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Washington, DC—Christian Action Network will show Homegrown Jihad at the Landmark
Theater in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2009, at 7:30 pm. There is no charge to
attend the viewing. Copies can also be obtained at www.christianaction.org.
The American public was never supposed to know. The 2006 Justice Department
document that exposes 35 terrorist training compounds in the U.S. was marked
“Dissemination Restricted to Law Enforcement.” All the copies of Sheik Muburak
Gilani’s terrorist training video, “Soldiers of Allah,” had been confiscated and
sealed—all of them, that is, except one—that Christian Action Network now reveals
in the documentary Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.
The Soldiers of Allah training video teaches American students how to operate AK-
47 rifles, rocket launchers, and machine guns; how to kidnap Americans and then
kill them; how to conduct sabotage and subversive operations; and how to use
mortars and explosives.
The allegations are serious, which is why Christian Action Network took more than
two years to research Muslims of America—going inside the compounds with their
video cameras and questions to confront violence and confirm the truth. Their
mission? To make Americans aware of the threats and have Jamaat ul-Fuqra placed on
the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organization Watch List, thereby shutting
down the camps in the U.S. run by ul-Fuqra's front group, Muslims of America.
The State Department issued a statement on January 31, 2002, regarding why the
group was no longer recognized as a terrorist organization: “Jamaat ul-Fuqra has
never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It was included in
several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e.,
groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally
designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group’s inactivity
during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report covering that
calendar year.”
The effect of being removed from terrorist reports? In January 2002 Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later beheaded while attempting to
attend an interview with Jamaat ul-Fuqra leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani.
Was this an isolated incident? Hardly. In March 2003, Fuqra and al Qaeda member
Iyman Faris pled guilty in federal court to a plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge,
and the list goes on.
According to a 2006 Department of Justice report, “Today, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has more
than 35 suspected communes and more than 3,000 members spread across the United
States, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence.”
What we are witnessing here is kind of a brand-new form of terrorism. These home-
grown terrorists can prove to be as dangerous as any known group, if not more so.
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