Islamic paramilitary camps have been set up in the United States
and Canada to train African American Muslims in guerilla warfare. After
months of training on firing ranges and obstacle courses, the black
Muslims are sent to Pakistan where they receive advanced training in
explosives. Many never return.
Stories about these camps are not new. They have been reported by the main stream media, including Fox News.
The origin of these compounds for would-be jihadis dates back to
1979, when the Agency sent hundreds of radical Islamic clerics to the
United States in an effort to recruit African American Muslims for the
holy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The Tablighi Missionaries
By
and large, these missionaries hailed from Pakistan and belonged to
Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim movement with 150 members in 213 countries.[1] Upholding a strict interpretation of Islamic law (shariah),
the Tablighi were united in their resistance to Western culture; their
insistence that Muslims should avoid contact with all those who do not
share their beliefs; and their approval of jihad by sword (jihad bin saif).[2] Members of the movement gathered every year for three days in the small Pakistani town ofRaiwind.
In 1979, Sheikh Mubarek Ali Gilani, a Tablighi missionary from
Lahore, Pakistan, arrived in Brooklynwhere he called upon members of Dar ul-Islam,
a notoriously violent street gang, to take arms in the great jihad.
Scores answered his call and were headed off to Pakistan with payments
of thousands of dollars in cash and promises of seventy houris in
seventh heaven, if they were killed in action.[3]
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By 1980, the Agency realized that considerable expense could be saved
by setting up paramilitary camps