One place to look is Red House, Virginia.
There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane near the tiny crossroads hamlet of Red House, is believed to serve as an al Fuqra base.
Red House, VA. Is about a 4 mile drive to Washington. DC.Al Fuqra which means "the impoverished" in Arabic was founded in 1980 when Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani traveled from Pakistan to an African-American mosque in Brooklyn. On this and subsequent trips, the charismatic sheikh helped create al Fuqra, which is said to have between 1,000 and 3,000 members nationwide. It is not aligned with a more prominent and homegrown black Muslim group, the Nation of Islam, and in fact it has serious theological differences with Louis Farrakhan's flock. And it may pose a much greater threat to civil society.
About two dozen families live at the 44-acre compound near Red House, but al Fuqra is headquartered in Hancock, N.Y., and maintains extensive ties to Gilani in Lahore
A Junior al Qaeda . . .There's also a Maryland location I'd check out...
Masjid Jamaat al-Muslimeen, located at 4624 York Road, Baltimore, MD.
They're expressed support and raised money for the bloody government of the Sudan, as well as cop-killing former Black Panther Imam Jamil al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown).
Jamaat al-Muslimeen is very active in the Caribbean, having attempted a nearly successful coup in Trinidad (1990).
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JULY 2000 : (NY :"UNITY MEETING" BETWEEN THE ICNA & BALTIMORE'S JAMAAT AL MUSLIMEEN [JaM] ) Further evidence of the connection between ICNA and JI is found in a July 2000 Unity Meeting that took place in New York between ICNA and its Baltimore-based rival, Jamaat al-Muslimeen. [pdf] Speaking for the side of ICNA, in his native language of Urdu, was none other than the President (Amir) of JI, Qazi Hussain Ahmad (who is still the head of JI). During the meeting, he stressed the need for participation in Jihad; he stated that Islam must be translated into political dominance; and he said that the sword and the Quran go together
His sharp rhetoric was not unusual, given his public support for the Taliban and his numerous get-togethers with Osama bin Laden. While Ahmads communication with the head of Al-Qaeda is serious, his organizations dealings with Hamas are much more damning. And ICNAs involvement in this is apparent, as well.