MUSLIMS OF THE AMERICAS IN BINGHAMTON NY, by PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR BILL WARNER, Ramadan Abdullah is a cop killer.

MOA Cop Killer Ramadan Abdullah on trial, MOA Parade in Binghamton NY "I PULLED THE TRIGGER WHILE I WAS IN PRAYER" Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra aka Muslims of the Americas, is on trial this week in California for the 2001 murder of a sheriff’s deputy.

A local news report gives an account of testimony heard by jurors, including a tape of Abdullah’s questioning by detectives after the murder. Al-Fuqra Exposed is a website dedicated to monitoring and reporting on the activities of Jamaat ul-Fuqra and the Muslims of the Americas trial of Ramadan Abdullah:Finally facing justice for his crime, Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, now 26, went on trial this week in Fresno County, California for killing Deputy Sheriff Erik Telen in 2001.

He is pleading insanity in his defense. Abdullah is originally from Binghamton, NY and was a member of the Muslims of the Americas (MOA). Spread throughout the country, the MOA, made up of primarily African-Americans, are a cult-like offshoot sect of Sufi Muslims who follow Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani of Pakistan. The organization serves as a religious front for a radical militant group known as Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JuF), a secretive network also headed by Gilani. For all practical purposes, the groups are one and the same, though members’ knowledge of and/or involvement in illicit activity varies.

If it were a fundamentalist Christian group organizing the event, dozens of reporters and photographers would be wearing out shoe leather to dig up as much damaging material as possible But MOA gets a pass.
 
“Muslims of the Americas was formed in the 1980s when several families migrated from ghetto properties in New York City to Hancock to make a new start on their own property in a clean, rural environment…”Muslims of America also spent the 1980s firebombing Hindu temples, murdering rivals, stockpiling automatic weapons, and committing welfare fraud. But there’s no need to dredge up all that old stuff — it’s ancient history.Time to put it all behind us and — to coin a phrase — move on.  

The same group, the Muslims of America, has organized a parade this Saturday in downtown Binghamton, New York, to celebrate Mohammed’s birthday. They're coming over from their nearby national headquarters to engage in some multicultural festivities.When you read the press reports about the upcoming parade, there’s no investigative effort by the media to report on MOA’s background.


Saturday’s parade — which will involve the closure of several streets and the assistance of police — had to be approved by Binghamton’s mayor, Matt Ryan. If you look at the website for the mayor’s office, you’ll see that the Executive Assistant to the Mayor is named Tarik Abdelazim. And who’s responsible is issuing permits for public events in the city of Binghamton? Here’s what it says at City Hall’s FAQ page: How do I go about arranging a public event at City Hall or in the Community?  Contact Tarik Abdelazim, Executive Assistant to the Mayor Matt Ryan, at (607) 772-7001.

Tarik Abdelazim Binghamton, N.Y. So here we have a prominent unelected official in the Binghamton city government who says, in effect, that the beheading of hostages to make terrorist videos is morally and esthetically equivalent to the war against Muslim terrorists. Is it any wonder, then, that Mr. Tarik Abdelazim is also the person responsible for inviting the members (cop killers) of Jamaat ul-Fuqra to parade through the downtown streets of his fair city?TarikAbdelazim, also known as “the deputy mayor”, is the go-to guy if you want to organize a parade in Binghamton for friends of a cop killer. Up until at least 2005 he was an active journalist and community organizer. He kept a blog and ran a website called Modoc Press, part of “the global archipelago of dissent”. He was an editor for the New York University inter disciplinary journal Anamesa and participated in something known as the narcosphere. His politics seem to have been — to put it mildly — progressive. In fact, for a time he held the position of “Binghamton’s Progressive Advocate”. He appeared in the Radicalendar and many Indymedia newsletters and event listings. He helped organize antiwar marches back in 2002 and 2003, and took part in a local initiative to impeach President Bush.

He was especially active on behalf of the St. Patrick’s Four: "On Monday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day [2003], four of us from the Ithaca Catholic Worker Community — Peter De Mott, who served in both the Marines and the Army including a year in Vietnam as a Marine, Clare and Teresa Grady and Daniel Burns — went to the Army-Marine Recruiting Center in an act of nonviolent civil resistance to war making. We read the following statement and poured blood around the entrance to the center, including on the flag, to call attention to the horror of war."

The protesters were arrested for their disruption of activities at the recruiting center, prosecuted in federal court, and eventually convicted. And Tarik Abdelazim was with them all the way, reporting on their case and pleading for their cause.

The most telling quote from Mr. Abdelazim’s writings can be found in this letter to the editor of The New York Times Magazine: "The Terrorist As Auteur" Published: November 28, 2004....In the context of filmed beheadings, [Michael] Ignatieff concludes that we still have the choice to decline our enemy’s invitation deeper into the darkening vortex of anything goes. More likely — and sadly — we are already there. Whether by firebombing in aerial raids or mutilation by knives, the death of innocent civilians should disgust us equally. Consider this: Is it the filmed act itself that constitutes a more repugnant form of barbarism, or is it that such war imagery dared to puncture our mission of liberation? What’s more, if we could compress all those killings we cleanly record as “collateral damage” into a single picture of carnage, I would bet Ignatieff would have a hard time determining which image reached deeper into his moral void.

Note: MOA variously calls itself “the Muslims of America” and “Muslims of the Americas”, so the difference in titles in this article is not a typo.