located mostly in sparsely populated rural locations including:

Jamaat ul Fuqra compounds--Southeastern United States

Marion, Alabama;
Augusta, Georgia;
Commerce, Georgia;
Macon Georgia;
Talihina, Oklahoma;
York County, South Carolina;
Dover, Tennessee;
Red House, Virginia,
Roanoke, Virginia.

Other Jamaat ul Fuqra compounds are located in the states of:

Washington,
Colorado,
Michigan,
California.

Due to occasionally heightened attention and complaints by local residents, some encampments have become more transient over the last several years--moving from one rural location to another.

(Editor's note: Buena Vista, a radical Muslim paramilitary compound referenced in Springtime in Islamberg, a May 11, 2007, story by Dr. Paul Williams posted by CFP [see article link in last post] no longer exists. It was raided by Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers, leading to the prosecution of five ul Fuqra members between 1993 and 1994).

As we previously reported, their North American headquarters is located in Hancock, NY, which is an encampment of trailers, outbuildings, and various other structures spread over a large area that is adjacent to a reservoir that provides dinking water to all five boroughs of the greater New York City area.

Notably, other compounds are situated in the same manner--close to significant infrastructure targets. For example, the Jamaat ul-Fuqra property in Dover, Tennessee is located along a power easement seven miles west of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland Fossil Plant, a plant that produces more power than any other plant in the TVA system. Twelve miles northeast is Fort Campbell, home of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. A CFP reader points out that there was a penal institution near the now defunct Buena Vista compound.

Nearby residents to the compounds report hearing gunfire coming from the compounds, a fact that one resident of Islamberg publicly admitted to John Mazor, a reporter for the New York Post. The article in the New York Post states that "reports of gunfire and military-style physical training at the camp have led some investigators to believe that the group's members are preparing for homegrown jihad." Stated one member of Islamberg: "We got guns up here just like everyone else got guns."

Canada Free Press

[TigersEye]

2. Quotes claiming tortures that he says should be inflicted on infidels are instead tortures in hell after death.

You are right about that and it really chaps me when people who have no excuse for poor research, like Sean Hannity, repeat distortions like that over and over again. It unnecessarily undermines their credibility.

But Hasan's PP presentation wasn't just a simple introduction to or history of Islam. It was focused on jihad and not just the internal spiritual jihad.

Taken as a whole it was like a suicide note giving an explanation or excuse for what he indeed ended up doing. Amazing that the psychiatrists who he gave the presentation to didn't see that.

[Myrddin]

You're judging the content of his "crib" after he gave away most of his stuff before going off on his jihad. There was probably a lot more personal stuff before he cleared it out. The shredder might have been a last minute purchase to "clean up" his paper trail. Why scrimp? You aren't expecting to have a need to make that remaining money stretch until the next payday.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Disturbing facts....ping.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reference Item:

Fort Hood Texas: Free Republic Archives

[Fred Nerks]

Commend your dedication to the truth. Most disturbing.

[thouworm]

Before you go, you might want to read about one blogger's visit to the Jamaat ul-Fuqra compound in Red House, Virginia:

Monday, October 10, 2005
Jamaat ul-Fuqra in Virginia, Part 1
by Baron Bodissey

During the Beltway Sniper crisis, back in the fall of 2002, a series of articles in The Washington Times described John Allen Muhammad’s conversion to Islam, and his later break with the Nation of Islam (the articles are no longer available, but extracts have been preserved here).

Apparently the NOI was not militant enough for Mr. Muhammad, and he left it to become involved with a group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra (Arabic for “community of the impoverished”), a terrorist organization founded by a notorious Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani.

What drew my eye in the article was the mention of a Jamaat ul-Fuqra compound in Red House, Virginia. Red House?! I know Red House — a small village in rural Charlotte County.

Ever since then I’ve been curious to know more about the Red House compound. This past Saturday afternoon, carrying a digital camera and a great apprehension about possible encounters with some reportedly very dangerous people, I drove up there.

(snip - much more on jihad activities in article)

A Defense Watch article in 2002 outlines the activities of the Red House compound:

"Surveillance reports of the compounds note that the residents remain in a fluid state and are continuously on the move. For the past several years, law enforcement authorities observing the Red House, VA compound have voiced concern that this pattern may be designed to create a series of safe houses in the rural areas of southern Virginia.

[…]
The Red House, Va., compound was under surveillance by law enforcement prior to the 9/11 attacks for stockpiling weapons. Three members of the compound, including leader Vincente Pierre and his wife Tracy Upshur, were later arrested for illegal arms purchases."

So this is all I knew as I drove through Rustburg toward Red House on a gloomy Saturday afternoon.

Red House is a crossroads hamlet with two stores, one of them a modern truck plaza with multiple pump canopies and a convenience store, and the other a traditional little country story with a couple of pumps in front and an unpaved parking lot. I chose the latter store to visit, since it seemed more likely to be a source of local news and gossip.

After waiting in line at the counter, I asked the proprietor if he had heard of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, an Islamist organization. He looked at me blankly. I mentioned that they had a compound near Red House, on Route 615.

“Oh, you mean the Muslims,” he said. “They come in here sometimes.”

I asked him where they were, and he indicated that they were about three miles east on Route 615. “They’ve got a sign up — you can’t miss it.”

He seemed reluctant to give further information on the subject, perhaps not wanting to gossip to a stranger about his (presumably well-armed) neighbors and customers.

However, outside the store I struck up an acquaintance with a local woman named Shirley. I showed her some of the printouts I had made from web articles about ul-Fuqra, and she was very interested; she proved to have a wealth of local lore on the subject.

As far as Shirley could recall, the commune has been in that location for at least ten years. She said that back before September 11th the members of Jamaat would appear from time to time in the community wearing Islamic garb (robes and head coverings), but mostly only the males.

According to Shirley,

"It made me so mad, what the county let them get away with. They sent the boys to school, but not the girls — the girls stayed home at the compound."

But why didn’t the county do something about it?

"I think they were scared of them."

Didn’t they even send Social Services in there to check on them?

"No, I don’t think they did anything. Supposedly they’re “home-schooled,” but who knows?"

Two or three weeks before 9/11, the members of the compound constructed a guard house and a gate at the entrance to their commune. After 9/11 and the FBI arrests, they kept a lower profile. According to the store owner, they still come in from time to time, but he doesn’t see them very often. The men dress in normal clothes now, but when the women come to the village they still wear the hijab.

Shirley said that there are other Jamaat locations besides the compound. One of her hobbies is historical research, and recently she was tracking down old homesteads in the wilds of Charlotte County. Her maps led her down a back-country lane, a non-state route through the wilderness that required a four-wheel drive to negotiate.

When she neared the old homesteads she was looking for, she was surprised to find an establishment with a sign that identified it as a “Training Camp for Young Muslim-American Men.”

"There were a lot of men there, and some boys, and they came up to us to ask us what we were doing. I was a little bit scared, you know, asking their permission to go back and look at the ruins of the house. They weren’t real helpful, just pointed us in the general direction. We never did find the place."

This “training camp” was across Route 615 and a couple of miles from the main compound on Rolling Hill Road.

According to Shirley, Jamaat ul-Fuqra operated some kind of jewelry-and-essential-oils business at a kiosk at a Lynchburg Mall. A friend of hers who worked at UPS reported that the men running the kiosk would come in to collect C.O.D. packages from New York, and pay for them with large amounts of cash. Her friend didn’t understand how they could acquire such quantities of money from the kind of business they ran at the Mall.

I floated the idea that it might be a money-laundering operation. Perhaps they brought in drugs from their Central Asian contacts, and then laundered the money to buy their firearms and run their camps. Pure speculation on my part, but…

What we do know is that an organization with a history of violence had set up shop locally, refused to let its girl children go to school, and had top members arrested and convicted by the FBI for firearms violations. In addition they have set up a remote and isolated “Training Camp for Young Muslim-American Men” — to train young men for what? Auto repair? The food service industry? I have my doubts.

Shirley offered an additional tantalizing piece of information: there is yet another Muslim school, about 30 miles south of Red House in a little town called Randolph.

"It’s way out in the middle of nowhere, and you can’t see it from the road, but there’s a sign that says, “American Muslim College.”"

After exchanging contact information with Shirley, I got back in my car, went through the crossroads, and headed up the Rolling Hill Road towards the compound. Along the way I passed the Red House Volunteer Fire Department, the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the Beautiful Zion Baptist Church, and numerous modest little houses, double-wides, and trailers, with pickup trucks and boats out front and dog kennels in the back, the normal human landscape of rural Southside Virginia.

As I came around a bend I saw the compound ahead. There was a big green sign near the road in Arabic and English, with a little cinderblock guardhouse next to it flying an unidentifiable flag. Beyond the entrance numerous trailers were scattered across the hillside, fairly close together in fields of waist-high unkempt weeds. No one was in sight.

I noticed the road sign at the entrance: “Sheikh Gilani Lane,” just as described in the South Asia Terrorism Portal article.

I was already quite scared, and there was a car behind me, so I didn’t stop. I continued along 615 until a side road afforded an opportunity to turn off. The car behind me kept on going — Whew! No ul-Fuqra people were after me.

I turned around and headed back towards the compound, and slowed when I approached the entrance, but this time there was a car pulling out of the compound as I got there. Once again, I continued on past the entrance and went on a mile or two until I could turn around.

The third time past I felt very conspicuous, so I balanced the camera on the steering wheel and tried to take a picture as I very slowly passed the entrance. Unfortunately, in my fumbling, I took a small video segment of the entrance instead by mistake, from which I was able to obtain the blurry screenshot shown below. You can see the sign, the guardhouse, and the flag, but, unfortunately, I couldn’t make the sign legible.

I wanted to try for a photo of the “Sheikh Gilani Lane” sign, so I drove down and turned around one more time for a fourth pass. This time I had a car coming up behind me, and this was my last chance. So I took a hurried photo through the windshield, but the gathering gloom of the storm plus the slight motion of the car made the result useless.

These results are less than satisfactory, but they will have to do.

There are a lot of interesting comments; go and look at all of them. But the best one so far is this Virtual Earth image link sent by PoliticalCP. His blog post is here (see link at Gates of Vienna)

[thouworm]

I somewhat "finessed" the title of this thread and url to keep it off a vanity or blog category because I thought the information and possible connections too important not to get as much FR attention as possible since others at FR are quite skilled at researching.

Below is the interesting and lengthy analysis by Barry Rubin cited by Atlas Shrugs (in case you missed the link at the website).

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You
By Barry Rubin

How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:

Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.

[Analysis follows at link]

The Rubin Report

[TigersEye]

It’s a great thread. I bookmarked in my WOT folder. Not a lot in there it’s just for good references. One link like this has hours of study in it.

[thouworm]

My map disppeared from post #21. I will try again. Can someone capture?

[thouworm]

Those were not my comments, but those of Atlas Shrugs. I seem to remember, however, that there were reports that his apartment appeared sparse even when he lived there. Apparently, he slept on an air mattress and lived frugally. The bigger question is: What did he do with his nearly $100K salary?

As for the paper shredder....He was a scrimper. I find the shredder most unusual. On the other hand, your suggestion has merit.

[thouworm]

Thank you. I got the idea from Candor7 and the video he has been posting on FR (see under Gilani in body of the thread).

There are many more connections to be made. More and more, I have become interested in jihadist university connections, and no doubt we will find more of those with Hasan.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

Are We at War or Not?
Real Clear Politics dot com | Nov 17, 2009 | Pat
Posted on 11/17/2009 12:47:15 AM PST by XHogPilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2388045/posts

[pollywog]

bookmark to read later......

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Bookmarked. Thanks for the ping.

[penelopesire]

Great work! Going in the ‘Freeper Keeper’ file. Thanks for the ping.

[maggief]

GREAT WORK!

bookmark

btt

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I think this is an interesting case not because of what
it tells us about islam and jihad but what it tells us about
our own gubbermint.

I think communist/totalitarian states have gotten to a pretty
advanced stage when they can -

Look at a set of events that anyone with the sense of a five year old and come to the obvious interpretation, but then give the exact opposite interpretation and have it
become received wisdom.

I guess in short our own Baghdad Bob type of situation.

The fact that the State says it is disturbing enough. The fact that it is instantly parroted and accepted is, if anything, far more disturbing.

This requires a fairly advanced state of mass hypnosis - for people to discard the evidence of their own senses
and logic and to substitute the (obviously wrong) interpretation of the state.

I grieve for my country.

[takenoprisoner]

What's the problem? Everyone knows Islam is a "relgion of peace." It's just a small minority that are making a nuisance of themselves. Just ask George Bush. He'll tell ya how it is. He sang this song from the getgo! And now, Obama has added his own chorus line to the beat.

OMG, if George Bush said Islam is a ROP, it must be true.

Surely, with this hit piece on the ROP, you are not suggesting Islam is not a ROP?

[Candor7]

Thank you for your patriotic work. This is informaton that the Obama Junta does NOT want the public to know.

I bet that Hasan had connections with one of these country locations.

IMHO. becuause Obama will not protect America from these jihadists training in our midst, that we need a watch group for each camp location across the coutry. We here on FR can help organize that. We need Watch groups to report information, and if necessary,secondary groups set up as modern day minute men to take them on with weapons if the necessity ever presented itself.

IN short, our government will not protect us, we must do so for ourselves. Thats a stone cold fact, and a hard one to accept.

I wonder if we can get the FBI list of ALL of these known training camps across the USA, though the freedom of information act, or maybe we need Freepers across the country to make up a list.

It could be a majot FR campaign, to get the information out. Jim Rob would need to be on board with it.

We need to get rolling.