By Pam Meister
Last Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to attend a screening in New York City of the movie The Third Jihad, produced by Raphael Shore, founder of the Clarion Fund, a non-profit, non-political media company educating the public about national security threats. Narrated by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and an FSM contributing editor, The Third Jihad effectively defines the threat the United States and the entire Western world faces from radical Islam.
Scenes of burka-clad women being beaten in the street, young men being hanged in Iran for being homosexuals, and strident imams calling for Islam to take over the world are bad enough. Most informed people know that’s going on, but when it goes on halfway around the world, it can be easy enough to ignore when we have our own pressing problems to worry about.
Viewers learn of a compound called Islamberg. A 70-acre compound located in upstate New York near the town of Deposit, it is a branch of Muslims of the Americas, Inc., formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani. Gilani has been linked to the radical group Jamaat ul-Fuqra, an organization that seeks to purify Islam through violence. Frightened neighbors in Deposit say they “can hear gunfire up there.” Read more ...
Last Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to attend a screening in New York City of the movie The Third Jihad, produced by Raphael Shore, founder of the Clarion Fund, a non-profit, non-political media company educating the public about national security threats. Narrated by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and an FSM contributing editor, The Third Jihad effectively defines the threat the United States and the entire Western world faces from radical Islam.
Scenes of burka-clad women being beaten in the street, young men being hanged in Iran for being homosexuals, and strident imams calling for Islam to take over the world are bad enough. Most informed people know that’s going on, but when it goes on halfway around the world, it can be easy enough to ignore when we have our own pressing problems to worry about.
Viewers learn of a compound called Islamberg. A 70-acre compound located in upstate New York near the town of Deposit, it is a branch of Muslims of the Americas, Inc., formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani. Gilani has been linked to the radical group Jamaat ul-Fuqra, an organization that seeks to purify Islam through violence. Frightened neighbors in Deposit say they “can hear gunfire up there.” Read more ...
Source: FSM
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