Posted on 01/10/2006 6:18:27 PM PST by neverdem
EXTREMIST chaplains' domination and intimidation of Muslim believers incarcerated in New York prisons remains a major problem. Worse, the state Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is fighting to preserve this dangerous status quo.
Last week's illegal-weapon charges against Warith Deen Umar, the former chief Muslim chaplain of the state prison system, were one sign. The raid this past weekend on his upstate home by NYPD counterterror cops was another.
Born Wallace Gene Marks, Umar — now 61 — was once an adherent of Louis Farrakhan, with the alias Wallace 10X. He began his activities as a prison chaplain in 1975.
Gov. Pataki barred Umar from the prisons in 2003, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Umar had expressed support for the 9/11 terrorists — admitting that Muslims "who say they are against terrorism secretly admire and applaud" bin Laden's mass murderers. (According to Umar, the Koran doesn't forbid terrorism even against the innocent. "This is the sort of teaching they don't want in prison," he said. "But this is what I'm doing.")
But that was it — the state didn't do anything at all about the clique of radical clerics that Umar had installed during the more than 25 years he worked in the prison system.
The concern isn't simply about ideas — as last week's weapons charges against Umar attest. Police seized a 12-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber rifle and computers in an apartment of Umar's on Union Avenue. The counterterror raid on his Glenmont home confiscated more computers.
But the ideas make the weapons scarier. The extremists who maintain an ideological monopoly over Muslims in New York jails are guided by the totalitarian Wahhabi sect based in Saudi Arabia, which has paid for Umar to travel there and study the methods of radical propaganda.
Since 2003, I have...
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Well.. oils well that ends well....eh?.
This is a cogent argument for the presence of Camp Delta. Imagine these islamofascists within the US Prison Population ... UGH.
the enemies within - OUR PRISONS recruiting and fanning the flames of anti-americanism & terrorism!!
shocking
Prisoners feel down, they feel they need a purpose in life.
>shocking
Yeah, shocking is right!
Haven't they learned to be subtle and less blatant about it?
Maybe they can go to prison rabbis for lessons.
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