HANCOCK, N.Y. — If you didn't know where to look, you'd probably never find Islamberg, a private Muslim community in the woods of the western Catskills, 150 miles northwest of New York City.
The town, sitting on a quiet dirt road past a gate marked with No Trespassing signs, is home to an estimated 100 residents. There are small houses and other buildings visible from the outside, but it is what can't be seen from beyond the gate that has some watchers worried.
Islamberg was founded in 1980 by Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, a Pakistani cleric who purchased a 70-acre plot and invited followers, mostly Muslim converts living in New York City, to settle there.
The town has its own mosque, grocery store and schoolhouse. It also reportedly has a firing range where residents take regular target practice. Gilani established similar rural enclaves across the country — at least six, including the Red House community in southern Virginia — though some believe there are dozens of them, all operating under the umbrella of the "Muslims of the Americas" group founded by Gilani.
Federal authorities say Gilani was also one of the founders of Jamaat al-Fuqra, a terrorist organization believed responsible for dozens of bombings and murders across the U.S. and abroad. The group was linked to the planning of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and 10 years earlier a member was arrested and later convicted for bombing a hotel in Portland, Ore.
Shoe bomber Richard Reid has been linked to the group, along with convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad.
I'm not trying to be anti-Islamic because finding strength, guidance and inspiration through a peaceful faith is one of the greatest gifts to mankind; however, if we eradicate this one city in New York, I'm over 99.2% sure the war is over. This has to be the per capita Islamic-Extremist capital of the world. If those aforementioned people can indeed be linked to this city, then what in the hell does the CIA do everyday? According to Mission Impossible, they spend their time designing cable and harness accessible white, laser protected rooms containing one single supercomputer holding every top-secret document in our military arsenal. This almost seems like a skit from SNL. We're in the middle of a war against Islamic terrorism, yet there's a city that only allows Muslims and is linked to at least three major acts of terrorism against this country. I know all about our forefathers coming to America to elude religious persecution, but there's freedom and then there's common sense. We're definitely not using the latter. I'm sick and tired of being afraid to hurt people's feelings. Most honest, peaceful, patriotic Americans would welcome a little "racial profiling" if the alternative was being shot by a sniper rifle while pumping gas or having your head sawed off with a dull knife by a group of cowards wearing black hoods, or another Uhaul and or plane blowing up our work places while killing thousands. Political correctness might just cost you your life.
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