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November 27, 2006

Anti-dhimmitude in Virginia: Christian group trying to change name of road named for Sheikh linked to Daniel Pearl's murder

A small blow for sanity in Virginia. The road is a private one running through a secretive Muslim community. "Private road named for Muslim is focus of Christian group's bid," by Jamie C. Ruff for the Times-Dispatch, with thanks to Twostellas:

...Members of an organization calling itself the Christian Action Network said they want to appear before the Charlotte County Board of Supervisors to request that the name of Sheikh Gilani Lane, the private road running through the Muslim community, be changed.

Martin Mawyer, president of the Forest-based group, showed up at Tuesday's board meeting to make his case but was not allowed to speak because the issue was not on the agenda. About 30 members of the Muslims of America community were also in attendance but also did not speak.

Members of the Muslim community as well as nearby residents declined to comment when contacted later last week.

The week before, the Christian Action Network, which says it is a nonprofit lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the traditions of the American family and defending the nation against radical Islam, said it dropped from an airplane about 2,500 fliers on the Red House area around the Muslim community. The fliers allege that Sheikh Gilani Lane honors a terrorist and blames him for the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl.

Pearl was reportedly on his way to interview Sheikh Mubarik Gilani, a Muslim cleric in Pakistan, when he was abducted Jan. 23, 2002, in Karachi. Gilani helped found the Muslims of America and the Charlotte County site, as well as several others in rural areas across the country. Federal authorities have alleged that Muslims of America is connected with al-Fuqra and responsible for bombings and murders across the country.

The Christian Action Network's Web site says the group is one of the nation's leading grass-roots Christian political organizations with more than 250,000 active members.

"It is outrageous there is a road sign in Charlotte County named after an international terrorist," Mawyer said in a letter left at the board's meeting last week. "It is an insult to all the victims of 9/11 to continue to honor a known terrorist by granting him a sign that officially appears on the maps of Charlotte County."

Sheikh Gilani Lane was established shortly after the Muslim community was developed. about 10 years ago. County rules allow residents to name their private roads.

"We didn't know who Gilani was, and we felt like it was their business," Clark said. "But 9/11 changed all that."

Clark said the Board of Supervisors has referred the issue to the county attorney to decide whether it can even take up the question of the lane's name without it being an act of discrimination. There is no time frame for when the attorney will finish his research.

"All I can do is wait to hear from our attorney and the board will decide what or what not to do," Clark said.

"Changing the name of the road is not going to change the situation we are faced with," he said. "It wouldn't change anything going on in that community."

That is true.

Posted by Robert at November 27, 2006 9:09 AM
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We need to adopt a new rule in America.


THOU SHALT NOT HONOR ANY KNOWN TERRORISTS OR ANY MUSLIM DUE TO THE FACT HE COULD IN AN INSTANT, BECOME ONE HIMSELF.

Posted by: freewoman [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 9:45 AM

It's sure nice to know that there's "a secret Muslim group" not that far from the capital. Why is it still secret after all these years?

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 10:42 AM

Just shows where the so called Ummah is at to name roads after terrorist filth.

Posted by: dennisw [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 10:44 AM

Well if they never change the name of the road, it will remind us all in the future of what the Muslims value and admire.

It would truly be in the Muslim's best interest to change the name of the road. If they don't this will become the subject of Sunday worship. This is not where the Muslims want to be.

Posted by: credit man [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 10:46 AM

It's sure nice to know that there's "a secret Muslim group" not that far from the capital. Why is it still secret after all these years?

Undoubtely these clowns work in the Wahabbi corridor http://www.sperryfiles.com/corridor.shtml

If they work at all and aren't hatching scams and schemes

Posted by: dennisw [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 10:57 AM

This year in Paris it was planned to name a street after Mumia, but after lots of complaints from people including myself they named it after police officer Faulkner instead.

Posted by: Elephant [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 10:58 AM

This 'private' group is better known as jamaat ul fuqra.

Here is the link to the :
NBC12 news video report

Several of these compounds are scattered across our nation unfettered. Why?

A DIGEST of Jamaat ul-Fuqra Coverage can be found at the blog The Politics of CP


A recent article linking jamaat ul fuqra to many recent terror incidents can be found here:


US ISLAMIC TERROR NETWORK PROTECTED BY US GOV'T. AGENCIES

Patrick Briley July 29, 2006 NewsWithViews.com

Another person to add to the list of names associated with the Middle Eastern terror connection to the OKC bombing is Terry Lenzner, president of IGI, close to the CIA, a close associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton as well as a friend of the Pentagon terror advisor in 1995, Jesse Clear. Lenzner contacted KFORTV reporter Jayna Davis by letter in 1995 and offered his services to investigate the Middle East terror connection. Lenzner and Clear investigated the Middle Eastern terror connection to OKC and found evidence to support their suspicions.

However, Lenzner also worked for Tulsa OK company Hawkins oil who employed Mujeeb Cheema, a Paksitani Muslim tied to the terror group AlFuqra, the Paksitani ISI, and is a director of the Wabbabist North American Islamic Trust. Cheema is strongly suspected in the Middle Eastern terror connection to OKC and NAIT operates all the mosques in the US that have been identified with the 1993 WTC and the OKC bombings and the 9/11 hijackers stretching from the East coast to California. A relative, Fazil Cheema was the Pakistani roommate of the 2005 OU bomber Joel Hinrichs.

Mujeeb Cheema is on the list of witnesses that should be called in Congressman Rohrabacher’s September hearing on the OKC bombing along with Terry Lenzner. Cheema appears to be connected with 9/11 hijacker AlGhamdi who attended the Spartan flight school in Tulsa.

Rohrabacher’s OKC bombing hearings should fully explore the terror activities of AlFuqra in the US and why AlFuqra has intentionally been kept off the US State Department Terror list. Secretary of State Condi Rice and FBI Director Mueller should be called and asked about this.

The FBI and Steve Emerson have recently claimed that the FBI is on top of Hezbollah operations in the US. It is a hollow claim because the FBI continues to do nothing to stop Hezbollah’s protected helper in the US, AlFuqra.

AlFuqra headquartered in Pakistan is working closely with AlQaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah around the world and inside the US. AlFuqra, like AlQaeda, is based in Pakistan and its leader is Sheik Jilani. Reporter, Danny Pearl was trying to track down Jilani and his close associate, Khalid Sheik Mohmmed (KSM) in Pakistan when Pearl was beheaded.

KSM sent hijacker wannabe to live with Melvin Lattimore while Moussaoui attended the Norman, OK flight school.

Yet AlFuqra has been kept off the official US terror watch list for over 20 years even though AlFuqra has been involved in serious terror attacks, has thousands of members and scores of terror training centers in the US. See list of recent AlFuqra terror involvement at end of this article.

Why does Jilani get a free ride with US law enforcement and Congressional committees?

***AlFuqra is part of the OK Terror network that includes Hezbollah, and has been for over 16 years***

Congressmen Rohrabacher and Saxton knew from their director, Joseph Bodansky ( House Task Force on Terrorism -1995) of the AlFuqra terror connection via Lattimore (Menepta) ties to McVeigh in OKC (Travelers Aid) and at an AlFurqra training center at Talahini OK near the white supremacist compound Elohim City, called and visited by McVeigh to see the German national Andreas Strassmeyer. AlFuqra, like AlQaeda, is based in Pakistan ant its leader is Sheik Jilani.

Joseph Bodansky had identified in his book "Terrorism," that AlFuqra operations (pages 148-165) in the US has been known to the FBI, CIA for over twenty years and that AlFuqra has worked with AlQaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas on terror attacks in the US including the OKC bombing. Dana Rohrabacher and James Saxton have known about AlFuqra in the US for years and have done nothing to pressure law enforcement to dry up AlFuqra in the US. AlFuqra was directly involved in the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings and the 9/11 attacks. yet AlFuqra is NOT on the US state Department terror list. Rohrabacher and Saxton should be asked why they have not pressed to put AlFuqra on the terror list..

Here are some very recent examples of Al-Fuqra's violent history in the US:

John Muhammed, the Beltway sniper had direct ties to Al-Fuqra.

Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, who used TATP, had direct ties to Al-Fuqra

Joel Heinrichs, the OU bomber who used TATP, had direct contacts to Al-Fuqra members in OU's and OKC's mosques as well in Colorado Springs.

Mujahid Menepta (Melvin Lattimore) involved directly in the 1993 WTC and OKC bombings as well as the 9/11 attacks is an AlFuqra member.

Sean Gillespie from Tacoma Washington came to an OKC Jewish Center and fire bombed it around 2003. He is another example of a disaffected (feels disenfranchised) white supremacist skinhead "lilly white" likely used by Islamic extremists like AlFuqra in Tacoma to carry out attacks in OKC as they did in the 1995 OKC bombing. Nichols and McVeigh met up with Lattimore and they were considered as lilly whites ( McVeigh went to a Christian Identity compound -Elohim CIty- of white supremacists even though he had worked with blacks before) who worked with the Black Muslims Lattimore (Menepta) and Joe Cecil!

AlFuqra has had a violent past in Tacoma Washington before Sean Gillespie fire bombed the OKC Jewish Center.

AlFuqra and AlQaeda will recruit and exploit any people who feel disenfranchised (with a grievance) to carry out US terror attacks-every one from Blacks, white supremacists, illegal immigrants (from any country, not just Mexico), native American Indians, inmates, etc. This in fact did happen in the OKC bombing case. The Chinese, North Koran and Russian communists are giving AlQaeda and ul-Fuqra guidance on how to use these disgruntled people for their purposes to attack and weaken America.

Excerpts from "Oklahoma Terror network to Hezbollah in US Attacks?"

Members of this network were directly involved in the 1993 WTC bombing, OKC bombing and the 9/11 attacks. Some of its more publicly known participants are black Muslim Melvin Lattimore, Mujeeb Cheema, Samir Khalil, Mr. G, Dr. H, AdulQader and Suhaib Webb.

The head of Syrian Islamic Jihad (now in Lebanon with Hezbollah) Ramadan Sallah was involved with this OKC network and a Syrian OKC attorney Mrs V. An OKC mosque was raided by Fed authorities on March 13, 1995 in a search for Sallah and others associated with Sammy AlArian’s group at WISE at University of Southern Florida. The FBI used agent Kerry Myers to track this group in Florida with Israeli and US dual agent William Northrup for over 13 years.

Hamas leader Meshal was also directly connected with this OK network until going to Syria like Sallah to be protected and work with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Mesahl is now in Egypt with Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Close monitoring of Meshal's and Sallah's activities in Egypt and Lebanon is needed especially if they attempt to make contact with Mrs V and other members of the OK network to help Hezbollah carry out attacks in the US and OK.

Abdulqader was Hamas' top fundraiser in Oklahoma and associated directly with HolyLand foundation and the OK terror network. He has been indicted but is working in Texas on highway designs. GW Bush and his Saudi friends and attorneys (Akin and Gump) were directly involved at HolyLand Foundation in Richardson Texas with Khalid Mahfouz, Dr. H (lives in Ok), AbdulQader, Idris, Alamoudi, AlArian, etc. Bush has used the DOJ and FBI to directly cover up this involvement.

New Information.:

Abdulqater, Meshall and Sallah all were assisted in OK by the AlFuqra terror group and Melvin Lattimore to help in the 1993 WTC and OKC bombings and the 9/11 attacks.

Abdulqader (Hamas, HolyLand Foundation) and Meshall are brothers and both have been and are close to Ramadan Sallah. Sallah and Meshall were protected by Syria after leaving OK and the US after the OKC bombing. Sallah was head of Islamic Jihad and both Sallah and Meshall are working to help Hezbollah and Hamas. Sallah was the target of a raid at an OKC mosque March 13, 1995 known about by OK Congressman Ernest Istook and associated with the OKC bombing and Sammi AlArians group at the University of Southern Florida tracked by the FBI a (agent Kerry Myers) and dual US, Israeli intelligence asset William Northrup.

Abdulqater, Meshall and Sallah all were assisted in OK by the AlFuqra terror group and Melvin Lattimore to help in the 1993 WTC and OKC bombings and the 9/11 attacks.
ANY DOUBTS ABOUT ALFUQRA BEING PROTECTED?

Taken Questions
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 31, 2002
Question Taken at Daily Press Briefing of January 31

Jamaat ul-Fuqra [AlFuqra] Designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization?

Question: The group headed by Shaykh Gilani used to be designated by the State Department as a terrorist group but it was taken off the list. Why?

Answer: 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.

WHY?

Posted by: anonYmouse [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 11:43 AM

Unbeknownst to NY Times dhimmi idiot, Thomas Friedman, the arab street is a lot closer than he thinks.

Posted by: August22 [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 12:06 PM

anonYmouse,

That report you quoted has a lot of assertions, but little evidence.

Examples:

"John Muhammed, the Beltway sniper had direct ties to Al-Fuqra."

What's the evidence for this assertion?

"Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, who used TATP, had direct ties to Al-Fuqra."

What's the evidence for this assertion?

Also, that report suffers at times from syntactical incoherence, example:

"Congressmen Rohrabacher and Saxton knew from their director, Joseph Bodansky ( House Task Force on Terrorism -1995) of the AlFuqra terror connection via Lattimore (Menepta) ties to McVeigh in OKC (Travelers Aid) and at an AlFurqra training center at Talahini OK near the white supremacist compound Elohim City, called and visited by McVeigh to see the German national Andreas Strassmeyer."

What does this sentence mean?

Posted by: remote_control [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 12:24 PM

Reminiscent of the German-American Bund's Camp Siegried, and German Gardens, in Yaphank, NY (Nazi sympathizers) in the 1930's:

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs729b,0,75216.story


Personally, I prefer that the "Sheik Gilani Lane" remain, not renamed. The street-namers choice is instructive to all.
And: I am happy that the Christian Action Network has brought this to light.

Posted by: del [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 12:29 PM

How about just changing the name to the following:

"Sheik Gilani, head-remover Monkey-Pig Jew Daniel Pearl, make benefit glorius nation of Islam, Lane"?

This should be a case of not forgetting history lest we are...

Posted by: Mr. Slugworth [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 12:47 PM

Let them keep their street name, but publish and publicize it in all corners of the West so all the West will know that Islamic Immigration is not good.

Posted by: NicephorusPhocas [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 1:56 PM

Undoubtely these clowns work in the Wahabbi corridor http://www.sperryfiles.com/corridor.shtml

If they work at all and aren't hatching scams and schemes

Posted by: dennisw at November 27, 2006 10:57 AM

Charlotte County is in a very rural part of Virginia that isn't particularly close to DC. I'd estimate it to be about a 4-hour drive. (For history buffs, it's just south of Appomattox County.)

Baron Bodissey over at Gates of Vienna did a 3-part series on this site last year. Part 3 has photos of the town and the street in question (including a close-up of the street sign). If I can get the link to work, check here: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/12/jamaat-ul-fuqra-in-virginia-part-3.html


Posted by: CJ [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 2:32 PM

I presume that Hitler Boulevard, or Mohammad Atta Lane, would not be permitted anywhere in this country, on a public or a private lane. Why then tolerate a place named after Sheikh Gilani? Toponymic transformations will not change Muslim hearts and minds about anything -- of course it won't -- but that was never the point. The point is not to allow people to honor those who do not deserve honoring, and who, most Infidels will agree, represent a threat to them. It will put Muslim hearts and minds on notice that some things are not any longer to be overlooked or, still worse, consciously tolerated, and that if this is not understood and accepted, there is always the exit -- high wide and handsome. For Infidels, the mixture as before would be lethal. Not fast acting, as Polonium-210, but slowly. Quickly or slowly, we refuse to acquiesce, we refuse to be put to bed.

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 3:05 PM

There is always Matamoros Street in Laredo, TX.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 5:01 PM

Elephant wrote:

"This year in Paris it was planned to name a street after Mumia, but after lots of complaints from people including myself they named it after police officer Faulkner instead."

Merci! A little off-topic here, but I seem to recall that Mumia's own brother, who was also at the scene of the crime (though apparently not involved) would not even testify in his defense. I know there are innocent people convicted of crimes, but he certainly is not one of them. I'm glad the French saw sense in that case. Thanks for taking the time to complain.

Posted by: kaffirchick [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 5:27 PM

Perhaps the Christian Action Network could propose some road names of their own:

Pope Urban II Superhighway and Emperor Alexus I Thoroughfare.

Just might give those who chose to name a road in honor of Daniel Pearl's murderer pause.

Posted by: Daisytoo [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 6:46 PM

Hugh,

If this were a public street, I would agree that it should not be tolerated, at all. As a private street, it is in the domain of the owners. Wide publicity and criticism is then useful to show the public what its owners believe in and glorify: the horrors of islam. I hope the street name is not changed, and that the story gets wide publicity.

That there were streets in Yaphank, NY, named by the German-American Bund after hitler, goebbels and goering, was and is instructive to all, concerning what the Bund stood for. The "Muslims of America" group is similiar to the pre WW2 Bund, in its support for a totalitarian supremacist ideology. This ideology is named islam. That ideology was nazism.

Posted by: del [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 27, 2006 8:08 PM

For more on Fritz Kuhn and the Bund, read "Under Cover" by John Roy Carlson. It went through 30-40 editions in one year, and that year was in the middle of World War II. That book should be republished, and put on the syllabuses. And so should John Roy Carlson's "From Cairo to Damascus."

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 28, 2006 1:53 AM

I wish the christian action committee alot of luck. The Muslims have alot of nerve naming a road after a terrorist.But, then again,they don't consider islamic mass murderers evil.

The road should be renamed Pearl Road. Now that would be more appropriate.

Posted by: callmeinfidel [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 28, 2006 8:12 AM

Yes, that's true. It won't change anything in that community. But it sends a message. American communities will not tolerate the slow and gradual pressure placed on our society to change into an Islamic culture.

Immigrants in the past(I being one) have come to America and joined in the melting pot, enrichened it and become mainstream Americans. Immigrants who come here and set up enclaves with the idea of changing American society to their image and likeness need to understand that it is not going to happen. Street names, earmarking taxis as Islamic, calling to prayer 5 times a day...etc are all first steps and must be rejected. And rejected in the strongest terms. No political correctness!!!

I understand that one of the Paris streets has been named after Yassir Arafat. America is no France!

Il Toscano

Posted by: il toscano [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 28, 2006 10:22 AM

With a name like Gilani, it has to be a Dead End.

-XRDC

Posted by: XRDC [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 28, 2006 10:40 AM

Ph yes there are no moderate Muslims so therefore not even one moderate name can be located? Well doesn't that tell the whole story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: mark52 [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 28, 2006 6:23 PM

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