Posted on 05/23/2009 11:52:56 AM PDT by Brilliant
The possibility that the alleged New York bomb plotters converted to Islam in prison and adopted radical views could provide evidence of how the criminal-justice system can be fertile ground for terrorist recruitment.
Authorities said they believed all four men charged in the attack were Muslim and that some may have converted in prison. It isn't clear whether these conversions were linked to the radical views officials say they espoused while plotting to bomb two New York City synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes...
According to New York state corrections records, alleged ringleader James Cromitie and David Williams gave their religion as Muslim during their most recent prison sentences... Police believe two or more of the suspects converted to Islam while in prison... "While we do not believe there is widespread terrorist-inspired radicalization or recruiting occurring in federal prisons, we do recognize that the potential for inmates to be radicalized is present," said Traci Billingsley, spokeswoman... Ms. Billingsley said between 5% and 6% of the federal inmate population identify as Muslims...
Salahuddin Muhammad, imam at the mosque, has worked for more than 20 years as a chaplain at Fishkill Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Beacon, N.Y., according to the Department of Corrections. He said his message at his mosque and in prison visits is much the same: tolerance, and the need for people to take responsibility for their lives.
He said he converted very few people in prison, attributing the small numbers to "bad press" that Islam receives.
Mr. Muhammad said he recognized Mr. Cromitie -- who he said wasn't a mosque member -- but didn't know him... Mr. Muhammad, who has spent time in state prison for robbery, has been an imam since 1986 and in Newburgh since 1992...
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Ah. The infamous neon-green WTF llama.
I don’t have the impetus to insert it in the pic in post #2. Seems fitting, and slightly less vulgar.
islamic muzzies, to me, are vulgar.
I can’t argue with that assessment. There are good people who happen to be muslim but...
Anyway, one morning I went to use the copier and the imam had just finished with it and when I lifted the top I saw that he had left the original paper that he was making copies of. I picked it up and imagine my surprise to see a sketch of a black man with a gash in his forehead and blood dripping from his head sitting on a stool behind bars and, in large, bold letters at the top of the page were the words "The Oppressed Black American Male". There were several paragraphs under that heading, but I returned the paper without reading them.
I left the paper there because I thought he'd be right back for it and I didn't want him to catch me reading it but now I think I should have kept it in case anything happens at the prison or one of our inmates gets released and commits jihad somewhere.
I believe these people have infested our prisons and are doing great harm under the guise of religious freedom and religious rights for prisoners and under the pretense that any religion is better than none.
I don't think this incident in New York will be the last.
Mine was in the garbage as soon as I left work that day and spotted a trash can in a grocery store parking lot.
The danger posed by Islamists in our prison system was identified many, many years ago.....long before 9/11.
Of course, doing something about it is another matter due to political correctness and liberals’ love of anything non-Christian.
Exactly. Something told me to leave the paper where it was. I have never gone wrong trusting my instinct, so I left it alone. God only knows what would have happened if he saw me reading the paper, which I'm positive he did not mean for anyone to see, and decided to make an issue of it.
Read it if you can tolerate it IMO. A functional societal/family background leaves the verses, to quote you, vulgar.
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