Islamberg, a predominantly black Muslim community in upstate New York, was in shock after police arrested alleged conspirators targeting the small village.
Residents of the beleaguered village learned in mid-January that four young men had allegedly planned to attack their community with homemade explosives and guns. If carried out, analysts say, it would have been the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
“Just imagine waking up and having to tell your children about this plot, that their lives are in danger,” said Rashid Clark, mayor of Islamberg, a 70-acre gated homesteading community in the Catskill Mountains that has been home to about 200 African American Muslims for nearly 40 years.
