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When does US news ignore a terror plot? When the target is called Islamberg

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Via:  bob-nelson  •  5 years ago  •  4 comments

When does US news ignore a terror plot? When the target is called Islamberg
Islamberg is a small hamlet of roughly two dozen families in upstate New York that has come to represent some of the most pernicious contradictions of political culture in the United States.

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original Situated 130 miles north of New York City on the Pennsylvania border, the town was formed in the early 1980s by members of an African-American Muslim community in Brooklyn looking to escape the fraught conditions in the city at the time, including the crack epidemic. As such, Islamberg is an almost archetypal example of those ostensibly ‘American’ ideals of religious freedom and the pursuit of a better life. Since its founding, however, the community has contended with rumours of connections to radical Islamic terrorism despite repeated assurances from local law-enforcement that no such threat exists. On the contrary, the rumours have put the community itself in danger.

The US director David Felix Sutcliffe’s film  White Fright  explores Islamberg in the context of a foiled 2015 attack on the community, which was planned by a white Christian minister and ultimately intercepted by the FBI. Splicing together FBI documents, news footage and interviews with Islamberg residents, the documentary probes how deceptive and inflammatory Right-wing news coverage helped to inspire the plan for a massacre at a mosque and school in the town, while other national news outlets barely covered the plot upon its unravelling. Since the film’s release in 2018, Islamberg was subject to  yet another plot to murder its residents that was foiled by law enforcement in January 2019.

Director:  David Felix Sutcliffe  

Producer: Nehad Khader  

Website: Guardian Documentaries


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Bob Nelson
Professor Guide
1  seeder  Bob Nelson    5 years ago

We've had
Driving while Black
Walking while Black
Gardening while Black

This is Living while Black...

Fox News incites racial violence.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
2  Buzz of the Orient    5 years ago

The people who created that town intentionally moved away from darkness to light.  If there is no proof of subversion or support of radical Islamic terrorism on their part, then those who attempt or plan to harm them are the terrorists.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
3  Split Personality    5 years ago

Robert Doggart's plea agreement of 5 years, was thrown out by the trial judge, hence more charges were added and Doggart went to trial getting

2o years on 4 of the 8 charges.

Upon appeal, a federal court now says the plea agreement should have been accepted so Doggart could be released by 2023.

Its been handed back to the Federal courts in Chattanooga TN.

Interesting case. 

Probably not overly reported anywhere because Doggart is a fringe lunatic who was totally fabricating and exaggerating his capabilities and supporters

who thought he could quietly recruit a small army in Tennessee to harm a town in rural New York State.

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
4  bbl-1    5 years ago

Murica rising.  Prepare. 

"Fascism will approach wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."  Paraphrase from Sinclair.  Prepare.  Some of those who shout their patriotism the loudest---may not be what they claim to be.

 
 
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