Posted on 11/04/2001 7:09:20 AM PST by Texas Mom
Friday, Nov. 2, 2001 1:38 p.m. EST
Prison Chaplain Calls bin Laden a 'Muslim Hero'
A prison chaplain in upstate New York's Albion Correctional Facility has been put on paid administrative leave after telling inmates that Osama bin Laden should be "a hero to all Muslims."
"This afternoon, we put on administrative leave Chaplain Aminah Akbar, who is a Muslim chaplain, pending an investigation into her conduct," said James Flateau, spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services, in an interview with the Buffalo News on Thursday.
Akbar spoke to a group of about 120 inmates and a half-dozen corrections officers at the prison Saturday during an event billed as "American Solidarity Day," the paper said.
Officers who took notes during her speech said Akbar told the group:
"Bin Laden is a warrior for Allah, as all Muslims should be. Bin Laden is a hero to all Muslims. The Taliban are right in not letting the U.S. take bin Laden. The U.S. has no proof that he destroyed the World Trade Center."
Inmates as well as corrections officer were offended by her remarks, with many of the guards filing written complaints, the News said.
Other remarks attributed to Akbar included complaints about slavery.
"We have been beaten and harassed for over 500 years, and we should not take it anymore," she reportedly told the group, adding, "I am not an American, I just live here."
"The United States is a giant country," Chaplain Akbar continued. "Why are they bombing a country the size of a pea?"
Akbar's praise for bin Laden echoes that of New Black Panther Party spokesman Malik Shabazz, who told the National Press Club over the weekend that the U.S. was scapegoating the Mideast terrorist.
"Blame President Bush" for the Sept. 11 attacks, Shabazz insisted.
For education and discussion purposed only
If it were up to me, she wouldn't be living here much longer. Deport her.
You would think so wouldn't you? How about FIRED!!!!!
I like the part where her people have been treated badly over the years,while at the same time she is " on the Teat" of the New York State Corrections Department...
I am really tired of our govt. and Media giving these Traitorist Race Haters a forum to spew their Incindiary Garbage.
GET THE EFF OUT OF MY COUNTRY BEFORE SOMEONE DOES YOU.
If a White man or woman tried this crap they would be clamped in jail..
EX New Yorker
I have mixed emotions about that. I think everyone should know there are people like this around. Know your enemy. They have been here and spewing their hate and recruiting all along and no one did anything.
My son works for the Texas Criminal Justice System and he sees this all the time in our prisons.
Haven't you hearh? We have an open society and nothing can be done about people like this.. They have more protections than law abiding citizens.
I agree with you, but it's a good thing my blood pressure is low to start with because if it wasn't I would probably have a stroke. I may need to take a break from FR for a couple of days just to calm down.
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