Author: Ryan Mauro

Testimony by “Abu Mansur”: Former 9-Year Member “Abu Mansur” is the pseudonym of a former member of Fuqra/Muslims of America (MOA) who belonged to the group for about nine years from 1993 to 2002. He traveled to Pakistan to meet Sheikh Gilani in 1999. Abu Mansur agreed to provide his first-hand testimony for this website. His testimony has been verified and certain details have been removed out of safety concerns. Most MOA-affiliated contacts have asked us not to publish their stories. Former members or current dissenters are encouraged to contact us to tell us their stories, privately or for publication.…

Interview with Susan Fenger, Colorado Dept of Labor and Employment Criminal Investigator  Susan Fenger was instrumental in making the case against Jamaat ul-Fuqra as the Chief Criminal Investigator of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, resulting in the raid on the Fuqra terrorist training camp in 1992. She subsequently learned that Sheikh Gilani had put out a hit on her for $50,000, forcing her to move and change her identity. The following is her interview with Ryan Mauro, founder of FuqraFiles.com and Director of Clarion Intelligence Network: Mauro: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and where…

The Clarion Project published the testimony of a woman who grew up within Jamaat ul-Fuqra/Muslims of the Americas in May 2016.[1] She agreed to anonymously come forward with her heartbreaking story. We are removing details for her safety. She provided photographs and specific facts that are unavailable in the public square that we subsequently confirmed. The following is her testimony provided to Clarion Project national security analyst Ryan Mauro; one of the very few first-hand testimonies from someone who was inside Jamaat ul-Fuqra when it committed terrorism under that name: “I still know many Muslims and I know that Jamaat…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) first began defending MOA in 2014 after the Clarion Project broke a story identifying a MOA enclave in Texas, accompanied with declassified FBI documents identifying MOA as an extremist group and terrorist threat. CAIR distributed a biased article by reporter Andrew Horansky of KHOU11 News in Houston that whitewashed MOA.[1] In March 2016, Professor Ryan Mauro, creator of the Fuqra Files, appeared on television with a CAIR official, where he showed pictures from the 1992 raid on the Fuqra/MOA terrorist training camp in Colorado and confronted the official about how CAIR-Massachusetts has a prominent MOA member…

Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) Rep. Mulvaney visited the “Islamville” compound in York County, S.C. in December 2015 and declared he was “looking forward to dispelling the rumors” about the site. The meeting was pre-arranged and lasted 90 minutes. He said, “I can tell people now I have been there and, no, there is not a terrorist camp or any threat in York County” and “This is a group of law-abiding American citizens who are practicing their faith and I saw no reason for anyone to see a threat.”[6] “There are plenty of things that present challenges to our national security…

Craig Dumont, Deputy Sheriff of Delaware County, New York Deputy Sheriff Dumont said in 2015 that there was no information to indicate that jihad training was happening at Islamberg in Hancock, N.Y. He said that the Sheriff’s Department had been inside the 70-acre compound several times for matters unrelated to terrorism and described the MOA headquarters as simply being benign Muslims who peacefully participate in local community activities.[11] He said that his Department said it is “kind of perplexing to us, all of this recent media attention in regard to potential terrorist training camps and things that are going on…

KHOU11 News (Houston): Reporter Andrew Horansky Following the 2014 article on Mahmoudberg, KHOU 11 News reporter Andrew Horansky dismissed concerns about the site as “rumors” based on “scathing online articles.” Not a single quote from the FBI documents or the article was included. The author of the original article, Ryan Mauro, called Horansky, who responded that he did not see the FBI documents that could be viewed through links at the bottom of the article. Horansky did not even contact the Clarion Project to ask to see the FBI documents before reporting on them. Nor did Horansky’s article mention the origin of…

The following is a list of individuals who have spoken at events held by the MOA’s interfaith branch, the United Muslim Christian Forum, according to the group’s publications: The United Muslim Christian Forum website’s home page proudly hosted a picture of then-Mayor of Binghamton, Matthew T. Ryan, holding the organization’s sign. The former mayor of Owego, Edward Arrington, also spoke at a UMCF event and was chairman of the Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church in Owego, New York. Professor Diane O’Heron praised the UMCF at events and was/is the faculty facilitator for the UMCF chapter at Broome Community…

International Qur’anic Open University (IQOU) The International Qur’anic Open University (IQOU) was founded by El Sheikh Syed Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani in 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan. The school is the “premier institute for the study of Islamic traditions, Sufic Sciences and the Holy Quran.”  Guerrilla warfare appears to be taught here as well, and Gilani himself boasts in a video of having “one of the most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare” and invites interested Muslims to contact “IQOU and Muslims of the Americas offices” in Pakistan or one of their United States offices. Students learn hand-to-hand combat, how to…

Other MOA/Fuqra Fronts 786 Security Located in Brooklyn, NY, the Internal Revenue Service raided 786 Security in 2003 for tax evasion for $1.5 million in new sales from one source according to the owner.  The registered owner, a known Fuqra/MOA official, said the IRS accused him of owing $300,000 in federal, $40-50k in state taxes.  Also in 2003, two guards were arrested. Same address as Security 92, Inc. (a security guard and patrol service company that has forty-five members), 786 Security is associated with Dagger Investigative Services, Watchdog Securities, and Mills Security. Article by: Megan L. Ahle Bayt Foundation International Sheikh Gilani identifies himself as the President of…