Islamberg (Wiki):
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Islamberg is a rural hamlet in
Hancock,
Delaware County,
New York,
[1] founded by
Mubarak Ali Gilani, a Pakistani
Sufi cleric.
The hamlet was founded in the late 1980s, when, reportedly inspired by Gilani, a group of primarily
African American Muslims left
New York City, reportedly to escape crime, poverty and racism. They built a community of some 40 family houses, with its own grocery store and bookstore and place of worship. Islamberg is the first of a number of communities set up under the direction and tutelage of Gilani.[
citation needed] According to locals, the land previously belonged to a woman from
Deposit, New York, who opened up her home in the late 1970s or early 1980s to disadvantaged young people.
[2] <<
Didja catch the word
Sufi" Or do "they all look alike" to you?
When was the last time you heard of a Sufi terrorist? Oh wait, I remember -- never. Remember the bullshit term "Ground Zero Mosque" in New York? A Sufi congregation. Targets of Wahabbists like the ones that perpetrated 9/11. And rhetorical targets of internet wags with image generators who can't tell the difference between a Sufi and a Wahabbi.
Then there's
this:
>> "I think there is a lot of misinformation that is out there, certainly on the Internet," said Capt. James Barnes from the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Barnes told CBS News that he's had a personal relationship with the community of Islamberg for 12 years.
"I go back to the numerous time that the state police has been invited to their lands, and again, I don't know any other place where, if something nefarious is occurring that they would willingly invite law enforcement personnel to come in and have lunch with them and interact with them on a frequent basis," said Barnes. "I would say that the amount of crime that is associated there at the land is less than it is anywhere else."
"If we were planning a terrorist attack on the United States of America don't you think law enforcement would know? Don't you think the FBI would know?" said Adams.
In a case that underscores how dangerous this atmosphere of suspicion can be, a one-time Congressional candidate from Tennessee, Robert Doggart, faces charges in connection with an alleged plot to attack Islamberg.
-- which segues to:
>> Have you heard about the Christian terrorist Robert Doggart, who was plotting a violent attack against a Muslim-American community in New York state? Probably not, because as opposed to when U.S. law enforcement officials arrest a Muslim for planning a violent assault, they didn’t send out a press release or hold a press conference publicizing Doggart’s arrest.
So let me tell you about Doggart and his deadly plan to use guns and even a machete to attack American Muslims in upstate New York. Doggart, a 63-year-old Tennessee resident, is an ordained Christian minister in the Christian National Church. In 2014, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress as an independent, espousing far right-wing views.
But don’t dismiss Doggart as some crazed wingnut howling at the moon. He served in the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps, worked for 40 years in the electrical generation business, has a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from La Salle University, and claimed he had nine “committed” men working with him to carry out this attack. <<
-- America Snores when Christian Terrorist Threatens to Massacre Muslims
This is where the path pointed by bigot bullshit artists leads. Paranoia, suspicion, fear and loathing. And the next step is violence.
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.” --- Rod Serling. 1960.
