ROCHESTER, NH—At
a Trump town hall meeting, an audience member
expressed anti-Muslim sentiments and the real estate mogul laughed it off
asking, “We need this question? This
first one?”
He told the audience
he preferred to make opening remarks and open the event to their toughest
questions. “Make them vicious,
violent, terrible questions,” Trump said.
After the event, reporters asked Trump why he didn't challenge the
questioner's assertions. Trump did not answer, but his campaign manager, Corey
Lewandowski told
CNN that the candidate did not hear the question. "All he heard was a
question about training camps, which he said we have to look into,"
Lewandowski said. "The media want to make this an issue about Obama, but
it's about him waging a war on Christianity."
He
also fielded a question from a conspiracy theorist who told him that there is
a “new holocaust” in New Hampshire and that people are being loaded into
boxcars and beheaded by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
“I just wanted you to
know that,” the woman said.
Trump moved on without
addressing the woman’s claim.
Seems
they might be out of tinfoil in the Granite State. That’s what the intellectually incurious
might think.
Muslims
of America operates 22 “villages” around the United States with a 70-acre
compound called Islamberg
as its main headquarters in New York.
MOA also operates an enclave identified as Mahmoudberg in Texas and Baladullah
near Badger, CA. Its members are devoted
followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani the Islamist whom Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was on his way to
interview when he was abducted in 2002 and eventually beheaded by 9/11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The FBI
documents obtained by Clarion
Project clearly identify MOA as a terrorist organization. The Department of
Homeland Security privately agreed in 2005, listing Jamaat ul-Fuqra (and specifically MOA) as a
possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S.
So why is MOA/JUF
allowed to operate in the country?
The answer is that
the State Department has not designated MOA/Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization. The group is thus permitted to organize in the U.S.
until that happens. Yet, the State Department has also recognized the
group’s terroristic agenda.
In 1998, the State
Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism report described Jamaat ul-Fuqra as an “Islamic sect that
seeks to purify Islam through violence.” It said that Fuqra members engaged in
assassinations and bombings in the U.S. in the 1980s and still live in
“isolated rural compounds” in the country.
A State Department
spokesperson was asked in January 2002 about why MOA stopped appearing in the
Department’s annual terrorism reports. The answer was as follows:
“Jamaat ul-Fuqra has
never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It was included in
several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e.,
groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally
designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group's
inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report
covering that calendar year.”
It has not appeared
since. Yet, here we have FBI documents from as late as 2007 discussing the
terrorist threat posed by MOA.
It’s long past due
that the State Department be forced to address this obvious threat. The State
Department must designate Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
before it’s too late.
FBI Documents:
·
MOA presence not limited to the Mahmoudberg commune
·
FBI document shows that the extremist group
has been in Texas since the 1980s
·
FBI document mentions that about seven MOA
members purchased property in area
·
Two FBI documents from 1992 mention that MOA members in the
state were using false aliases, social security numbers and birth certificates.
·
FBI documents obtained by Clarion Project
clearly identify MOA as a terrorist organization.
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