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Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno?
KFSN TV 30 Fresno, CA ^ | 11-07-01 | Kevin Quinn

Posted on 11/08/2001 8:14:41 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic

.Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno? There's an airstrip and neighbors complain of gunfire. Kevin Quinn takes you inside Baladullah, California.

Sorry, no transcript as of now. Video only. Worth the effort to view.

The video provides a look at this compound in the foothills above Fresno, CA. Pre 9-11, a Fresn County Sheriffs deputy was killed by a member of this peaceful Islamic community. The suspect (in the beginning trial phase still) broke into a empty nearby foothill home, when deputies arrived this guy was lying in the hallway floor with a rifle, and killed one deputy. This video is the first investigative reporting we have had on this Islamic community. The trail leads to FUQRA, a known terrorist group operating all over the world, and have several communities such as this one all over the USA.

Here is an excerpt from an article of the Sacramento Bee...

California links of terrorists probed:
Federal and state investigators try to unearth 'sleeper' agents.
By Sam Stanton and Andy Furillo
Bee Staff Writers

(Published Sept. 30, 2001)

The compound Beyond seeking out ties to bin Laden-linked terrorist networks, officials are keeping tabs on another Islamic group near Fresno because of the recent killing of a sheriff's deputy in an area home, apparently stemming from a botched burglary.(this was no burglary according to all accounts)

There is no evidence that the Fresno group has been involved in any terrorist activities, officials say.

The group, according to a federal source, is part of Fuqra, an organization whose name means "poverty" in Arabic and which has had compounds in several U.S. areas.

Some Fuqra members in other areas have been implicated in past years in domestic terrorist attacks, and the State Department has labeled the group, known formally as Jamaat ul-Fuqra, as "an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence."

The group south of Fresno operates an 1,800-acre compound called the International Quranic Open University, which sits on the former site of the drug addiction recovery cult Synanon.

The compound, a series of mobile homes shaded by trees, also serves as a U-Haul rentals location. A resident there last week refused to talk to a reporter, referring inquiries to a Visalia attorney who did not respond to a message seeking information.

Authorities have been studying the compound since the Aug. 21 slaying of Fresno County Sheriff's Deputy Erik Telen. Officials charged 20-year-old Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah with murder in the killing, apparently stemming from a botched burglary at a rural home.

James Oppliger, Fresno County's chief deputy district attorney, said the suspect claimed he had been living at the compound seeking psychiatric treatment from the Quranic university.

Oppliger said he since has begun studying the group and its possible connections to other organizations.

(Zavia Books) is the bookstore for this Islamic compound. It is called Koranic Open University. Note the books being sold. One of them is prefaced by ( Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani [Gilani]) a known terrorist. The trail leads from Baladullah (actually Miramonte, CA) to Pakistan, where Sheik Gilani lives. He is the head of Fuqra.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: alfuqra; baladullah; fresno; fuqra; gilani; jamaatalfuqra; jihadinamerica; jilani; redcross; trainingcamps; university
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Baladullah is operating a charter school, several actually all over California, and have received over $1 million of taxpayer money to operate, and are due to get well over $5 million next year....just thought you would like to know......

What???? This is unbelievable.

21 posted on 11/08/2001 8:46:56 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
bump and bookmark

I am skeptical about Fuqra's Pakistani leader.
My understanding is that it's a supersecret US based organization, probably out of Chicago, affiliated with Farakhan.
They are very bloody people, they kill moderate Muslim leaders, usually by knifing them in broad daylight.

22 posted on 11/08/2001 8:49:19 AM PST by japaneseghost
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Has the INS been informed of this situation? How many illegals are located there?
Right after 9-11, there was a request by FBI for a copy of all foreign FSU student records. They checked all ?Arab? students enrolled in colleges across the nation but Fresno seemed to given extra scrutiny. Heard later that the reason for this was because of Fresno's large population of muslins.
Can anyone else confirm this?
23 posted on 11/08/2001 8:50:06 AM PST by JustAmy
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To: Travis McGee
Having reviewed this thread I really do see this village as an enemy enclave here in the USA. This place should be taken out now all inhabitants rrounded up (coconspirators in the murder of a police officer).

I guess it is gonna take about 1,000,000 dead Americnas to wake people up.

Stay well - Stay safe -Stay armed - Yorktown

24 posted on 11/08/2001 9:12:50 AM PST by harpseal
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To: harpseal
It'll take a city.
25 posted on 11/08/2001 9:14:50 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Good find... this could develop in its significance. Ashcroft, FBI, ATF and Homeland Security must
be all over this by now. (We can hope).
26 posted on 11/08/2001 9:15:24 AM PST by jdogbearhunter
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Good find... this could develop in its significance. Ashcroft, FBI, ATF and Homeland Security must
be all over this by now. (We can hope).
27 posted on 11/08/2001 9:15:26 AM PST by jdogbearhunter
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Bump
28 posted on 11/08/2001 9:17:09 AM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
I guess the faith based government initiatives are now dead.
29 posted on 11/08/2001 9:22:03 AM PST by Diverdogz
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To: bwteim
There is a reference to 'alleged' shooting in Fresno Bee

I saw this article using a search engine for Baladullah. This was on 9-12, an Islamic apologetics article. I emailed the reporter Erin Kennedy, and asked her why she has not done any investigation or printed a follow up article similar to the one on KFSN, she responded that she couldn't corroborate anything...she should try the FBI, the Fresno County Sherrif..Susan Fenger, criminal investigator.

30 posted on 11/08/2001 9:22:30 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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To: Stefan Stackhouse; Francohio; Squantos; harpseal; _Jim
I am sure that the "village" is used for spy and terrorism training purposes, but not by our side.

Jeez, they could have a giant anthrax lab in a barn, and we'd never know it.

Can you imagine the German Gestapo and SS operating a giant "village" there in 1942? Boarding, training, and hiding newly arrived stormtroopers, working on their English and "Amercian Operations" skills?

Does a nation this dumb deserve to prevail?

31 posted on 11/08/2001 9:23:36 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: jdogbearhunter
Better off turning BLM or the eco-whackos on them. They work faster. Surely there's an endangered species that could use the land. :)
32 posted on 11/08/2001 9:24:10 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: harpseal
Bump

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33 posted on 11/08/2001 9:25:42 AM PST by hd5574
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To: CaliforniaDreamer
And I am sure that our state government would never permit any of that money to be used for religious education.

According to KFSN news report, local legislators are scrambling to write new law concerning charter school. Assmbleyman Mike Briggs (r)Clovis, wants to limit a schools charter to one location, rather than several scattered all over several different jurisdictions.

34 posted on 11/08/2001 9:26:08 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Q: Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno?

A: Practice Range? (just kidding, guys.)

35 posted on 11/08/2001 9:28:03 AM PST by George Smiley
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To: Clovis_Skeptic; Mama_Bear; Saundra Duffy; Cool Guy; CounterCounterCulture; Syncro; jmp702
Ping.

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jmp702, btw, not a "giant" ping. ; ) Just FYI.

36 posted on 11/08/2001 9:28:05 AM PST by American Preservative
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno?

Political correctness.

37 posted on 11/08/2001 9:28:10 AM PST by Mark17
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To: narnia4
I'm not a "fan" of Ruby Ridge/Waco BUT: the US officials surrounded Weaver and shot his wife because he sold 1/4'' short shotgun ---- here a Sheriff is murdered and these people are still given free range!!!!

Not only are they being given "free range"...they are receiving MILLION$ OF $$$.....for their Charter School.

The FBI, the Fresno Co. Sheriff knows...but they are still there, and operating, with occasional armed guards at the gate...Somebody shake me, I must be asleep...

38 posted on 11/08/2001 9:32:42 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic
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To: rightofrush
FYI

Condition 3

39 posted on 11/08/2001 9:39:08 AM PST by hd5574
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
It takes a village to raise a sexually frustrated suicide bomber.
40 posted on 11/08/2001 9:40:14 AM PST by NC_Libertarian
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