Small American Muslim Village Disappears

The Fresno Bee ^ | 6/14/02 | Bethany Clough

[goodieD]

BADGER -- A handwritten sign on an isolated, winding section of Highway 245 advertised a yard sale Thursday. "Everything must go," it read.

Apparently, that included the people who lived there.

One woman and a collection of clothes, chairs and computer parts were all that remained of Baladullah, a Muslim village near the mountain community of Badger.

[goodieD]

Our local foothills have often been home to assorted religious groups, legitimate and otherwise. This makes me a bit nervous though. Like most of us on FR, I don't buy into the whole "Islam is a peaceful religion" nonsense. So I don't feel too good about having these people just roaming around the area.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Sequoia National Park is near there, no?

[goodieD]

not that far away.. we also have Kings Canyon nearby.

[Cachelot]

Regrouping when hit by too much attention. Coming soon to somewhere near you :)).

[Capt. Tom]

Now, just six months later, that spirit is nearly gone, and firm answers as to where the people have gone are hard to find.

Maybe they are on individual missions. - Tom

[Cicero]

It's interesting that they were in a lot of legal trouble well before 9/11, including one man arrested for smuggling firearms in March and another who shot a deputy sherriff in August. I would reserve judgment on the kidnapping business, because there are usually two sides to such family disputes. Still, no one can say that the authorities were overreacting after 9/11. How many small, rural communities are involved in two serious crimes such as gun-smuggling and murder of a law officer in the course of a few months?

[twntaipan]

How close is this place to a major city or to a nuclear facility?

It may be they don't want to be around when their brethren launch the next attack.

[Freebird Forever]

How close is this place to a major city or to a nuclear facility?

It may be they don't want to be around when their brethren launch the next attack.

The same thought occurred to me.

[aristeides]

I wonder if they depended on funding from Muslim "charities" which has now been cut off.

[hellinahandcart]

Small American Muslim Village Disappears

Now that's a neat trick; will the technology work on larger villages too?

[abner]

Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno?

This one...

[Delbert]

COOL!

[Hellmouth]

This makes Baladullah America's newest ghost town, and its first Islamic one. Ghost towns are cool bump....

[Minnesoootan]

Sounds like a good place to send in a scour team for a once over now that it is vacant....couple sniffin dogs,you know,see what turns up.

A Trans-Camero,old tires,old refrigerator,trailer houses.....sounds like camoflage to me! ;-)

[goodieD]

how close to a major city.. prolly 45 minutes from a half million sized city. No nukes nearby though.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Were these homegrown Islamaniacs or imported?

[gracie1]

I have an idea that their main source of funding was the charter school that was yanked out from under them in January. There was a lot of screaming and yelling in the media that the investigation was racially motivated and anti-islamic. But the truth is there has been a number of charter schools that the Board of Education has been putting the screws to over debt, attendance logs, employee background checks and all the other standards they must maintain.

If you get government money, the government will be on your case to follow their rules.

[gracie1]

No nukes, but the California Air National Guard with all manner of firepower is here.

[nunya bidness]

Interesting. All gone.

[Travis McGee]

Very, they have dispersed and gone into hiding.

Check your local mosque.