On Trial in California and on Parade in Binghamton

Jamaat ul-Fuqra is back in the news. Gates of Vienna has a thorough report on the latest member to be facing murder charges for killing a police officer. Visit Gates of Vienna for much more information on Jamaat ul-Fuqra (AKA Muslims of America), it's many compounds in America and it's shadowy leader Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani.

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On Trial in California and on Parade in Binghamton
by Baron Bodissey

Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, is on trial this week in California for the 2001 murder of a sheriff’s deputy. A local news report gives an account of recent testimony heard by jurors, including a tape of Abdullah’s questioning by detectives not long after the murder.

Al-Fuqra Exposed is a website dedicated to monitoring and reporting on the activities of Jamaat ul-Fuqra and the Muslims of America. Yesterday’s post discussed the trial of Ramadan Abdullah:

Finally facing justice for his crime, Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, now 26, went on trial this week in Fresno County, California for killing Deputy Sheriff Erik Telen in 2001. He is pleading insanity in his defense.

Abdullah is originally from Binghamton, NY and was a member of the Muslims of the Americas (MOA). Spread throughout the country, the MOA, made up of primarily African-Americans, are a cult-like offshoot sect of Sufi Muslims who follow Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani of Pakistan. The organization serves as a religious front for a radical militant group known as Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a secretive network also headed by Gilani. For all practical purposes, the groups are one and the same, though members’ knowledge of and/or involvement in illicit activity varies.

A former member of JuF talked to Al-Fuqra Exposed about Abdullah, specifically addressing the question of the defendant’s sanity:

No matter what, he still had enough of JF teachings in him so at some point he was sane. As a younger teenager he used to teach the younger boys…the basic training all members have. I do know he had excellent rifle training because I would hear his name in reference to that matter.

In fact, the prosecutor said in court of Abdullah’s accuracy, “This was a very well-aimed and well-timed shot that was fatal to Deputy Erik Telen hitting him directly in the head.” Telen died instantly.

The prosecutor is reminding us of something that state and national law enforcement agencies know all too well: Jamaat ul-Fuqra stockpiles firearms, and trains its members in their use, in dozens of isolated rural compounds scattered across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The group has a well-documented history of violence, fraud, and other criminality.

Go over to Al-Fuqra Exposed for more detailed coverage of the trial of Ramadan Abdullah, including extensive quotes from the former member of JuF.
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