Author: Ryan Mauro

Written by Fuqra/MOA. Obtained through the Library of Congress. The other book by Fuqra located in the Library of Congress was stolen according to LOC employees, which was not discovered until The Clarion Project went to the LOC to read the book.  Books from the Library of Congress cannot be checked out.  Only read or copied in one of their copy center locations.  In order for it to have been unavailable for someone that requested it, it would have been stolen. Target Islam: Exposing the Malicious Conspiracy of the Zionists Against the World of Islam and Prominent Muslim Leaders. (1994).…

Sheikh Gilani and MOA had extensive links to the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman, the leader of the Egyptian Gama’a Islamiyya terrorist group responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a planned follow-up wave of bombings in New York City that was foiled. The Blind Sheikh’s group, Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas were so intertwined at the time that they were essentially indistinguishable. The Blind Sheikh’s fatwa calling for violent jihad against the U.S. was cited by Bin Laden as his authoritative justification for the 9/11 attacks. Rahman’s preaching included saying: “Muslims everywhere to dismember their nation, tear them apart, ruin…

Sheikh Gilani and Fuqra/MOA deny having any links to Al-Qaeda but the group has worked with Al-Qaeda affiliates and individual Al-Qaeda operatives. MOA believes that Usama Bin Laden did not carry out the 9/11 attacks and Al-Qaeda is part of a Zionist conspiracy. A 2003 FBI counter-terrorism report asserted that MOA has links to Al-Qaeda affiliates in Pakistan. A 2005 DEA report made a similar claim. 2003 FBI Counter-Terrorism Investigation into MOA Declassified FBI reports show that there was a counter-terrorism investigation into Jamaat ul-Fuqra / Muslims of America (MOA) in New York in 2003. One file has the heading,…

Harakat Ul-Ansar is currently known as Harakat-ul-Mujahideen and has been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department since 1997. It uses different names to work around international sanctions and formed a new front in 2014 named Ansar Ul-Ummah.[i] A 1995 U.S. State Department memo states that Harakat-ul-Ansar (now known as Harakat-ul-Mujahideen) had a “handful” of American Muslim recruits, estimating the number to be between 6 and 16 “who are adherents to a Pakistani pir.” It then says a source identified that pir (a Sufi religious title) as named Wijahad Ali and located in Rawalpindi, but there is no…

Fuqra/MOA is linked to the Trinidad-based Jamaat Al-Muslimeen (JAM) extremist group that is best known for trying to overthrow the government in a 1990 coup. MOA currently has a presence in Trinidad, as explained the section about Fuqra/MOA activity outside of the U.S. A 2008 U.S. State Department memo said that JAM’s prestige fell after the 1990 coup and “the JAM now is alleged to be essentially a criminal gang, not a terrorist group and also involved on the fringes of local politics.”[1]  A 2007 FBI document about a terrorist plot against JFK International Airport, in which Al-Qaeda operatives tried…

MOA subtly expressed sympathy for the group in August 2016. Its newspaper included an article condemning India for killing a “top pro-independence militant leader.” The individual was the Hizbul Mujahideen operations commander in Kashmir.[i] Sheikh Gilani and Hizbul Mujahideen are commonly associated with Pakistani intelligence, specifically Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed, a senior operative of the Pakistani ISI intelligence service who led the Intelligence Bureau from 1990 to 1993. Various reports have linked Brig. Imtiaz to Sheikh Gilani.[ii] An official MOA letter to President Bush dated March 18, 1990 declared that all able-bodied Muslims are required to participate in a jihad against…

Tablighi Jamaaat (TJ) is an international movement rooted in Southeast Asia that has been called scrutinized for its secrecy and the frequency with which terrorist groups recruit from its membership.[i] It has been described as an “indirect line to terrorism.”[ii] Fuqra/MOA is linked to T.J., according to B. Raman, who the counter-terrorism division of India’s Research and Analysis Wing intelligence agency from 1988 to 1994. He went so far as to say that Fuqra is a “front organization” for the TJ movement.[iii] One of the founding fathers of MOA, Muhammad Hasib Haqq, said in a deposition that the terminology used for…

Islamic Post aka Islamic Chronicle aka Islamic News Agency aka Insight – Islamic Observer aka Muslim Observer The Islamic Post is the official newspaper of MOA. It has gone through various name changes. The organization describes itself as “an international newspaper based in New York, NY, that serves as a media channel for The Muslims of America, Inc.. For decades, The Islamic Post has provided an unbiased view of world events, cutting edge news, and a fresh perspective that includes topics of importance to all citizens of the world.”[i] When the name of the newspaper was Islamic Chronicle, it identified itself as “the…

Kashmiri American Friendship Society KAFS was/is a MOA entity used to build support for the Pakistani and Kashmiri cause against India. An issue of the MOA’s newspaper from the 1990’s refers to a specific location called the Kashmiri American Friendship Society Center. It said that Suhir A. Ahmed handled the organization’s fundraising. The newspaper documents its holding of an event that included speakers from several mosques including the Islamic Center of Bootan in New Jersey, the Maki Mosque in Brooklyn and the Kashmiri Center of New York. Although the organization is officially focused on Kashmir, it participated in a rally…

International Islamophobia Conference MOA held its first annual International Islamophobia Conference in Albany, New York on November 22, 2015. It announced the formation of a political coalition named the International United Muslim Forum at the event. It was held at the Muslim Community Center of the Capital District in Schenectady, New York.[i] The event included three officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), including one that is common official between MOA and CAIR’s Massachusetts chapter. The U.S. Justice Department designated CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a CAIR-linked charity that was shut…