Posted on 05/30/2004 11:45:07 AM PDT by firebrand
While the media remain fixated on the plight of Muslim prisoners in Iraq, they have largely ignored the danger that radicalized Muslim prisoners pose here at home. The Justice Department's inspector general this month released a disturbing report that exposed federal prisons as a fertile breeding ground for terrorists. It was a red alert on a bureaucratic failure that jeopardizes not only other inmates and prison employees, but also the country at large. Yet it got next to no notice.
Islamic extremists have infiltrated jails worldwide to lure convicts to their murderous cause. The problem is thought to be much worse in Europe. For example, Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber," converted to Islam with the help of an extremist imam in a British prison. In France, thousands of Muslim inmates have been schooled in jihad against "the Western powers and the Jews who manipulate them," as one widely circulated prison pamphlet puts it. Radicalized French detainees have reportedly erected a "terrorist university" behind bars offering anti-Western material and instruction in bomb-making.
But we know it happens in America, too. Jose Padilla, the accused "Dirty Bomber," converted to Islam during a stint at a Broward County, Fla., jail and is alleged to have fallen in with terrorist recruiters after his release.
And Aqil Collins, a self-confessed jihadist turned FBI informant, converted to Islam while doing time in a California juvenile detention center. At a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, he went on to train with one of the men accused of kidnapping and beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Yet the inspector general's report warned that even the relatively well-managed federal prison system has lagged on addressing the threat.
The report was done at the request of Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) after The Wall Street Journal reported on the scandalous employment of Warith Deen Umar, former head Islamic chaplain of New York's state prison system, who also served as a federal U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) contractor.
The Journal quoted Umar saying at a public event, "Even Muslims who say they are against terrorism secretly admired and applaud [the 9/11 hijackers]." It also reported Umar stating he believed black inmates who converted to Islam in prison were logical recruits for committing future terrorist attacks against America. Both state and federal officials fired him in the wake of the article.
The BOP's 105 facilities hold 150,000 inmates (6 to 17 percent of them Muslim) - just a small fraction of the total U.S. prison population of 2 million. I shudder to think how al Qaeda is doing among the much larger population in the 50 state systems. In New York, Umar had free rein to hire more than 40 Muslim chaplains over 25 years.
The inspector general found that the BOP has also been lax - thanks in no small part to political correctness:
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I saw quite a bit of that among black inmates over the years.To keep them pacified-and reduce the number of lawsuits (which might have extended "prisoner rights" even further than they already had gone)prison administrators allowed them to have chaplains, and "counsellors", and special diets.(I believe the diet demanded by some Jewish inmates was the same as that furnished the Muslims.)
There was a black woman in our unit,who used to come in after hours and contact Muslim inmates. She was actually getting overtime and meal allowance - BUT - she was supposed to be working at duties related to her job - (at which she was monumentally incompetent !)
She had "protection" from the top of the food chain: a boss who was not Muslim,but who made it almost impossible to get rid of any black employee.
Eventually our "missionary" got into a stew (Sorry 'bout that !)over the fact she was receiving full welfare benefits under one ID, and working OT for us under another ID.When confronted,she simply walked out of her supervisor's office-and kept on going.
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my vanity post, related topic.
Michelle speaks!
In such a scenerio they would be turbanated.
Or videotaping potential targets, and if they're questioned about it screaming about racial profiling and anti-Moslem discrimination
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Michelle was interviewed on Fox and explained that prisons have a lot of "Nation of Islam" inmates who are ready for this terrorist indoctrination. She says what is needed is to apply religious profiling, something the wardens are affraid to do.
I get so tired of hearing that we will turn over this great country because we are affraid to discriminate in matters of life and death.
Sorry, I didn't get the memo.
A rose by any other name? You say tomato I say TA-mat-O?
Hell bud, the muslims/moslems/whatever couldn't even decide on a name for their "god". They have 99 (Qur'an 20:8). So why should I care (or you) if they are called Muslim or Moslem?
BTW, the "Ask the Imam" site I referred to in my earlier post does not contain the word "moslem" if you do a search. Only Muslim.
Islam is the opposite of religious freedom. Which was a big reason this country was founded. Since Islam wants to overthrow the US gov't it's basic core is treason.
those Washington snipers were stupid losers. imagine a few more teams of them.
Mrs VS
or maybe you should dial 1-877-why-islam. This too is a real site.
Wow...TWO great articles from Michelle. Bump and thanks!
Bump for an excellent article.
I hope that's true, because I've made a point of using lower-case moslem ever since. I think they hate 'mohammedan' or 'musselman' even worse, though, so those might be even better terms to use.
"moslem" it is then. Especially since I can't use other words I have in mind.
"Faith" based ministries.
What's the difference between 'moslem' and 'muslim'?
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