Grass roots Muslim terror in US, and foreign targeting of black American criminals.

The following is a somewhat bewildering clump of information that would make your rookie intelligence or police investigator delirious with joy at the prospect of following up on all the leads.

We've already noted rank Saudi Arabia subversion in actively recruiting America's violent, low-life, criminal underclass.

Now we see further evidence of radical Muslim efforts to recruit black Americans into the extremist orbit, under the banner of the violent Jamaat al-Fuqra:

Most, though not all, of the members of Fuqra are African-American, U.S. citizens who have adopted extremist beliefs and live in communal environments, or “Jamaats.” It is believed that over thirty-five (35) Jamaats have existed in the U.S. since 1980, in addition to more than a dozen “covert training compounds” in Colorado, Texas, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Alabama, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Tennessee.... In 1991, Canadian authorities also discovered a 232-acre compound in Ontario that housed at least sixteen Fuqra members.^[1]

See also, on this point, a Washington Times article^[2] reporting the fears of Roy Innis, chairman of the conservative Congress of Racial Equality, that there is "an increasing alliance between Middle East-based terrorists and domestic black Islamicists."

Note, too, the suspected connection between one of the Beltway snipers and this Jamaat al-Fuqra and between it, the Pakistani cleric Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, and the tax exempt Muslims of America. (The "Sheik" was the man Daniel Pearl was on his way to see when he was kidnapped and murdered.)^[3]

Clearly something very strange and very deliberate in connection with the black American criminal population is going on here with a big red flag about where the financing for these jamaats is concerned. (Kinda makes you long for the days when we thought ashrams were the latest sign of spiritual decay and the end of civilization as we know it.)

Mr. David Schantz makes the interesting observation^[4] that the federal government was able to "solve" (our word) the problem of Ruby Ridge and Waco but does nothing about these kinds of compounds.

David Koresh was incinerated by the federal government for alleged child abuse (call us when you find the constitutional authority for federal intervention because of that offense) and some alleged minor weapons violations (qualified ditto on that). With as much "hatred" and "extremism" that appears to exist in these various jamaats, wouldn't these jokers merit a low-yield nuclear air burst? Under the Janet Reno rules of engagement, anyway.

Similarly, a commenter somewhere in these references wondered where is the usual enthusiasm for hate crime prosecutions. The Colonel isn't much of a fan of such laws (preferring a revival of sedition laws and creative use of Congress's power to limit federal court jurisdiction, truth be known) but he wonders where is the world class creativity that is normally brought to bear when some "hate"-hyped honkey commits a PiC "indiscretion."

We hope that resort to garden variety prosecutorial options applying traditional criminal law principles is simply in abeyance pending further collection of valuable intel.

Still, these snakes have been around since 1982 or so and it would hardly be rushing things to "get 'er done" like . . . uh, now, would it?

Notes
^[1] Jemaat ul-Fuqra, The Politics of CP.
^[2] "Justice, CORE To Discuss Terrorists' Wooing Of Blacks." By Steve Miller, Washington Times, 11/13/02.
^[3] "Accused Snipers May Be Followers." By Steve Miller, Washington Times, 11/13/02.
^[4] "Jamaat ul-Fuqra in Virginia, Part 1." By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna, 10/10/05.