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LuckyCharms

(17,466 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:15 PM Jan 2019

Islamberg, NY

There is a Muslim community in Upstate New York called Islamberg.

Four New York State males from the Rochester NY area (apx. 200 miles from Islamberg) have been arrested for planning to bomb this Muslim community.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/22/us/men-accused-bomb-plot-muslim-community-upstate-new-york/index.html

I'm sure that POTUS will publicly condemn these planned actions immediately, because he wants to keep everyone safe.

According to Wikipedia: The hamlet was founded in the late 1980s by Gilani and a group of primarily African American Muslims who left New York City, reportedly to escape crime, poverty and racism. They built a community of some 40 family houses, with its own grocery store and bookstore and place of worship, on some land 11 miles (18 km) north of the town of Hancock. Islamberg is the first of a number of communities set up under the direction and tutelage of Gilani. "Holy Islamberg", as residents refer to it, is also the headquarters of the Muslims of America organization.

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