Posted on 03/22/2003 2:06:14 AM PST by sarcasm
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A chaplain at Rikers Island has been banned from counseling inmates because of his ties to a Brooklyn mosque linked to al Qaeda fund-raising.
Amin Awad, who was named president of the board of trustees at Al-Farooq mosque earlier this month, cannot have contact with inmates and has been reassigned to administrative duties, Tom Antenen, a spokesman for the city Department of Correction, said yesterday.
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7 of the 23 chaplains are muslim? Who's in charge of that?
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