Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S.
The entrance to Islamberg in New York state
"GOP presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz's call for patrolling of Muslim communities with signs of extremism is being bashed as pandering to anti-Muslim voters, with critics saying there aren't even Islamist communities in the U.S. to begin with.
They are wrong.
They exist — and newly-published documents show that they've boasted of enforcing Islamic sharia law, even going so far as to whip children.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S.
Its "Islamberg" headquarters in New York is the most well-known.
The Clarion Project identified one village in Texas in 2014 and the group mentioned others, including one in Alaska during a frivolous lawsuit it filed against a prominent critic.
...That sounds innocent enough until you look at the picture above.
The caption reads, "American Muslims have established their own villages where Islamic Law has been enforced.
Here a wrongdoer is voluntarily accepting punishment."
The unclear picture shows a man sitting on a chair, with his back facing a group of Muslims in prayer as a man stands over him.
The image is identical to what a former Fuqra member described to the Clarion Project as the procedure for brutal whippings..."
Read on and be afraid.
Very afraid!
"GOP presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz's call for patrolling of Muslim communities with signs of extremism is being bashed as pandering to anti-Muslim voters, with critics saying there aren't even Islamist communities in the U.S. to begin with.
They are wrong.
They exist — and newly-published documents show that they've boasted of enforcing Islamic sharia law, even going so far as to whip children.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S.
Its "Islamberg" headquarters in New York is the most well-known.
The Clarion Project identified one village in Texas in 2014 and the group mentioned others, including one in Alaska during a frivolous lawsuit it filed against a prominent critic.
...That sounds innocent enough until you look at the picture above.
The caption reads, "American Muslims have established their own villages where Islamic Law has been enforced.
Here a wrongdoer is voluntarily accepting punishment."
The unclear picture shows a man sitting on a chair, with his back facing a group of Muslims in prayer as a man stands over him.
The image is identical to what a former Fuqra member described to the Clarion Project as the procedure for brutal whippings..."
Read on and be afraid.
Very afraid!
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