Tuesday, May 15, 2007

BLOGGER THREATENED


A blogger has been threatened for running a story on Islamberg located in Hancock, New York. Scott Grayban had two threatening phone calls made to his home on 14 May by a "foreigner". In one sense, this is good in that it indicates that the blogosphere is having an effect on the Islamists. It seems they can't handle the truth or the light of day. Anyone recieving such threats should immediately call law enforcement and make such threats public.

THE WAR IS ON AND ESCALATING. DON’T BE AFRAID, BE ANGRY. BE VERY ANGRY AND FIGHT BACK. IT IS WAY PAST TIME FOR AMERICA TO WAKE UP AND ADDRESS THE ISLAMIST THREAT. WHEN ANY AMERICAN IS THREATENED FOR EXERCISING HIS RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH, ALL AMERICANS ARE THREATENED.

An excerpt from canadafreepress:
The story, posted by Michael Savage and carried by dozens of blogs, including www.littlegreenfootballs.com, was virtually ignored by the mainstream media.
Someone didn't like the story and that someone threatened the life of U.S. war veteran and blogger Scott Grayban.
Grayban publishes blog.borgnet.us. (http://blog.borgnet.us/) in Spokane, Washington.
CFP receives thousands of emails from readers. The one from Grayban's blogger friend caught our immediate attention.
The blogger, whose name is being withheld by CFP, hoped flagging the Internet might protect Grayban's physical safety if someone publicized the two threats made on his life over the telephone.
That is the reason for this story.
Grayban received two phone calls on Sunday night from a foreigner, threatening his life.
"The caller used a hacked phone (or internet line) to disguise the location from which he was calling. (Please see jpeg of record/caller ID attached at bottom of page).
"The caller told Scott the precise street on which he lives, that he lives across from an auto shop, that he has a solar panel in his apartment window and the make of the car he drove to the mall on Saturday."
As the blogger pointed out, "These aren't details anyone could obtain from Google Earth."
Someone is following Scott Grayban in Washington State. Yet the local FBI office told him to call the police. The local police told him to call the FBI and his phone carrier (Vonage) said there's no way to trace the call.
There might be a way to trace the call with a court order, but it's unlikely that Grayban could ever get one.
Cold comfort for a man who's being stalked and threatened.
The blogger made the decision to "publicize this threat has occurred" and sent out an email to ask if anyone else who carried this story has also been threatened.
No one at CFP, who originally ran the Williams' story, has been threatened. The writer of this article was unable to reach Paul Williams at his Pennsylvania home at press time and is convinced that she would have heard from the author if he had been threatened.
Williams and Northeast Intelligence Director and private investigator Doug Hagmann, scouted out a Jihadist camp dubbed Islamberg, at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, last summer.

"Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr". Gilani has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat u-Fuqra or "community of the impoverished", an organization that seeks to "purify" Islam through violence.
"Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of "retaliation". "We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by", one resident said. "They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?"
"Even though Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been involved in terror attacks and sundry criminal activities, recruited thousands of members from federal and state penal systems, and appears to be operating paramilitary facilities for militant Muslims, it remains to be placed on the official US Terror Watch List. On the contrary, it continues to operate, flourish and expand as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity."
It seems that Williams and company raised a hornet's nest in their visit to Islamberg and some of the hornets went buzzing all the way to Spokane, Washington.
Meanwhile the blogger who tipped off CFP about the threats to Scott Grayban, emailed to say a report was finally taken by Spokane Washington police. The SPD report number is 07-132-368.
Let's hope that Grayban remains safe from harm.