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JAIL IMAM BARRED FOR 'TERROR' LINK
AP ^ | March 22, 2003

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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1 posted on 03/22/2003 2:06:14 AM PST by sarcasm
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To: sarcasm
"I'm shocked, shocked I tell you ..."

7 of the 23 chaplains are muslim? Who's in charge of that?

2 posted on 03/22/2003 2:46:47 AM PST by Checkmate
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