Jihad Summer Camp?

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LAKE LUZERNE -- One of North America's largest Muslim organizations wants to build a summer camp in the Adirondacks on 114 acres it recently acquired.

The Islamic Circle of North America, a Muslim advocacy group based in New York City, hopes to raise money to develop a camp for children and families of all religions on land donated to it last year, Muhammad Rahman, ICNA's secretary general, said in an interview Thursday.

"The organization seeks to obtain the pleasure of Allah through working for the establishment of Islam in all spheres of life," its website says. "ICNA has many projects, programs and activities which are designed to help in the process of molding the individual and reforming society at large."

U.S. law enforcement agencies have investigated, but never prosecuted, ICNA for terrorist connections.

"Muslims are living side by side with Americans," Rahman said. "I love America. This is my country."

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Read between the lines folks. "Muslims are living side by side with Americans"


Here's some background on the ICNA.

* In the book, American Jihad, author Steven Emerson claims that the ICNA has praised terror attacks in the past, is allied with militant fundamentalist movements, and supports the imposition of sharia law.
* The same book mentions a statement by Senator Mitch McConnell in 1996 that the group is allied with the Islamic Association for Palestine in North America, which has ties to the terrorist organization, Hamas.
* The ICNA has demonstrated deep ties to the fundamentalist Pakistani political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, whose main objective is the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law.
* Ran a series of Muslim subway ads in 2008, promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials had linked to a plot to blow up city landmarks.
* Have expressed great reverence for such outstanding individuals as the Ayatollah Khomeini and Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, a man famous for calling the holocaust a ‘myth’, and stating that ‘Israel must be wiped off the map.’


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