Monday, October 10, 2005
The Islamists of Charlotte County, Virginia
Of the many Virginia bloggers, not many stalk "southside Virginia," the northern border of which is the James River. Two of those happy few publish the Gates of Vienna, which chronicles the war with expansionist Islam from a very long term perspective.
Surprisingly, one can find Islamists even in vast rural and very southern forests between Lynchburg and Richmond. The Baron travelled a few miles to Red House, Charlotte County, Virginia, and wrote up what he learned here. It is chilling:
Among the Baron's many discoveries, which are both fascinating and chilling, is that the "Red House" compound put up a guardhouse and a gate a couple of weeks before September 11, 2001, after not having such security for more than five years. It also runs a kiosk in the Lynchburg mall (selling jewelry and such), which does a hefty business in C.O.D. packages via UPS, allegedly out of proportion to the probably cash flow of the kiosk.
Read the whole thing.
Surprisingly, one can find Islamists even in vast rural and very southern forests between Lynchburg and Richmond. The Baron travelled a few miles to Red House, Charlotte County, Virginia, and wrote up what he learned here. It is chilling:
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.
But first: some background on Jamaat ul-Fuqra. The group was founded in New York by Sheikh Gilani in New York in 1980. Its current headquarters is in Hancock, New York, and it has various compounds, or Jamaats, scattered throughout the United States and Canada, notably in Colorado, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. Most of the adherents are reported to be American-born Black Muslims who follow a strict Islamist ideology.
Sheikh Gilani, you may remember, is the cleric with whom Daniel Pearl had arranged an interview back in January of 2002. Unfortunately, Mr. Pearl was betrayed by his sources, and then abducted and beheaded. Sheikh Gilani was arrested later that month and languishes in Pakistani custody.
So this is the kind of people we are dealing with here. They launder money, smuggle firearms, plan and carry out assassinations and bombings, and conduct intense Islamist indoctrination, including inside American prisons.
Among the Baron's many discoveries, which are both fascinating and chilling, is that the "Red House" compound put up a guardhouse and a gate a couple of weeks before September 11, 2001, after not having such security for more than five years. It also runs a kiosk in the Lynchburg mall (selling jewelry and such), which does a hefty business in C.O.D. packages via UPS, allegedly out of proportion to the probably cash flow of the kiosk.
Read the whole thing.
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CP, at
Wed Oct 12, 04:15:00 PM:
I've posted some additional information on the Red House compound at my blog - here.
