Jihadists Making Themselves at Home in Philadelphia
The state of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia in particular), the home of the Liberty Bell, is attracting Islamists peddling a softer, slicker form of jihad. These Islamists are careful not to raise alarm lest they jeopardize their long-term goals. It’s not clear what is attracting the groups, but staying true to the Keystone State nickname, Pennsylvania is becoming a common congregating point for Islamists.
An article I recently wrote, “Muslim Enclaves U.S.A.,” went viral and brought enormous reaction. One of the stories contained in the piece was about a music producer, Kenny Gamble, who converted to Islam and is now going by the name of Luqman Abdul Haqq. He has been accused of trying to create a “black Muslim enclave” in Philadelphia. Joe Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate, investigated Gamble further and discovered that he owned the United Muslim Movement’s (UMM) first mosque in Philadelphia in 1994.
Interestingly, he found that the Jawala Scouts, a group that teaches young Muslim children combat techniques and firearms use while dressed in military fatigue, was registered in 2005 under the same address as the UMM. Kaufman found that the email contact for the Jawala Scouts appears to be that of Gamble. However, the Jawala Scouts is reported to be the creation of another organization called the Sankore Institute of Islamic-African Studies International (SIIASI), which consists largely of former felons who are seen on the SIIASI website showing off swords and guns. The group was founded in Sudan and had its offices raided in 2006 by the FBI. Its director is virulently anti-American and condemns “pacifist imams” who oppose waging jihad against democracy.
The connections laid out by Kaufman show that three groups are very closely tied and all their efforts should be seen as part of a single campaign. In other words, the effort by Gamble to make a “black Muslim enclave” in Philadelphia is done in conjunction with the anti-American, pro-jihad SIIASI and the Jawala Scout effort to give Muslim children paramilitary training. When those three components are put together, the picture of what they hope to ultimately bring to Philadelphia is not pretty.
But the conspiracy is even bigger than that. Gamble sits on the Shura council of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), another group consisting largely of black Muslims that is led by the notorious Siraj Wahhaj. Also in a leadership position was Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the leader of a black Muslim extremist group called Ummah, until he died after opening fire on the FBI. The government says he too preached violent jihad, trained his followers, and sought to create a Muslim state within the U.S. Imam Abdul Alim Musa used to be a high-level MANA official, but his name has been removed. Imam Musa is the pro-terrorist leader of As-Sabiqun, another black Muslim group with a published program to establish enclaves in the U.S. — a plan that Gamble and his cohorts seem to be following.
This network isn’t alone. An extremist group called Muslims of the Americas, which is a front for a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra, has been very successful in creating enclaves dozens of acres large around the country that are used for paramilitary training. From the beginning, it has looked at Pennsylvania as a target. According to an article in the Journal of Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security International written by Larry Martines, the director of the Nevada Department of Homeland Security, Fuqra members linked up with other terrorists at a camp near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to “help Muslims in Bosnia.” Videotapes submitted as court evidence against five Fuqra members who planned a bombing of a Hindu temple in Toronto in 1991 showed that the cell traveled to the camp in Pennsylvania to practice firearms and create explosives.
Since then, the state has been in the sights of Jamaat ul-Fuqra/Muslims of the Americas. In June 2004, Muslims of the Americas members from all around the U.S. and Canada assembled in Philadelphia for a conference held under the name “Islamic NAAT Group.” A law enforcement source provided me with copies of the pamphlets which proved without a doubt that this was really an MOA event. Strangely, with the exception of a 20-strong male security force, the conference was attended by women who sang songs inside. The source emphasized that the men had to have gone somewhere unknown.
Well, I hope the next wannabe copycat of David Koresh is paying attention. If he wants to stockpile guns, rant against the government, and molest kids, all he has to do is grow a beard and invoke the name of Mohammed. The the government that otherwise would have gotten tough and come after him with tanks will just look the other way and whistle in thinly-veiled fear.
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly hate?
Our First Amendment was never meant to allow a forum for anyone who advocated the overthrow of our government. It only goes so far, as any SCOTUS Justice will remind you, and is meant to apply to peaceful expression. We must have a way to deal with enemies who operate inside the country. This is why the Alien and Sedition Act was passed.
However, if there is no one with the fortitude to bring up charges against these enemies of the state, then what’s the point of having it? We know radical islam is at war with us and has been for over a generation. Now they have infiltrated our borders and are working within the country, seeking our destruction and the imposition of their sharia law in blatent violation of our Constitution.
Are our elected officials acting against these criminals? Do they intend to protect the public from the attacks these groups are planning? Will they accept responsibility for the destruction in the aftermath of another attack that could have been prevented had they lived up to their oath to protect and defend us? I hope we never find out.
The 1st Amendment wasn’t meant to protect advocates of the overthrow of our government, but SCOTUS overruled the Founders when they ‘found’ that it violated the 1st to make membership in CPUSA illegal. Using that precedent, nobody has to worry until they get to the stage of setting off the bomb that they will be bothered. Total Constitutional crap, of course, but the SCOTUS usurped the power to overturn Congressional Acts, and, while they were making stuff up, ruled that the other 2 co-equal branches had nothing to say about their rulings, whatsoever. This aspect was the reason Lord Acton said the Constitution, as opposed to the wonder of human history, was “all sail and no rudder.” Read “The Anti-Federalist Papers” — they saw the fatal flaws (extra-specially judicial review) at the time, although I’m damned if I ever heard a word about this in my history classes.
Well said. There’s been a great deal of usurping of authority in the past, oh say, 30 years that needs correcting.
More like the past two centuries.
not surprising, Philly is a home for rad-libs; jihadists fit in well with the home grown nutcases!
Great writing and truly terrific details. Thank you so much.
If writers for PJM and other on-line blogs can uncover this information then certainly the FBI and DHS has the same information,right? So why are they NOT breaking up these groups? Why are they allowing these groups to not only exist but recruit Americans(nominally Americans-in name only)?
If those who are charged with our safety cannot act for our safety because of PC rules or politics then there is something very wrong. We need to sweep out the whole government. These groups are at the least subversive and at the worst anti-American and terrorist.
Writing commentary for blogs is fine for exposing these groups but WE need to do something about them.
As much as J. Edgar Hoover was a little extreme in his job, I really doubt during his tenure any of these groups would be growing at the rate they are today. In fact, I can’t remember ANY time in American history when so many extremely subversive groups are allowed to thrive and work at destroying the Constitutional Rights, the whole fabric of our society. The joke of Homeland Security should be closing these Islamic outfits down. My God. Look what happened at Ruby Ridge, Waco, even the Chicago 7 back in the 60′s had more investigation than these Islamic jokers. I bet the FBI knew more about the SDS Underground back in the day than they know about most of these vile, ruinious, barbaric social groups that really aren’t doing anything positive in the name of religion. It’s called social re-organization and plotting a junta or actual war against the people of the United States. Yet we are called ‘racist’ and ‘islamophobic’. Life is more twisted these days than one of those itty bitty screws in your computer.
Why aren’t freedom-loving blacks in America condeming their brethren in what seems to be an increasing conversion to Islam in their midst? Where is the outcry from black political and church leaders? Where is Obama’s condemnation? Didn’t he take an oath to protect and defend America from foreign AND domestic enemies? Islam is a ever-spreading cancer…..
There are those that do. Check out this link to PJTV. http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=88&load=4163. Don’t psy attention to Al but to Sonja and Charles Payne. While it’s not directly related to islam, it demonstrates there are people who do care. Also check out a Lieutenant Colonel West in Florida. I’d follow him.
“If those who are charged with our safety cannot act for our safety because of PC rules or politics then there is something very wrong. We need to sweep out the whole government. These groups are at the least subversive and at the worst anti-American and terrorist.”
Politics trump criminal law. Yes there is something VERY WRONG.
No surprise that the governor of Pennsylvania and former mayor of Philadelphia, fast eddie Rendell, recently praised Philadelphia for its Moslem friendly culture. Of course the city of Philadelphia is run by corrupt amoral politicians who have no religious values at all; they just see all that Saudi money just waiting to be looted.
OK, now we have Sharia-madrassesjihdists in NYC, Detroit, Phila. and other areas. Where are all those supposed moderate Muslims speaking out against these thugs? In the media, on TV,in blogs??? I do not see them.How can any American citizen trust these groups unless they blast all jihadist Muslims, their states, their groups including Hamas, Hez,.the Pals, Al Queda ,Taliban et al??? I do not and will not until I see these MODERATES continue to speak out daily against these Islamofascists. I have been to Europe and seen the creeping jihadists taking over cities in Britain, France and even in some areas of E.Europe. American better be very wary of any of these people.
America has a problem much bigger than the terrorists and Muslim organizations which are fronts for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, etc, and that is that our government has no interest whatsoever in workinging with Muslim moderates. Our government much prefers working with terrorist Hamas front, CAIR, and other similar organizations.
Our safety and freedom is also under severe threat because our government ALLOWS Muslim terrorist training camps in America. Google: Muslim terrorist training camps in America. There are many.
Our borders are left unguarded. It has been established that many Muslim terrorists have easily crossed our border and are now in America. Our troops are needed at home to protect America!
The destruction of America’s security can only be described as deliberate. Experts have stated it is not a matter of will America be attacked with weapons of mass destruction, it is only a matter of when. Experts believe we will be attacked with WMD in the next few years.
There is no one protecting America.
I did not vote for the empty suit in the White House. Those who did have only themselves to blame for not being more discerning-Palin could never have been as bad as BO. After the first speech I heard, I knew he was a phony. Since his father was a Muslim, he is a cultural Muslim which fact accounts for his serial lies. His knowledge of history is an intellectual black hole. He is the dumbest man I have ever seen as President. The only way change will come will be to vote him out or, heaven forbid, another Muslim attack on our soil; and again failing to connect the dots repeats the lie that Islam is a religion of peace. Maybe enough Americans will wake up then to the fact that Islam is evil and satanic to the core. The Koran is codified evil. Islam has only two products, oil and bodies.
Obama has stripped Uncle Sam’s pants down, had him turn around, and expose his bare butt to the world in a preemptive cringe!
The longer this Muslim infiltration is allowed to continue, ignored and unchallenged, the greater the danger. These enclaves and Jihad related activities are not going away and are thriving on the vine of outreach, political correctness and multiculturalism, a triad of impending disaster. At some point America will have to confront this threat or be consumed by it and the inevitable result of interfaith dialogue, diplomacy and a mountain of mia culpas will be the transformation of America to Islamerica.
Like a festering wound this is in desperate need of exposure and cleansing. Articles such as this by Mr. Mauro, abound, if one cares to look but most are speaking to a choir that has no teeth. All are concerned and commiserate with each other but it remains disturbingly obvious that years of inculcation of carefully crafted Muslim propaganda have inured much of the western world with the sacrosanct notion that “Islam is a religion of peace,” no further discussion necessary; it’s a given. The world routinely ignores, endures, and yawns at, tales of Muslim violence, torture, murder, misogyny, pedophilia, death threats and intimidation but becomes enraged at anti-Muslim cartoons, films, books, Qur’an burnings, etc. and uber solicitous to Muslim allegations of “racial” discrimination, religious defamation and violations of their civil rights.
Few, it appears, are willing to consider or admit that this dogma needs to be purged from the western mindset before it is too late.
We all need to spread the word as far up the chain as possible, continually, at every opportunity, to everyone in a position of authority we can think of; certainly our Mayors, Governors, Congresspersons, Senators and every government and law enforcement official within our reach. One or a few will not suffice; all need to be fully informed, engaged, committed and on the offensive.
The outright lies and obfuscations, Taqiyya, a sanctioned religious practice in Islam, must be confronted, exposed and publicly refuted. Aggression must be met with massive and overwhelming retaliation. Immigration from predominantly Islamic nations must be unapologetically halted. Muslim infiltration and participation in academia, media and government must be prevented and rooted out where it now exists. Perverted versions of American and Islamic history must be identified, corrected and or eliminated. The threat of full exposure, arrest, conviction, expulsion and or death is the only persuasive language the Jihadist understands and perhaps the only strategy that will result in a long overdue religious reformation that sheds the medieval interpretation of the Qur’an and its Sharia system of justice and renders Islam a religion that fully accepts the modern separation of church and state and respect for people of all faiths and their right to coexist.
There are Muslims already involved in this modernization and transformation process and they need to be identified and afforded the west’s full support and protection.
None of this will happen as long as America is governed and controlled by intellectual elites with a convoluted, pacifist, politically correct, multiculturalist concept of a world on which they’ve eagerly sought to impose their idealistic problem “solutions” so carefully and brilliantly crafted in the halls of academia unsullied by outside, real world influences.
This intellectual crusade has been a long time in the works and the Obama administration is the closest they’ve come to realizing their dreams. They continue to play the blame game in total denial of failure, a word not in their lexicon except when applied to the opposition. After struggling for over 100 years all they need is just a little more time; and thus it will ever be. We are still experiencing the complete failure of the Bush years and now the emergence of the “Tea Baggers,” a “radical, violent, racist, fringe” group “bitterly clinging to their guns and religion” that “hate” Obama because he’s not white. It could not possibly be for any other reason. According to the current political leadership they just need to pass bills unread and then let us all experience the marvels that result. No need to read; they’ve all been authored by the most brilliant minds ever to grace the planet. What could possibly be wrong?
Whether the present crop of Republican and Conservative Democrat candidates, when elected, can turn things around and face the problem of Islamization is highly questionable but not at all possible unless they are dragged to the fount of truth. Those aware of this threat need to be the pied pipers, raise public awareness and hope, in the right hands, it has the desired effect.
Religious freedom and secular, constitutional governance, yes; Islamization and Sharia, NO!
The New TSOP–Tax $ Giving Philly Its Own Gaza Strip
Greetings All,
The article by Ryan Mauro reminds me of one very important sign of equilibrium denoting that in life, its’ all fair and square ( normally )
US and Allies invaded Muslim heartlands ,
Muslim militants idealogy invaded US heartland and Europe,
US and Allies established army bases,
Muslim militants established enclaves,
US and Allies recruited local Afghans and Iraqis to do the work,
Muslim militants recruited American (mostly disenchanted blacks ) to do the work.
So all’s square and fair, Ryan.Why the complaint?
Anyone remember Kruschev? He warned us that communism wouldn’t conquer us through war – they would feed it to us slowly over time until one day we wake up and we are in a communist nation. Same rationale, they feed us Islam in dribs and drabs until one day, we are ruled by sharia law. Wake up and smell the taquiya! God help us, and God help our elected officials to wake up.
U.S. leaders allow Muslim terrorist training camps in America. Most governments protect their country and people. America does not.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUYIHRRaPmA&feature=player_embedded
Muslim Terrorist Training Camps in America – Feb 16, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8FexoNO1M
Homegrown Jihad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_82YGXJe0&feature=player_embedded
Turkey’s Prime Minister, Erdogan, publicly read an Islamic poem: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and Muslims our soldiers…”
In Islam, all countries that are not Muslim, are regarded as the ‘House of War’ to be conquered for Islam. From 56 Muslim countries already conquered by Islam, many millions of Islam’s foot soldiers colonize Western nations.
Council on American-Islamic Relations: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” – Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder).
Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine’s annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who “kill themselves for Islam,”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52184
BETRAYED by our Leaders
Jihad advances greatly because of pro-Islam Western leaders. U.S. Airport Security is Deliberately and Shockingly Destroyed for Islam:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
Controversial Muslim group
gets VIP airport security tour
Feds show CAIR latest screening steps,
sensitive counterterrorism procedures
August 18, 2006
The Department of Homeland Security
took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.
On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.
CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573
Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a black convert to Islam and Oakland-based head of an a radical mosque, is a regular speaker at UC Irvine on behalf of the Muslim Student Union. He calls for the violent destruction of Israel and has made numerous anti-Semitic statements at UCI and other Calif universities. He is originally from Philadelphia.
Last year, he spoke at UCI about his conversion to Islam. He made the statement that Philadelphia is the center of the Islamic movement in America (I am paraphrasing because I don’t recall the exact words.)
He also closed by saying that
“Islam is coming. Islam is coming.”
I take him seriously. Crackpot? Perhaps, but consider this:
He was student body president at SF State University.
Gary Fouse
adj teacher
UC-Irvine Ext
fousesquawk
I wonder , how many of the Imams ( so called ) are on the public dole.
As many in the U.K. are ? It is passing strange for these pestilent fellows to come here or to be born here in this God blessed land ( as in the God of our fathers , the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah ) and to paraphrase Merle Haggard , to ” talk about some other way of living “. And to take on so ,after partaking in this lands blessings , made possible by that same God .
All such should be excluded from consideration for citizenship and deported to the Muslim paradise on earth of their choice , with no right of return .
Shariah – The Threat to America
full report and video of the press conference
http://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18523.xml
http://bigpeace.com/author/teamb/
part 3. ‘Civilization Jihad’ – the Muslim Brotherhood’s Potent Weapon
Dawa, the call to Islam that by Islamic law must precede jihad, is all-too-often dismissed, as are its manifestations under the rubric of non-violent jihad, simply because this kind of assault does not kill. Instead, it intends “merely” to subjugate.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, told a Toledo, Ohio, Muslim Arab Youth Association convention in 1995, “We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through the sword, but through dawa.”
part 9. The Genesis of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood’s bylaws make clear the organization’s objectives and how it intends to achieve them:
“The Muslim Brotherhood is an International Muslim body which seeks to establish Allah’s law in the land by achieving the spiritual goals of Islam and the true religion which are namely the following: . . . (F) the need to work on establishing the Islamic State; [and] (G) The sincere support for a global cooperation in accordance with the provisions of the Islamic Sharia.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood in achieving these objectives depends on the following means: . . . (D) Make every effort for the establishment of educational, social, economic, and scientific institutions and the establishment of mosques, schools, clinics, shelters, clubs, as well as the formation of committees to regulate zakat affairs and alms; (E) The Islamic nation must be fully prepared to fight the tyrants and the enemies of Allah as a prelude to establishing the Islamic state.”
Annual Muslim Day Parade 2010
The un-announced theme of the parade is all over the floats and in the speeches. Da’wah.
http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/annual-muslim-day-parade-2010-video-and-pics/
THE MUSLIM MOSQUE: A STATE WITHIN A STATE
http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/the-mosque-a-state-within-a-state/
Here is an interesting article from MuslimsVoiceofAmerica.com/Blog
5 Reasons to build / not to build the Mosque near ground zero
http://www.muslimsvoiceofamerica.com/blog/2010/08/5-reasons-to-build-not-to-build-the-mosque-near-ground-zero/
I am just amazed how intolerant we as Americans are becoming. Liberty irrespective of class, creed, religion and color is the quintessential of America.
Here is an interesting article from MuslimsVoiceofAmerica.com/Blog
5 Reasons to build / not to build the Mosque near ground zero
http://www.muslimsvoiceofamerica.com/blog/2010/08/5-reasons-to-build-not-to-build-the-mosque-near-ground-zero/