Jamaat_ul-Fuqra
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Pakistani and U.S. Islamist organisation
Jamaat ul-Fuqraa' (alternatively Jamaat al-Fuqraa'; Arabic: جماعة الفقراء, "Community of the Impoverished") is a terrorist[1][2][3] organization mostly based in Pakistan and the United States. Some of the approximately 3,000 members have planned various acts of violence, often directed at rival factions.[4] Two Al-Fuqra members were convicted of conspiring to murder Rashad Khalifa in 1990,[5][6] and others are alleged to have assassinated Ahmadiyya leader Mozaffar Ahmad in 1983[7][8] are the same as Jamaat ul-Fuqra, but this has not been confirmed. These allegations are primarily made by far-right organizations, many who believe the organizations are operating terrorist training camps in the United States.[9] Muslims of America denies any connection.[10]
The group is separatist, and was described by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) and a similar profile in the database of the South Asian Terror Portal as a cult.[11][12]