O'Reilly jumps on WND terror-training camp report

WND reported on Tuesday that the FBI knew of at least 22 paramilitary Islamic communes in the U.S. run by the shadowy Pakistan-based Jamaat al-Fuqra and its American branch, Muslims of the Americas, and the questions those locations give rise to.

Just 24 hours later, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly was interviewing Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, which focuses its studies on extremism, about some of those same locations.

He told O'Reilly that one of the dangerous spots is in Hancock, New York, about 145 miles from Manhattan, where there is actually a place called Islamberg.

The 60-acre compound features military-style training and is run by Muslims of America, Mauro said.

He explained that the group is not a designated terror organization, so police can do little but monitor the activities of the estimated 3,000 people who are part of it across the U.S.

Other points to pay attention to, Mauro said, were several mosques where preachers have been known to talk about getting arms for jihadis as a priority, and where Muslim leaders talk about turning America into an Islamic caliphate.

"This is pretty frightening stuff," said O'Reilly. "My question is, should Americans be concerned?"

Mauro said there is danger, because of the ideology taught in those locations.

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WND reported a day earlier on the American locations run by supporters of Sufi cleric Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani.

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It was last week's brazen attack by a "home-grown" terrorist cell in France that targeted the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has sparked renewed interest in potential cells operating inside the United States.

And there are many.

WND reported the FBI is aware of at least 22 paramilitary Islamic communes run by Muslims of the Americas – in California, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee and more.

The FBI describes the MOA compound in Texas, called Mahmoudberg, as an enclave and "communal living site." Located in Brazoria County along County Road 3 near Sweeny, Texas, it was discovered more than 10 years ago by the FBI through a tip from an informant in New York.

The Texas commune, in a heavily wooded area, is estimated by a local resident to encompass about 25 acres. It dates back to the late 1980s, the resident said, which is confirmed by the FBI documents previously reported on by WND.

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Pamela Geller, author of the Atlas Shrugs blog and the book "Stop the Islamization of America," has been following the militant training compounds since 2007.

Most of the recruits living at these communes are African-Americans who converted to Islam while doing hard time in state or federal prisons, Geller says. They have operated "under the not-so-watchful eye" of the FBI since the early 1980s, she says, but few Americans are aware of their existence all these years later.

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