It’s a muslim compound near Deposit NY. We drove up past there once. It’s on a dirt road off a back main road. Saw guys in muslim garb at a checkpoint, carrying rifles. Nobody gets in there without an escort - electricians, etc are escorted and kept an eye on while they work. We slowed down as we drove past. We looked at them, they looked at us. It was eerie. I’m not from around there, but had relatives there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamberg,_New_York
Islamberg is a rural village in Hancock, Delaware County, New York.[1] It was founded by Imam Al Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani Hashimi, a Pakistani Sufi cleric more generally known as Mubarak Ali Gilani, and is a branch of Muslims of the Americas, a U.S. organization formed in 1980. Gilani, who refers to himself as “the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr”, has been accused of being linked to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or “community of the impoverished”. A documentary video on YouTube purports to show a network of Islamberg-like camps in the United States, specifically the compound in New York State and Sheikh Gilani forming the “Soldiers of Allah”.[2]
The village was founded in the late 1980s, when, reportedly inspired by Gilani, a group of primarily African American Muslims left New York City to escape crime, poverty and racism. They built a community of some 40 family houses, with its own grocery store and bookstore. Some of the founders and later inhabitants are former federal prisoners who converted through the prison system’s chaplaincy. Islamberg is the first of a number of villages set up under the direction and tutelage of Gilani. Similar communities have been founded in almost two dozen other areas. According to the group’s website, Islamberg has been seeking donations to complete its mosque.[citation needed]